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Peter Groeger (1 June 1933 in
Gröbzig Gröbzig () is a town and a former municipality in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 September 2010, it is part of the town Südliches Anhalt. It is situated southwest of the district capital of Köthen (Anhalt ...
,
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 – 16 January 2018 in
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) was a German actor and director.


Life

Groeger grew up in Gröbzig. He was assistant director at Wolfgang Langhoff at the Deutsches Theater. After a study of direction in
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, he came to the radio broadcast of the
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, where he was responsible for foreign radio plays as Head of International Radio Drama. Peter Groeger became well-known mainly through his numerous radio drama productions and as a voice actor of the bartender Quark (Armin Shimerman) in the science fiction series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. From 1973 to 1978, he was seen as MAD-man Roloff within the first 14 episodes of the TV series ''Das unsichtbare Visier''. In 1996, he served as Richard Graf # 2 look at ''Good Times, Bad Times''. From 1998 to 2002 he played the character of Dr. Iron Wire in several commercials for the fuel station chain
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. From August 2009, he was again seen in this role, this time in similarly designed commercials for energy supplier
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. From 1998 to 2007 he took over the role of the director Schwalbe in the TV series ''Anja & Anton''. Since 2004 he has also been in the
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radio play of the publishing group Hermann, heard in the role of Dr. Watson alongside Holmes spokesman Christian Rode. To fantasy fans he is also known as dubbing voice of the Dwarves Forgrimm from the computer games '' The Dark Eye: Drakensang'' The Dark Eye and '' Drakensang: The River of Time''. In addition, he was also the narrator in the Drakensang radio plays. Since 2009, he also spoke some minor roles in the '' Radio Tatort'' of the
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. Since 2007 he was part of the ensemble of the Berlin Criminal Theatre, where he appeared in ''Arsenic and Old Lace'', ''The Name of the Rose'' and ''Inspector Campbell's Last Case''.


Filmography (selection)

* 1956: Zwischenfall in Benderath * 1959: Nasreddin und der Wucherer (TV) * 1963: Blaulicht: Heißes Geld (TV series) * 1966: Die Reise nach Sundevit * 1972: Polizeiruf 110: Blütenstaub (TV series) * 1975–1978: Das unsichtbare Visier (TV series) * 1983: Abends im Kelch (TV) * 1984: Polizeiruf 110: Das vergessene Labor (TV series) * 1986: Polizeiruf 110: Parkplatz der Liebe (TV series) * 1992: Blinky Bill der Film * 1993–2004:
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(TV series) * 1996:
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(TV series) * 1998: Walli, die Eisfrau (TV) * 1998–2006: Anja & Anton (TV series) * 1999: Die letzte Chance (TV) * 1999–2001:
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(TV series, German dub) * 2005: Blinky Bill’s Weiße Weihnacht (TV movie) * 2008:
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, episode ''Alle für einen'' (TV series) * since 2010: Blue Bloods – Crime Scene New York (''Blue Bloods'', TV series)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Groeger, Peter 1933 births 2018 deaths East German actors German male radio actors German male television actors German male video game actors German male voice actors People from Südliches Anhalt People from the Free State of Anhalt Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany Male actors from Saxony-Anhalt