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Gottfried John
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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 S…
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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.
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Gottfried John's Filmography
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Emerald Green
as Dr. White (archive footage)
A World Beyond
as Dr. Jan Kersebohm
Ruby Red
as Dr. White
Die Löwin
as Jo
Life Is Too Long
as Georg Maria Stahl
Aghet
as Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein
Rumpelstilzchen
as König Gustav
Black Flowers
as Curtis
John Rabe
as Dr. Oskar Trautmann
The Papal Council
as Paolo Naldini
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
as Self
Flood
as Arthur Moyes
No Poster
Das zweite Leben
as Robert Kreutzer
A Pirate's Heart
as Konrad von Wallenrod
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
as Dr. Emmanuel Droz
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
as Henri, duc d'Armagnac
Cowgirl
as Hans Krahl
Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
as Aldo Caldini
Renzo e Lucia
as Innominato
Augustus: The First Emperor
as Cicero
My Magical Friend Sams
as School Inspector
Entrusted
as Thomas von Gall - grandfather
The Gathering Storm
as Friedrich von Schroder
No Poster
Der Solist - In eigener Sache
as Martin Krohn
Proof of Life
as Eric Kessler
Mary Magdalene
as Erode Antipa
Balzac: A Life of Passion
as Count Hanska
No Poster
Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt
as Max Beckmann
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
as Jules César
No Poster
Teuflischer Engel
as Henry Martens
No Poster
Die Fremde in meiner Brust
as Richard Keller
Am I Beautiful?
as Herbert
No Poster
Life, Love & Celluloid
as Self
No Poster
Glatteis
as Kurt Wallmann
No Poster
Mein zweites Leben
as Richard Keller
La casa dove abitava Corinne
as Michele Wolf
No Poster
Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle
as Kommissar Beckmann
The Ogre
as Chief Forester
GoldenEye
as Colonel Ourumov
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
as Herr Benjamenta
No Poster
Brüder auf Leben und Tod
as Renato Calvi
No Poster
Die Zeit danach
as man from Klagenfurt
Novalis - Die blaue Blume
as Sophies Vater
No Poster
Deadly Web
as Kommissar Max Beckmann
No Poster
Ein letzter Wille
as Paul Elling
Abraham
as Eliezer
The Mistake
as Jacob Alain
No Poster
Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne
as Robert Dallburg
No Poster
Elfenbein
as Nicholas Messier
Night of the Fox
as Hofer
Wings of Fame
as Zlatogorski
Death Has a Bad Reputation
as Rodimstev
Schön war die Zeit
as Franz Bauer
No Poster
Pattberg's Legacy
as Ulrich Vogtmann
No Poster
Der Fall Franza
as Captain
Of Pure Blood
as Paul Bergmann
Mata Hari
as Wolff
Otto - The Movie
as Sonnemann
The Followers
as Brocke
No Poster
Verworrene Bilanzen
as Karl M. Kronen
Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
as Bartolomé de las Casas
Chinese Boxes
as Zwemmer
Super
No Poster
Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
as Petritschenko
Lili Marleen
as Aaron
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Willi Klenze
No Poster
Die Ratten
as Bruno Mechelke
No Poster
Wo die Liebe hinfällt
In a Year with 13 Moons
as Anton Saitz
No Poster
1982: Gutenbach
as Peter Kessel
Despair
as Perebrodov
No Poster
Marija
as Filipp
Fedora
as Kritos
The Stationmaster’s Wife
as Finkelberger
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Jörg Niemeyer
Carlos
as Carlos
Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
as Jaider
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
