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Yevhen Shakh, Ukraine’s Voice of Dumbledore, Dies at 80. He Gave Almost Sixty Years to One Kyiv Stage
Yevhen Shakh, the Ukrainian actor whose voice millions of viewers heard as Albus Dumbledore in the Ukrainian dub of the Harry Potter films, has died at 80. He spent almost sixty years in the company of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre in Kyiv, and for a generation of Ukrainian cinemagoers he was also the voice of Admiral Ackbar, Waldorf and Uncle Ben.
Shakh died on 13 November, the Franko Theatre announced on its Facebook page. The theatre didn't give a cause of death. Ukraine's main news outlets, from TSN and UNIAN to ZN.ua and Fakty, led their reports with the same line: the man who had given Dumbledore his Ukrainian voice was gone.
In its statement, translated here by Voice Over Herald, the theatre remembered him first as a person: "There are people whose presence makes life brighter, not with loud words or grand gestures, but with their kindness, their sincerity, their ability to be there, to support, to make people laugh, to give warmth even on the hardest days. That is how we will always remember our friend and colleague, People's Artist of Ukraine Yevhen Shakh."
