Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1942-08-29 (72 years old)
Deathday
2014-09-01
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Also known As
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Gottfried John (German: [ˈjoːn];[1] 29 August 1942 – 1 September 2014) was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in many of the filmmaker's projects between 1975 and his death in 1982, including Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun , and Berlin Alexanderplatz. His distinctive, gaunt appearance saw him he frequently cast as villains, and he is best known to audiences for his role as the corrupt General Arkady Orumov in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and for his comedic turn as Julius Caesar in Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar, the latter f...
1981
as Aaron
1979
as Willi Klenze
1995
as Colonel Ourumov
1993
as Eliezer
1988
as Franz Bauer
2009
as Dr. Oskar Trautmann
1998
as Kurt Wallmann
1999
as Jules César
1995
as Herr Benjamenta
1978
as Anton Saitz
2005
as Dr. Emmanuel Droz
1996
as Chief Forester
1985
as Wolff
2010
as Georg Maria Stahl
1978
as Kritos
2000
as Erode Antipa
1990
as Hofer
2006
as Konrad von Wallenrod
2013
as Dr. White
1977
as Finkelberger
1971
as Carlos
1978
as Perebrodov
2013
as Dr. Jan Kersebohm
1995
as Renato Calvi
1985
as Sonnemann
2008
as Paolo Naldini
1998
as Richard Keller
1993
as Collani
2003
as School Inspector
1971
as Jaider
1978
as Peter Kessel
1990
as Zlatogorski
2004
as Aldo Caldini
2009
as Curtis
2012
as Jo
2003
as Thomas von Gall - grandfather
1991
as Nicholas Messier
1975
as Jörg Niemeyer
1979
as Clemens Koch
2010
as Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein
1994
as Kommissar Max Beckmann
2016
as Dr. White (archive footage)
1987
as Ulrich Vogtmann
1983
as Petritschenko
1985
as Brocke
1991
as Robert Dallburg
1992
as Jacob Alain
1998
as Richard Keller
2007
as Arthur Moyes
2007
as Robert Kreutzer
1994
as man from Klagenfurt
1987
as Captain
1979
as Bruno Mechelke
1984
as Zwemmer
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996
as Kommissar Beckmann
1993
as Sophies Vater
2009
as König Gustav
1978
as Filipp
2000
as Eric Kessler
1985
as Karl M. Kronen
2002
as Friedrich von Schroder
1998
as Self
1962
1999
as Count Hanska
1986
as Paul Bergmann
1999
as Max Beckmann
2004
as Hans Krahl
2002
as Martin Krohn
1998
as Herbert
1994
as Paul Elling
1984
1990
as Rodimstev
2004
as Innominato
2005
as Henri, duc d'Armagnac
1985
as Bartolomé de las Casas
1996
as Michele Wolf
2003
as Cicero
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