Gottfried John
Known For
Acting
Born
1942-08-29 in Berlin, Germany
Died
2014-09-01
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Scene of the Crime
as Harry Mucher
Derrick
as Krummbach
Polizeiruf 110
as Hellwig
NDR Talk Show
as Self
A Case For Two
as Hans Beckers
A Case For Two
as Markus Meyer
Nachtcafé
as Self
Millennium
as Josef Heim
3 nach 9
as Self
Beckmann
as Self
GoldenEye
as Colonel Ourumov
Wolffs Revier
as Johnny Reschke
Der Kommissar
as Werner Stimmel
Flood
as Arthur Moyes
1982: Gutenbach
as Peter Kessel
Fedora
as Kritos
Emerald Green
as Dr. White (archive footage)
Bavarian Film Awards
as Self
World on a Wire
as Einstein
Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Reinhold Hoffmann