Walter Gotell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1924-03-15 (73 years old)

Deathday

1997-05-05

Place of Birth

Bonn, Germany

Walter Gotell

Biography

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...

Acting

1952

The African Queen

as Second Officer

1963

1977

The Spy Who Loved Me

as General Anatol Gogol

1981

For Your Eyes Only

as General Anatol Gogol

1983

Octopussy

as Gogol

1985

A View to a Kill

as General Gogol

1987

The Living Daylights

as General Anatol Gogol

1980

Cry of the Innocent

as Jack Brewster

1997

Prince Valiant

as Erik the Old

1962

1977

March or Die

as Col. Lamont

1992

Puppet Master III

as General Mueller

1960

Circus of Horrors

as Baron Von Gruber

1943

We Dive at Dawn

as Luftwaffe Captain

1969

1977

Black Sunday

as Colonel Riat

1962

The Damned

as Major Holland

1978

The Stud

as Ben Khaled

1985

Basic Training

as Nabokov

1968

1960

Circle of Deception

as Phoney Ballard

2022

Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror

as General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited)

1953

Desperate Moment

as Ravitch's Servant-Henchman

1943

1959

The Treasure of San Teresa

as Hamburg inspector

1986

Liberty

as Rabbi Goteyel

1950

Lilli Marlene

as Director of Propaganda

1950

Cairo Road

as Prison Officer

1959

Shake Hands with the Devil

as 'Black & Tans' Sergeant

1972

Our Miss Fred

as Schmidt

2012

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor

as Uncle John (archive footage)

1979

Moonraker

as General Gogol

1986

Henry's Shadow

as Efraim Grüner

1960

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

as Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)

1965

Lord Jim

as Captain of Patna

1985

2002

Bond Girls Are Forever

as General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited)

1988

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

as Self (archive footage)

2002

Best Ever Bond

as General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited)

1979

1985

Lace 2

as General Zedd

1989

She Knows Too Much

as Foreigner

1956

The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)

1958

Ice Cold in Alex

as 1st German Officer

1963

Sword of Lancelot

as Sir Cedric

1962

The Longest Day

as German Soldier (uncredited)

1983

1983

Kalabaliken i Bender

as Storvesiren

1979

Cuba

as Don Jose Pulido

1984

Memed My Hawk

as Sgt. Asim

1953

The Red Beret

as German Sentry

1968

Cry WoIf

as Ronan

1942

Secret Mission

as Lieutenant Langfeld

2018

Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre

as Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited)

2003

Puppet Master: The Legacy

as General Mueller (archive footage)

1953

Albert R.N.

as Feldwebel

1956

1984

as Guard (uncredited)

1960

Sink the Bismarck!

as Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)

1942

1958

The Man Inside

as Profuno

1955

Above Us the Waves

as German Officer on Tirpitz

1950

The Wooden Horse

as François - The Follower

1961

The Devil's Daffodil

as Oberinspektor Whiteside

1972

Endless Night

as Constantine

1958

I Was Monty's Double

as German Colonel

1977

The Assignment

as Frankenheimer

1959

The Bandit Of Zhobe

as Azhad Khan

1963

55 Days at Peking

as Capt. Hoffman

1965

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

as Holten (uncredited)

1980

1955

The Mysterious Bullet

as Police Constable (uncredited)

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