Rainer Basedow

Rainer Basedow (20 May 1938 – 15 May 2022) was a German film, television, and voice actor. He is known for having provided the voice of Pumbaa in the German dub of The Lion King franchise, up until his replacement with Jürgen Kluckert in The Lion Guard. He also dubbed John Belushi as Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers

Biography Born in Mühlhausen, Saxony (now Thuringia), Basedow graduated from high school in Magdeburg in 1956. As he was not allowed to study in East Germany due to "political unreliability", he fled to West Germany in 1956. He studied to be a teacher, German and sports at the . In 1961, he found his first leading role in the Beckett play Waiting for Godot in a small theatre at the Siegestor.

In 1968, he played a police officer in the cult film Go for It, Baby. Basedow played the Sergeant Dimpfelmoser in the 1974 children's film , based on the fictional character The Robber Hotzenplotz, at the side of Gert Fröbe and Josef Meinrad. From 1976 to 1995, he was a permanent member of the Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft.

Selected filmography Source:

(1967) (1968) Lina Braake (1975) The Clown (1976) Potato Fritz (1976) Caipiranha (1998)