Gert Günther Hoffmann
Gert Günther Hoffmann was born in Berlin-Lankwitz on February 21, 1929. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he became interested in acting. He appeared in several stage plays before he started working as radio announcer for Berliner Rundfunk and as voice actor. One of his first voice works was dubbing Ben Johnson in Rio Grande (1950). Afterwards he spoke Rock Hudson, Paul Newman, Lex Barker, Michel Piccoli and Sean Connery in most of their movies. In some movies he was also the German voice of Clint Eastwood, Richard Harris, Kirk Douglas and Cary Grant. In addition to that he dubbed leading actors in many successful TV-Series, like William Shatner in Star Trek (1966), Patrick Macnee in The Avengers (1961) and Robert Culp in I Spy (1965). Hoffmann also worked as dialogue writer, dubbing director and talent scout (he discovered Thomas Danneberg in 1965). On screen he played minor as well as major roles and performed on stage in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. In the 1970s he starred as Arnold Matofski in Sonderdezernat K1 (1972). One of the most well-known German dubbing voices, the "King of Dubbing", as he was often called, died of cancer on November 17, 1997 in Feldafing near Lake Starnberg, Bavaria.
Gert Raudsep
Gert Raudsep was born on April 30, 1970 in Estonia. He is an actor, known for Kirsitubakas (2014), 1944 (2015) and Pank (2018).
Gert Voss
Gert Voss was born on October 10, 1941 in Shanghai, China. He was an actor, known for Im Labyrinth des Schweigens (2014), Radetzkymarsch (1994) and Othello, der Mohr von Venedig (1991). He was married to Ursula Voss. He died on July 13, 2014 in Vienna, Austria.
Gert Westphal
Gert Westphal was born on October 5, 1920 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Der Kinderdieb (1966), Götz von Berlichingen (1967) and Turandot (1963). He was married to Gisela Zoch. He died on November 10, 2002 in Zürich, Switzerland.
Gert Winckelmans
Gert Winckelmans was born in 1979 in Antwerp, Belgium. He is an actor, known for Ella (2010), Clan (2012) and Sara (2007).
Gert van den Bergh
Gert van den Bergh was born on October 16, 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He was an actor and writer, known for Zulu (1964), The Naked Prey (1965) and Stropers van die Laeveld (1962). He died on February 16, 1968 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Gert-Jan Dennekamp
Gert-Jan Dennekamp is known for Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World (2018).
Gerti Drassl
Gerti Drassl was born on April 13, 1978 in Bolzano, Alto Adige, Italy. She is an actress, known for Ma folie (2015), Vorstadtweiber (2015) and The Physician (2013).
Gertrude Astor
The first actress to sign a contract with Universal in 1915, Gertrude Astor (born in Ohio as Gertrude Irene Astor) began her career playing trombone and saxophone on a riverboat. Towering over most of her leading men at 5'11", she often played golddiggers, rich socialites or a leading lady's best friend in such one-reeled films and feature length silents as Polly Redhead (1917), The Price of a Good Time (1917), The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918), The Lion Man (1919), Mary Pickford's Through the Back Door (1921), The Wall Flower (1922), Alice Adams (1923), The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923), Stage Struck (1925), The Boy Friend (1926), Kiki (1926), The Strong Man (1926), Shanghaied (1927), The Cat and the Canary (1927) and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) (as Little Eva's mother). The popular female stars she bolstered included Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, Patsy Ruth Miller, Colleen Moore, Shirley Mason, Olive Borden and Laura La Plante With the advent of sound, Astor's career continued, landing her in a number of two-reel comedies, mostly with the Hal Roach studio and occasionally with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the "Our Gang" gang and Charley Chase. "I've never been so embarrassed in all my life!" seemed to be one of her most used lines in films. Acting until the 1960s and often in bit parts (she once played a corpse in The Scarlet Claw (1944), her last movie bit was for John Ford in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Astor often relayed her film memories to friends, fans and historians. At one point in her career she and actress Lilyan Tashman, were known as the most elegant and best dressed women in Hollywood. Astor died following a stroke on her 90th birthday at the Motion Piture Home in Woodland Hills.
Gertrude Hoffman
German-born Gertrude Hoffman began her film career in Germany in 1918, but she didn't start her Hollywood career until she was past 60 years of age, making her American film debut in 1933. She worked steadily and made quite a few films over the next 20 years, though many of her parts were unbilled. She is probably best remembered as Mrs. Odets, the sassy next-door neighbor to Gale Storm in My Little Margie (1952), who was always up for a "caper" in one of Margie's many crazy schemes. She died in Hollywood of a heart attack in 1966.