María Dolores Gispert Guart

María Dolores Gispert Guart (22 March 1934 – 20 July 2018) was a Spanish voice actress, radio personality and director of dubbing, known for being the Spanish voice of Whoopi Goldberg and Pippi Longstocking.[1]

This article uses Catalan naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Gispert and the second or maternal family name is Guart.
María Dolores Gispert
Born(1934-03-22)22 March 1934
Barcelona, Spain
Died20 July 2018(2018-07-20) (aged 84)
Barcelona, Spain
OccupationVoice actress and radio personality

Biography

She came from a family of artists on behalf of the mother: her grandparents, Carlos Guart and Carmen Martínez-Illescas, and her mother Enriqueta Guart Martínez-Illescas were theater actors. With his mother he 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 seventies, she was the voice of Pippi Longstocking. In the eighties she doubled Sarah Douglas in the V series; and in the nineties, in the series Friends, she doubled the character of Estelle, the representative of Joey Tribbiani.[4]

She was very 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 director of dubbing in The Color Purple, or Schindler's List.[5]

Filmography

References
  1. Gispert, María Dolores (in Spanish)
  2. Mor la dobladora Maria Dolors Gispert, la veu de Whoopi Goldberg (in Catalan)
  3. Muere María Dolores Gispert, la voz en español de Whoppi Goldberg y Pippi Calzaslargas (in Spanish)
  4. Fallece la actriz de doblaje María Dolores Gispert, inconfundible voz española de Whoopi Goldberg (in Spanish)
  5. Muere «la voz» de Pippi Calzaslargas y Whoppi Goldberg (in Spanish)
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