Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1924-03-15 (73 years old)
Deathday
1997-05-05
Place of Birth
Bonn, Germany
Also known As
Walter Jack Gotell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Gotell (15 March 1926 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the James Bond film series. Gotell was born in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn (1943). He began to have more established roles by the early fifties, starring in The African Queen (1951), Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), 55 Days At Peking (1963), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), The Spy Wh...
1952
as Second Officer
1963
as Morzeny
1977
as General Anatol Gogol
1981
as General Anatol Gogol
1983
as Gogol
1985
as General Gogol
1987
as General Anatol Gogol
1980
as Jack Brewster
1997
as Erik the Old
1962
as Dr. Zorbb
1977
as Col. Lamont
1992
as General Mueller
1988
as Uncle John
1960
as Baron Von Gruber
1943
as Luftwaffe Captain
1991
1969
as George Leeds
1977
as Colonel Riat
1962
as Major Holland
1978
as Ben Khaled
1985
as Nabokov
1968
as Van Horst
1960
as Phoney Ballard
2022
as General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited)
1953
as Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
1943
as Hans
1959
as Hamburg inspector
1986
as Rabbi Goteyel
1950
as Director of Propaganda
1950
as Prison Officer
1959
as 'Black & Tans' Sergeant
1972
as Schmidt
2012
as Uncle John (archive footage)
1954
as Jim
1979
as General Gogol
1986
as Efraim Grüner
1960
as Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
1965
as Captain of Patna
1985
as Nicholai
2002
as General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited)
1948
as uncredited
1988
as Self (archive footage)
2002
as General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979
as Simmons
1985
as General Zedd
1989
as Foreigner
1961
as Muesel
1951
as Luzatto
1956
as Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
1958
as 1st German Officer
1963
as Sir Cedric
1962
as German Soldier (uncredited)
1978
as Mundt
1983
as Gen. Max Helm
1983
as Storvesiren
1979
as Don Jose Pulido
1984
as Sgt. Asim
1953
as German Sentry
1968
as Ronan
1942
as Lieutenant Langfeld
2018
as Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
as General Mueller (archive footage)
2000
1953
as Feldwebel
1956
as Guard (uncredited)
1960
as Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
1942
as SS Guard
1958
as Profuno
1955
as German Officer on Tirpitz
1950
as François - The Follower
1961
as Oberinspektor Whiteside
1972
as Constantine
1958
as German Colonel
1977
as Frankenheimer
1959
as Azhad Khan
1963
as Capt. Hoffman
1964
1965
as Holten (uncredited)
1980
as Anchell
1955
as Police Constable (uncredited)
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