Rainer Schmitt

Rainer Schmitt (born 1948 in Koblenz) is a German voice actor, who provides voices for the German version of Thomas & Friends.

He is best known for perforiming voiceovers for various radio plays and appearing in German films and television shows, including "Larry Brent", "Didi in Full Swing", and "The Blind Judge". He is also known for voicing Jack the Ripper from "Soul Eater", Donatello from the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Fletcher Stone from "House", and Hidan from "Naruto: Shippuden".

Voices

• Stephen (King of the Railway only)
• Bert (fifteenth season onwards)
• Flynn
• Bertie (seventeenth season only)

Trivia

• He dubbed over Alec Baldwin on the film "She's Having a Baby".
• He, along with Bin Shimada and Hidenari Ugaki voiced Donatello from the 1987 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series in their respective languages.
  • Hiroko Emori, Daiki Nakamura, Hideyuki Umezu, Dariusz Odija, Håkan Mohede, Herman López, Achim Schülke, Reinder van der Naalt, Luis Alfonso Mendoza, Toshiharu Sakurai, Jorge Santos, Marion von Stengel, Masayuki Omoro, Simcha Barbiro, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Tomohiro Nishimura, Talya Barkay, Gérard Boucaron, Kenji Utsumi, Naoki Tatsuta, Kiyonobu Suzuki and Jorge Roig have all worked on the 1987 version of the franchise. There have also been several other people that have worked on other parts of the franchise:
    • Alan Prieto, Yehonatan Magon, Javier Olguín, Ricardo Bautista, Tim Kreuer, Mia Kadosh, Józef Pawłowski, Gadi Levy, Tzvika Shwartzberg, Shōto Kashii, Hiroshi Tsuchida, Talya Barkay ("again"), Elise Langenoja, Raúl Solo and Sukekiyo Kameyama ("the 2012 version").
    • Hidenari Ugaki (again), Yohei Nishina, Jan-David Rönfeldt, Stig Krogstad, Samuel Harjanne, Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Kiyonobu Suzuki, Kunihiro Kawamoto, Denis Bespalyy, Ryūji Nakagi, Saar Badishi, Daisuke Gōri, Takafumi Kawakami, Tzvika Shwartzberg, Shōto Kashii, Santiago Ziesmer, Kenji Utsumi and Dariusz Odija ("the 2003 version").
    • Helmut Krauss, Yehonatan Magon ("again"), Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Piotr Bajtlik, César Árias, Karina Altamirano, Pasi Ruohonen, Caspar Phillipson, ("again") Alan Prieto, ("again") Oliver Rohrbeck, Víctor Ugarte, Albert Cohen, Mireya Mendoza and Yigal Mizrachi ("the films").
• Both he and Kōichi Sakaguchi voiced Jack the Ripper from "Soul Eater" in their respective languages.
• He voiced the title character of "Sherlock Yack – Zoo-Détectiv". Burkhard Schmeer, Joey Cordevin, Merete Brettschneider, Till Huster, Oliver Böttcher, Kai-Henrik Möller, Martin May, Lennardt Krüger, Anne Moll, Dagmar Dreke, Robert Missler and Jürgen Holdorf had roles as well.
• He, Henning Nöhren, Lennardt Krüger, Christian Stark, Tobias Schmidt, Christian Rudolf, Fabian Harloff, Robert Kotulla, Konstantin Graudus, Merete Brettschneider, Tim Kreuer, Oliver Böttcher, Robert Missler, Patrick Bach, Jürgen Holdorf, Jan-David Rönfeldt, Joshy Peters, Sascha Draeger, Michael Bideller, Joey Cordevin, Christos Topoulos, Volker Hanisch, Nils Rieke, Peter Weis, Jens Wendland, Martin May, Bernd Stephan, Robin Brosch, Eberhard Haar, Angela Quast, Kai-Henrik Möller, Achim Schülke, Sonja Stein, Marion von Stengel, Jesse Grimm, Henry König, Lutz Herkenrath, Dagmar Dreke, Knud Riepen, Gerhart Hinze, Erik Schäffler, Jennifer Böttcher, Joachim Kretzer, Manuela Bäcker, Daniel Welbat and Achim Buch have worked on "Naruto".
• He, Albrecht Ganskopf, Konstantin Graudus, Knud Riepen, Tobias Diakow, Martin May, Achim Buch, Henning Nöhren, Tim Grobe, Benjamin Morik, Judy Winter, Henry König, Charlotte Hedwig, Margret Homeyer, Jürgen Uter, Douglas Welbat, Lutz Herkenrath, Michael Weckler, Robin Brosch, Achim Schülke, Marek Erhardt, Holger Mahlich, Werner Cartano, Sky du Mont, Klaus Sonnenschein, Volker Bogdan, Jörg Gillner, Manfred Steffen, Christian Brückner, Erik Schäffler, Burkhard Schmeer, Christian Rudolf, Frank Schröder, Oliver Warsitz, Peter Weis, Marie-Luise Schramm, Wilfried Herbst, Fabian Harloff, Oliver Böttcher, Robert Kotulla, Helmut Krauss, Christian Stark, Lutz Harder, Anne Moll, Marion von Stengel, Renate Pichler, Matthias Klimsa and Eckart Dux have all worked on "Tatort".
• He, Holger Mahlich, Thomas Fritsch, Dirk Bach, Patrick Bach, Robin Brosch, Sascha Draeger, Konstantin Graudus, Eberhard Haar, Fabian Harloff, Lutz Herkenrath, Till Huster, Henry König, Helmut Krauss, Martin May, Tetje Mierendorf, Robert Missler, Sky Du Mont, Renate Pichler, Christian Rudolf, Tobias Schmidt, Achim Schülke, Christian Stark, Bernd Stephan, Manfred Steffen, Marion von Stengel, Peter Weis and Santiago Ziesmer had roles in "The Three Investigators".
• Schmitt, Harloff, Stengel, Kotulla, May, Nadine Schreier, Bäcker, Peters, Bideller, Dreager, Schmidt, Grimm, Holdorf and Hanisch provided voices for "Soul Eater".
• Schmitt, Stein, Kristina von Weltzien, Katja Brügger, Schmidt, Mahlich, Buch, Schäffler, Pahl, Moll, Missler, Stark and Rieke appeared in "H2O Just add Water".
• He, Schreier, (Patrick) Bach, Nöhren, Draeger, Schmidt, Schäffler, Rieke, Harloff, Kreuer, Mahlich, Graudus, Moll, Hanisch, Cordevin, Weltzien, (Oliver) Böttcher, Wendland, Brosch, Rönfeldt, Martin Brücker, Monika Hein, Pahl, Holmes, Stark, Buch, Mierendorf, Riepen, Burkhard Schmeer and Brügger had roles in "Dance Academy".
• Schmitt, Graudus, Stengel, Rönfeldt, Schmidt, Weltzien and Schäffler appeared in "Minotaurus".