María Dolores Gispert Guart
María Dolores Gispert Guart | |
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Born | Barcelona, Spain | 22 March 1934
Died | 20 July 2018 Barcelona, Spain | (aged 84)
Occupation | Actress |
María Dolores Gispert Guart (22 March 1934 – 20 July 2018) was a Spanish actress, director and radio personality, known for being the Spanish voice of Whoopi Goldberg and Pippi Longstocking.[1]
Biography
[edit]She came from a family of artists on her mother's side: her grandparents, Carlos Guart and Carmen Martínez-Illescas, and her mother Enriqueta Guart Martínez-Illescas were theater actors. With her mother she worked on the work Don Juan Tenorio, in 1972.[2]
She began her radio career as an announcer at "Radio Barcelona". In the mid-1940s she started working on film dubbing.[3]
In the 1970s, she was the voice of Pippi Longstocking. In the 1980s, she voiced Sarah Douglas in the V series, and in the 1990s, she doubled the character of Estelle in the series Friends.[4]
She was famous for lending her voice to a number of Hollywood actresses: Whoopi Goldberg, in fifty-one of her films; Kathy Bates, in five movies; Carole Lombard, Darlene Love, and Joanna Cassidy among others.
She was also dubbing director in The Color Purple and Schindler's List.[5]
Filmography and animated series
[edit]- Treasure Island (1950 film)
- The Night of the Hunter (film)
- I Confess (film)
- Irma la Douce
- Bonnie and Clyde (film)
- A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
- Shima Shima Tora no Shimajiro
- Play It Again, Sam (film)
- Grease (film)
- Blade Runner
- The Goonies
- The Color Purple (film)
- Titanic (1997 film)
- Ghost (1990 film)
- Charlotte's Web (2006 film)
- The Lion King
- Sister Act
References
[edit]- ^ Gispert, María Dolores (in Spanish)
- ^ Mor la dobladora Maria Dolors Gispert, la veu de Whoopi Goldberg (in Catalan)
- ^ Muere María Dolores Gispert, la voz en español de Whoppi Goldberg y Pippi Calzaslargas (in Spanish)
- ^ Fallece la actriz de doblaje María Dolores Gispert, inconfundible voz española de Whoopi Goldberg (in Spanish)
- ^ Muere «la voz» de Pippi Calzaslargas y Whoppi Goldberg (in Spanish)