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Ted Rusoff | |
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| Born | May 20, 1939 Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Died | September 28, 2013 (aged 74) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, voice over artist, director, screenwriter |
Ted Rusoff (May 20, 1939 – September 28, 2013)[1][2] was a Canadian voiceover artist, actor, vocal coach, and translator specializing in the adaptation and translation from and into various languages of synchronized dialogue for the dubbing of films and cartoons.[3] Highly prolific with over 100 credits to his name, Rusoff is best remembered for his work adapting and performing English-language dialogue for countless Italian genre films.
As an actor, he had appeared in more than 70 films. Fluent in many languages, he is often called upon for work as language/accent/dialogue consultant for dubbings, theater, and cinema. He has worked many times as a stage-director for regular plays and as stage-director and music-coach for opera in houses in Marseilles, Copenhagen, Munich, Prague, Riga, Montevideo, Tokyo, Auckland, and elsewhere. He has been active as a choral director, known for his "Liebslieder Waltzes" and other choral masterpieces by Brahms, as well as the music of composers of the Baroque period.
- ^ "Ted Rusoff". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 24, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
- ^ Jones, Stephen (2014). "[Deaths]". The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Vol. 25 (Kindle ed.). Robinson. ISBN 978-1-4721-1871-4.
...died in a Rome hospital on September 28, [2013], after being hit by a care more than a month earlier. He was seventy-four.
- ^ "R.I.P. Ted Rusoff (1939–2013)". Fangoria. November 7, 2013. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
Born in 1939 in Winnipeg City of Manitoba, Canada, Ted Rusoff wasthe son of screenwriter Lou Rusoff and nephew of AIP producer Samuel Z. Arkoff, who got him his teenaged start working as an onset production assistant for AIP and uncredited film extra where needed in the late 50s to early 60s.