Wolfgang Ziffer

Wolfgang Ziffer was a German actor from Wuppertal.
Like a number of people in the voice acting industry, Ziffer was rarely seen live on film or television. Examples of his roles include Roger Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Calimero in Calimero, Digit in An American Tail, Gulliver the Raven in Benjamin the Elephant, and Iago the Parrot in Aladdin. He frequently voices robot characters such as Number 5 in Short Circuit, V.I.N.CENT in The Black Hole, and C-3PO in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series), Star Wars Rebels and in the German radio plays Labyrinth des Bösen - 2007, - and Dark Lord. He is also the voice of Jonathan Livingston Seagull in the film bearing the same name.
He was the original German voice of J. Thaddeus Toad in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, though the 1993 dub has him voiced by Joachim Kaps.
In the TV series Riptide, Ziffer dubs over the character of Murray 'Boz' Bozinsky. Additionally, he dubs over Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes.
Ziffer lived in Berlin, and was married to actress Edeltraud Elsner. He is the father of voice actress Julia Ziffer.