Arnold Marquis was a German actor and voice talent

Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.Performers are called...

. He was one of the best known and most frequently used dubbing voices

Dubbing (filmmaking)

Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers, who may be...

of Germany.

Arnold Marquis was the German record holder of dubbing. During his career he provided speaking parts for more than 800 voices in the German-language versions of international films. His distinctive gravelly voice became associated with many international film stars, among them John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, George C. Scott, Yves Montand, Lino Ventura, Trevor Howard, Bud Spencer, Jack Klugman, and Lee Marvin.

He was married three times and had a daughter called Gwendolyn. He died of lung cancer in Berlin, Germany.