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Gottfried John 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 Ourumov 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.
Born
Saturday, 29 August 1942
Died
Monday, 01 September 2014
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Acht Stunden sind kein Tag - Eine Serie wird zum Familientreffpunkt | Jochen Epp | 2017 |
| Emerald Green | Dr. White / Dr. White (archive footage) | 2016 |
| Fassbinder | Willi Klenze | 2015 |
| Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands | Self | 2015 |
| Liebe und Tod auf Java | Dr. Jan Kersebohm | 2013 |
| Ruby Red | Dr. White | 2013 |
| Die Löwin | Jo | 2012 |
| The Cinema and its Double - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited | Perebrodov | 2011 |
| Life Is Too Long | Georg Maria Stahl | 2010 |
| Aghet - Ein Völkermord | Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein | 2010 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Acht Stunden sind kein Tag - Eine Serie wird zum Familientreffpunkt | Jochen Epp | 2017 |
| Emerald Green | Dr. White / Dr. White (archive footage) | 2016 |
| Fassbinder | Willi Klenze | 2015 |
| Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands | Self | 2015 |
| Liebe und Tod auf Java | Dr. Jan Kersebohm | 2013 |
| Ruby Red | Dr. White | 2013 |
| Die Löwin | Jo | 2012 |
| The Cinema and its Double - Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited | Perebrodov | 2011 |
| Life Is Too Long | Georg Maria Stahl | 2010 |
| Aghet - Ein Völkermord | Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein | 2010 |
| Rumpelstiltskin | König Gustav | 2009 |
| Flores negras | Curtis | 2009 |
| John Rabe | Dr. Oskar Trautmann | 2009 |
| Das Papstattentat | Paolo Naldini | 2008 |
| Flood | Arthur Moyes | 2007 |
| Störtebeker | Konrad von Wallenrod | 2006 |
| The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes | Dr. Emmanuel Droz | 2005 |
| Cowgirl | Hans Krahl | 2004 |
| Julie, chevalier de Maupin | Henri, duc d'Armagnac | 2004 |
| Die schöne Braut in Schwarz | Aldo Caldini | 2004 |
| Renzo e Lucia | Conte del Sagrato / Innominato | 2004 |
| Sams in Gefahr | Schulrat | 2003 |
| Augustus: The First Emperor | Cicero | 2003 |
| Entrusted | Thomas von Gall - grandfather | 2003 |
| Best Ever Bond | Self | 2002 |
| The Gathering Storm | Friedrich von Schroder | 2002 |
| Der Solist - In eigener Sache | Martin Krohn | 2002 |
| Proof of Life | Eric Kessler | 2000 |
| Donna Leon | Carmello La Capra | 2000 |
| Mary Magdalene | Erode Antipa | 2000 |
| Teuflischer Engel | Henry Martens | 2000 |
| The James Bond Story | General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov | 1999 |
| Balzac: A Passionate Life | Count Hanska | 1999 |
| Beckmann und Markowski - Gehetzt | Max Beckmann | 1999 |
| Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar | Jules César | 1999 |
| Die Fremde in meiner Brust | Richard Keller | 1998 |
| Am I Beautiful? | Herbert | 1998 |
| Die Cleveren | Dr. Brendel | 1998 |
| Life, Love & Celluloid | Self | 1998 |
| Glatteis | Kurt Wallmann | 1998 |
| La casa dove abitava Corinne | Michele Wolf | 1996 |
| Millennium | Josef Heim | 1996 |
| Beckmann und Markowski - Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle | Kommissar Beckmann | 1996 |
| The Ogre | Chief Forester | 1996 |
| GoldenEye | Colonel Ourumov / General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov | 1995 |
| Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life | Herr Benjamenta | 1995 |
| Brüder auf Leben und Tod | Renato Calvi | 1995 |
| Die Zeit danach | man from Klagenfurt | 1994 |
| Deadly Web | Kommissar Max Beckmann | 1994 |
| Ein letzter Wille | Paul Elling | 1994 |
| Abraham | Eliezer | 1993 |
| Space Rangers | Erich Weiss | 1993 |
| Wolff's Turf | Johnny Reschke | 1992 |
| Die Verfehlung | Jacob Alain | 1992 |
| Ich schenk dir die Sterne | Robert Dallburg | 1991 |
| Night of the Fox | Hofer | 1990 |
| Wings of Fame | Zlatogorski | 1990 |
| Frederick Forsyth Presents | Rodimstev | 1989 |
| Blaues Blut | Herr Mannheim | 1989 |
| Game, Set, and Match | Erich Stinnes | 1988 |
| Schön war die Zeit | Franz Bauer / Franz Bauer - Kameramann | 1988 |
| Der Fall Franza | Capitain / Captain | 1987 |
| Of Pure Blood | Paul Bergmann | 1986 |
| Otto - Der Film | Sonnemann | 1985 |
| Mata Hari | Wolff | 1985 |
| Chinese Boxes | Zwemmer | 1984 |
| La piovra | Friar Gillo | 1984 |
| Die Matrosen von Kronstadt | Petritschenko | 1983 |
| Ente oder Trente | Glentz | 1983 |
| A Case for Two | Markus Meyer / Hans Beckers | 1982 |
| The Stationmaster's Wife | Trial assessor | 1982 |
| Lili Marleen | Aaron | 1981 |
| Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie | Clemens Koch | 1980 |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Reinhold Hoffmann | 1980 |
| Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie | Clemens Koch | 1979 |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Willi Klenze | 1979 |
| In a Year with 13 Moons | Anton Saitz | 1978 |
| In a Year of 13 Moons | Anton Saitz | 1978 |
| Despair | Perebrodov | 1978 |
| Fedora | Kritos | 1978 |
| Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven | Niemeyer / Jörg Niemeyer | 1975 |
| Derrick | Krummbach | 1974 |
| World on a Wire | Einstein | 1973 |
| Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Jaider | 1972 |
| Eight Hours Don't Make a Day | Jochen Epp | 1972 |
| Police Call 110 | Hannes Hellwig | 1971 |
| Der Kommissar | Werner Stimmel | 1969 |
| Jörg Preda berichtet | Rolf Lohaber | 1966 |
| Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt | Zugpassagier | 1962 |
| Café Oriental | 1962 | |
| Le bois des amants | Le téléphoniste | 1960 |
