Gottfried John

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-08-29 (72 years old)

Deathday

2014-09-01

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Gottfried John

Biography

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...

Acting

1981

Lili Marleen

as Aaron

1979

1995

GoldenEye

as Colonel Ourumov

1993

Abraham

as Eliezer

1988

Schön war die Zeit

as Franz Bauer

2009

John Rabe

as Dr. Oskar Trautmann

1998

Glatteis

as Kurt Wallmann

1978

2005

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

as Dr. Emmanuel Droz

1996

The Ogre

as Chief Forester

1985

Mata Hari

as Wolff

2010

Life Is Too Long

as Georg Maria Stahl

1978

Fedora

as Kritos

2000

Mary Magdalene

as Erode Antipa

1990

2006

A Pirate's Heart

as Konrad von Wallenrod

2013

Ruby Red

as Dr. White

1977

1971

Carlos

as Carlos

1978

Despair

as Perebrodov

2013

A World Beyond

as Dr. Jan Kersebohm

1995

1985

Otto - The Movie

as Sonnemann

2008

The Papal Council

as Paolo Naldini

1998

Mein zweites Leben

as Richard Keller

1993

2003

Sams in Gefahr

as School Inspector

1978

1982: Gutenbach

as Peter Kessel

1990

Wings of Fame

as Zlatogorski

2004

2009

Black Flowers

as Curtis

2012

2003

Entrusted

as Thomas von Gall - grandfather

1991

Elfenbein

as Nicholas Messier

1975

2010

Aghet

as Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein

1994

Deadly Web

as Kommissar Max Beckmann

2016

Emerald Green

as Dr. White (archive footage)

1987

Pattberg's Legacy

as Ulrich Vogtmann

1983

1985

1991

1992

The Mistake

as Jacob Alain

1998

2007

Flood

as Arthur Moyes

2007

Das zweite Leben

as Robert Kreutzer

1994

Die Zeit danach

as man from Klagenfurt

1987

Der Fall Franza

as Captain

1979

Die Ratten

as Bruno Mechelke

1984

Chinese Boxes

as Zwemmer

2002

Best Ever Bond

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1993

2009

Rumpelstilzchen

as König Gustav

1978

Marija

as Filipp

2000

Proof of Life

as Eric Kessler

1985

Verworrene Bilanzen

as Karl M. Kronen

2002

The Gathering Storm

as Friedrich von Schroder

1999

1986

Of Pure Blood

as Paul Bergmann

2004

Cowgirl

as Hans Krahl

1998

Am I Beautiful?

as Herbert

1994

Ein letzter Wille

as Paul Elling

1984

2004

Renzo e Lucia

as Innominato

2005

Julie, chevalier de Maupin

as Henri, duc d'Armagnac

1996

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