Ami Mandelman (Hebrew: עמי ×ž× ×"למן‎; born August 24, 1950)
is an Israeli actor, voice actor and singer.Mandelman was born in
Haifa to Polish immigrants who fled to Israel in the 1930s. Having
grown up during the austerity period, his parents could not afford
music lessons, so they sent him to study musical instruments with a
private tutor, mainly the accordion and the guitar. Mandelman became
more engaged in music during his teen years and was highly influenced
by The Beatles. In 1975, Mandelman formed the band Hakol Over Habibi
alongside Shlomit Aharon, Kiki Rothstein and Yuval Dor, which was
active until 2002.Mandelman is also heavily active as a voice dubber.
He is best known for providing the Hebrew voices of Pumbaa in The Lion
King and Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants. He also dubbed some
characters in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation until 2003 when these
roles were passed on to Efron Etkin in the follow-up series. Other
roles include dubbing Goofy since 1989 and some of the major Looney
Tunes characters since Space Jam. He has also served as a dubbing
director for the Hebrew dubbing of films such as Shrek.
is an Israeli actor, voice actor and singer.Mandelman was born in
Haifa to Polish immigrants who fled to Israel in the 1930s. Having
grown up during the austerity period, his parents could not afford
music lessons, so they sent him to study musical instruments with a
private tutor, mainly the accordion and the guitar. Mandelman became
more engaged in music during his teen years and was highly influenced
by The Beatles. In 1975, Mandelman formed the band Hakol Over Habibi
alongside Shlomit Aharon, Kiki Rothstein and Yuval Dor, which was
active until 2002.Mandelman is also heavily active as a voice dubber.
He is best known for providing the Hebrew voices of Pumbaa in The Lion
King and Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants. He also dubbed some
characters in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation until 2003 when these
roles were passed on to Efron Etkin in the follow-up series. Other
roles include dubbing Goofy since 1989 and some of the major Looney
Tunes characters since Space Jam. He has also served as a dubbing
director for the Hebrew dubbing of films such as Shrek.
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