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name: "Samuel Ramey"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 March 1942"
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average_as: "actor"
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# Samuel Ramey

Actor. Born 28 March 1942 in Colby, Kansas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 March 1942, Colby, Kansas, USA
- **Active:** 1984–2014
- **Also known as:** صموئيل رامي
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 91 (1), 2010s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ramey, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q951556, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0708211/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1028318

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Over the Garden Wall*](https://film.one/tv/over-the-garden-wall.md) (86)

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## Biography

Samuel Ramey is an American operatic bass and voice actor. Born on 28 March 1942 in Colby, Kansas, he studied music at Kansas State University and Wichita State University.

He performed leading bass roles at major opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala and the Royal Opera House. Ramey is known for his recordings and stage appearances in works by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Meyerbeer.

He provided the singing voice of Figaro in the 1984 film *Amadeus* and voiced The Beast in the 2014 animated miniseries *Over the Garden Wall*, also performing the song "Come Wayward Souls".

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, screenrant.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Over the Garden Wall* (2014), Fi1m 86, as The Beast (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/over-the-garden-wall.md)
- *Amadeus* (1984), Fi1m 91, as Figaro in 'The Marriage of Figaro' (singing voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Turandot - Wichita Grand Opera* (2015), Acting
- *Over the Garden Wall* (2014), series, as The Beast (voice) — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/over-the-garden-wall.md)
- *Puccini: Turandot* (2009), as Timur
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine* (2009), as Rambaldo
- *Natalie Dessay & Rolando Villazón - Massenet: Manon* (2007), as Comte des Grieux
- *Nabucco* (2001), as Zaccaria
- *Don Quichotte* (2000), as Don Quichotte
- *Les contes d'Hoffmann - Teatro alla Scalla* (1996), as Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto
- *Faust* (1995), as Méphistophélès
- *On the Town* (1993), as Pitkin
- *I Lombardi - The Met* (1993), as Pagano
- *Don Carlo* (1992), as Filippo II
- *Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress* (1992), as Nick Shadow
- *Attila* (1991), as Attila
- *Semiramide* (1990), as Assur
- *Don Giovanni* (1990), as Don Giovanni
- *Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met)* (1989), as Bluebeard
- *Mefistofele* (1989), as Mefistofele
- *Carmen* (1988), as Escamillo
- *Don Giovanni* (1987), as Don Giovanni
- *Macbeth* (1987), as Banco (voice)
- *Verdi Macbeth Chailly* (1987), as Banquo
- *Robert le Diable* (1985), as Bertram
- *Amadeus* (1984), as Figaro in 'The Marriage of Figaro' (singing voice) — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/amadeus.md)
- *Il viaggio a Reims* (1984), as Lord Sidney
- *New York City Opera: The Barber of Seville* (1976), as Basilio
- *Great Performances* (1971), series, as Mefistofele

## Gallery

- ![Samuel Ramey](https://film.one/media/person/361245/gallery-76eaf2cd2f03.jpg) Samuel Ramey — Olivia Lazalde Valdez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Samuel_Ramey_como_Argante.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Samuel Ramey](https://film.one/media/person/361245/gallery-bb2f74c5e4cc.jpg) Samuel Ramey — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Kansas Music Hall of Fame 2017: Kansas Music Hall of Fame (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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