| Salma El-Sharkawy |
American actor, born on April 15, 1917, in Baltimore, Maryland, US, as Hans Georg Conried Jr. He studied acting at Columbia University and went on to play major classical roles onstage. He also made appearances in radio, TV, and cinema productions. His distinctive voice made him a popular radio performer during the 1930s and 1940s, and in the following four decades he had a successful second career providing voices for animated feature films and television productions. He is known for providing the voices of "Captain Hook" in Peter Pan (1953), "Thorin Oakenshield" in The Hobbit (1977), and "The Grinch" in It's Grinch Night (1977). He received a Star on the Walk of Fame in 1960 and a Winsor McCay Award in 1978. He was married to Margaret Grant , with whom he had four children with and stayed together till he died on January 5, 1982, from a heart attack in Burbank, California, USA.
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