# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rainer-basedow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:38:46.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rainer-basedow"
name: "Rainer Basedow"
slug: "rainer-basedow"
description: "Rainer Basedow was a German film, television, and voice actor. He is known for having provided the voice of Pumbaa in the German dub of The Lion King franchise, up until his replacement with Jürgen Kluckert in The Lion Guard. He also dubbed John Belushi as Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers and Ron Donachie as Sergeant Harley in The Jungle Book."
tagline: "German film, television, and voice actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rainer_Basedow.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1938-05-20"
deathDate: "2022-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3917910447761193
  historical:           10.62948933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059704/"
    handle:    "nm0059704"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Basedow"
    title: "Rainer Basedow"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4%EB%84%88_%EB%B0%94%EC%A0%9C%EB%8F%84"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump