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Debbi Besserglick
Born
Dvora Besserglick

(1955-11-19)November 19, 1955
Jaffa, Israel
DiedMarch 10, 2005(2005-03-10) (aged 49)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Occupation(s)Actress, voice actress, theatre director, dramatist
Years active1986–2005

Debbi Besserglick (Hebrew: דבי בסרגליק; November 19, 1955 – March 10, 2005) was an Israeli actress and voice actress.[1]

Biography

Born in Jaffa, Besserglick studied at Tel Aviv University and the Levinsky College of Education. She then went on to become an actress, usually working in the theatre or television. She starred in and even directed theatre adaptions of musical plays such as My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music and West Side Story yet she was also a film and television actress. Her most popular filmography included the 1997 black-comedy film The 92 Minutes of Mr. Baum and the 1998 film Buzz. Besserglick also starred in the children's television show BeSod HaYinyanim in which she appeared in an office sketch with Ruby Porat Shoval.[2]

Besserglick was also successful as a voice actress. She was well known for voicing the title character in the Hebrew dub of the children's animated show Arthur.[3] She also provided the Hebrew voices of many characters such as Virulina in Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Widow Tweed from The Fox and the Hound, Grandmother Fa in Mulan II, Pearl in Home on the Range, Timon's mother in The Lion King 1½, Mama Gunda in Tarzan II and many other animated films and cartoons.

Death

Besserglick died of cancer on March 10, 2005, at the age of 49 and she was interred at Yarkon Cemetery. The Hebrew voice of Arthur Read was passed on to Shiri Gadni.[4]

References

  1. ^ Debbi Besserglick's filmography (in Hebrew)
  2. ^ "בסוד העניינים" (in Hebrew). 23tv.co.il. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  3. ^ נדיר ריד ארתור של הדיבוב מאחורי
  4. ^ "10 עובדות שלא ידעתם על "ארתור"" (in Hebrew). magazine.hot.net.il. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
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