Gottfried John
ActingBiography
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 for which he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Movies
(79 total)
GoldenEye
as Colonel Ourumov
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
as Jules César
Ruby Red
as Dr. White
Emerald Green
as Dr. White (archive footage)
Proof of Life
as Eric Kessler
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Willi Klenze
Flood
as Arthur Moyes
Fedora
as Kritos
Otto - The Movie
as Sonnemann
John Rabe
as Dr. Oskar Trautmann
Lili Marleen
as Aaron
In a Year with 13 Moons
as Anton Saitz
The Gathering Storm
as Friedrich von Schroder
Abraham
as Eliezer
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
as Herr Benjamenta
The Ogre
as Chief Forester
Despair
as Perebrodov
Mata Hari
as Wolff
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Jörg Niemeyer
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
as Dr. Emmanuel Droz
TV Shows
(32 total)
Millennium
as Josef Heim
Scene of the Crime
as Harry Mucher
World on a Wire
as Einstein
Derrick
as Krummbach
Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Reinhold Hoffmann
Polizeiruf 110
as Hellwig
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Jochen Epp
A Case For Two
as Hans Beckers
A Case For Two
as Markus Meyer
Space Rangers
as Erich Weiss
Donna Leon
as Carmello La Capra
Der Kommissar
as Werner Stimmel
Augustus: The First Emperor
as Cicero
Wolffs Revier
as Johnny Reschke
Die Cleveren
as Dr. Brendel
Game, Set, and Match
as Erich Stinnes
NDR Talk Show
as Self
Nachtcafé
as Self
Beckmann
as Self