Michael Pan

Michael Pan (formerly: Michael Nathan) was born on in Madrid, Spain. He is a Spanish-German actor, voice actor, singer, and radio spokesman.

Biography
Michael Pan's father was the cabaret artist and chansonnier Peter Pan alias Alfred Nathan, who had emigrated to Spain because of the National Socialist regime. Michael Pan was born there in 1952. In 1957 the family moved to Germany. At the invitation of the actor Ernst Busch, Peter Pan moved to East Berlin in 1958. It was here that his son Michael made his stage debut alongside Busch in 1960 at the age of eight at the Berliner Ensemble in a performance of Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo.

Theater
In the following years Pan worked as a child actor at the Berliner Ensemble and the Volksbühne. In 1970 he began studying acting at the Ernst Busch State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide, which he completed in 1973. Engagements in Berlin and Gera followed. In 1974 Pan moved to the Deutsches Theater Berlin, in whose ensemble he stayed until 1989. He also acted in the local pantomime ensemble. In addition, he gave guest performances at the Maxim Gorki Theater and at the German State Opera in Berlin. In 1987, Pan submitted an application for release from citizenship of the GDR, which was granted two years later. Since then he has been working as a freelance artist on various Berlin stages and revues

Television
Pan made his feature film debut as early as 1962 with the family comedy Igelfreundschaft. He also played a permanent role alongside Helga Göring in the television series A Room with a View, in several comedies about Maxe Baumann ( Gerd E. Schäfer ), in the television film Der Lude about Horst Wessel , alongside Meret Becker in the crime thriller 12 o'clock and made guest appearances in TV series such as The Public Prosecutor Has the Word , Nikola , SOKO Leipzig and Polizeiruf 110 ( hereinafter information in Braillehe was seen as a police lieutenant). In the socially critical television play Zwei Freunde in Preußen or Whether a noble Jew is something unusual about anti-Semitism and the friendship between Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (portrayed by Jan Spitzer ) and Moses Mendelssohn, Pan embodied the philosopher who is considered a role model for Lessing's Nathan.

Voice Acting
Pan achieved fame through his voice. As a voice actor, he lent his voice to international fellow actors, including Christian Clavier and Clovis Cornillac in the Asterix films, Martin Short (including Mars Attacks !, Damages and Alice in Wonderland ), David Hyde Pierce in the comedy series Frasier , Ryo Saeba in the Anime series City Hunter , Gavin MacLeod on the Mary Tyler Moore Show , Hugh Laurie in Peter's Friends , Peter Scolariin the series version of Darling, I've Shrunk the Children , Dilbert in the animated series Dilbert and Brent Spiner as Lt. Cmdr. Data in Spaceship Enterprise: The Next Century and Star Trek: Picard , as well as the Star Trek movies Star Trek: Meetings of Generations , Star Trek: First Contact , Star Trek: The Uprising and Star Trek: Nemesis. He also gives Taelon Zo'or his voice in the Roddenberry creation Earth Final Conflict. In the American seriesSupernatural he speaks the Archangel Gabriel and other supporting actors. He dubbed several small roles in Ninjago, but peaked with the role of Master Chen in Season 4.

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