Jeff Burrell

Jeff Burrell is an American actor born in Staten Island, New York. After graduating from New York’s High School Performing Arts he went on to get a B.A. in German Studies from Oberlin College. A Fulbright Scholarship brought him to East Berlin’s “Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch”” in 1990. In 1994 he received an MfA in acting. From1994 – 2000 he was part of the ensemble in the Staatstheater in Halle / Saale, performing, among other roles, the iconic Karl Moor in Friedrich Schiller’s “”The Robbers.”” Jeff has been based in Berlin and free-lancing since 2000. In addition to acting in numerous German and international films, Jeff works regularly as a voice-over artist, lending his voice to copious animated films and television series, speaking news for Deutsche Welle TV, as well as working from time to time with orchestras; eg. Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker.”

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Race

In the 1930s, Jesse Owens is a young man who is the first in his family to go to college. Going to Ohio State to train under its track and field coach, Larry Snyder, the young African American athlete quickly impresses with his tremendous potential that suggests Olympic material. However,…

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