Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1881-06-15 (61 years old)
Deathday
1942-08-29
Place of Birth
Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Also known As
Isidor Gesang
John Gottowt (born Isidor Gesang; 15 June 1881 – 29 August 1942) was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies. Gottowt was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. After his education in Vienna, he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1905, working for Max Reinhardt as an actor and director. Gottowt was mainly active in different theatres in Berlin as a character actor and director. His first silent film appearance was in Paul Wegener’s Der Student von Prag ("The Student of Prague") (1913). In 1920 he appeared in Robert Wiene's Genuine and took the main...
1922
as Professor Bulwer
1919
1913
as Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer
1932
as Beamter des Mechanischen Museums
1920
as Guyard
1998
as Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer
1926
as Bediensteter
1921
as Wladislaus
1920
as Buckliger Narr
1920
as Algol
1920
as L'Angely
1924
as Owner of the Waxworks
1930
as Sanitarium Doctor
1913
1920
as James Wilton
1917
as The billionaire Vandergold
1913
as Director
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