John Gottowt

Personal Info

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]

John Gottowt

Biography

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...

Acting

1922

Nosferatu

as Professor Bulwer

1913

The Student of Prague

as Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer

1932

The Living Dead

as Beamter des Mechanischen Museums

1998

Nosferatu: The First Vampire

as Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer

1926

1921

Brennendes Land

as Wladislaus

1920

1920

Der rote Henker

as L'Angely

1924

Waxworks

as Owner of the Waxworks

1930

The Twelfth Hour

as Sanitarium Doctor

1920

1917

Die Prinzessin von Neutralien

as The billionaire Vandergold

Production

1913

Das schwarze Los

as Director

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