
Cast
Gottfried John
Acting
Cast
Gottfried John
Known for
Acting
Born
1942-08-29
From
Berlin, Germany
Died
2014-09-01
Biography
Gottfried John (German: [ËjoËn];[1] 29 August 1942 â 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 KĂŒsters 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.

GoldenEye
as Colonel Ourumov

Ruby Red
as Dr. White

Flood
as Arthur Moyes

Proof of Life
as Eric Kessler

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
as Jules César

Emerald Green
as Dr. White (archive footage)

John Rabe
as Dr. Oskar Trautmann

Black Flowers
as Curtis

The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Willi Klenze

Fedora
as Kritos

Abraham
as Eliezer

Despair
as Perebrodov

The Ogre
as Chief Forester

Am I Beautiful?
as Herbert

The Gathering Storm
as Friedrich von Schroder

Lili Marleen
as Aaron

Chinese Boxes
as Zwemmer

Entrusted
as Thomas von Gall - grandfather

Mata Hari
as Wolff

Night of the Fox
as Hofer

Aghet
as Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein

Balzac: A Life of Passion
as Count Hanska

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
as Herr Benjamenta

Otto - The Movie
as Sonnemann

Wings of Fame
as Zlatogorski

My Magical Friend Sams
as School Inspector

Augustus: The First Emperor
as Cicero

Glatteis
as Kurt Wallmann

In a Year with 13 Moons
as Anton Saitz

The Stationmasterâs Wife
as Finkelberger

The Stationmasterâs Wife

A Pirate's Heart
as Konrad von Wallenrod

The Followers
as Brocke

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
as Dr. Emmanuel Droz

Carlos
as Carlos

Julie, chevalier de Maupin
as Henri, duc d'Armagnac

Cowgirl
as Hans Krahl

Mein zweites Leben
as Richard Keller

The Mistake
as Jacob Alain

Novalis - Die blaue Blume
as Sophies Vater

Life, Love & Celluloid
as Self

Mother KĂŒsters Goes to Heaven
as Jörg Niemeyer

Mary Magdalene
as Erode Antipa

Renzo e Lucia
as Innominato

Life Is Too Long
as Georg Maria Stahl

Marija
as Filipp

Schön war die Zeit
as Franz Bauer

Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der GefĂŒhle
as Kommissar Beckmann

BrĂŒder auf Leben und Tod
as Renato Calvi

Ein letzter Wille
as Paul Elling

Die Löwin
as Jo

Der Fall Franza
as Captain

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
as Self

Death Has a Bad Reputation
as Rodimstev

Das MĂ€dchen und der Staatsanwalt

Of Pure Blood
as Paul Bergmann

Die Zeit danach
as man from Klagenfurt

Bartolome oder Die RĂŒckkehr der weiĂen Götter
as Bartolomé de las Casas

Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
as Aldo Caldini

The Papal Council
as Paolo Naldini

La casa dove abitava Corinne
as Michele Wolf

Der Solist - In eigener Sache
as Martin Krohn

A World Beyond
as Dr. Jan Kersebohm

Die Fremde in meiner Brust
as Richard Keller

Elfenbein
as Nicholas Messier

Das zweite Leben
as Robert Kreutzer

Deadly Web
as Kommissar Max Beckmann

Verworrene Bilanzen
as Karl M. Kronen

Rumpelstilzchen
as König Gustav

Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt
as Max Beckmann

Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
as Petritschenko

Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
as Jaider

Die Ratten
as Bruno Mechelke

Pattberg's Legacy
as Ulrich Vogtmann

Wo die Liebe hinfÀllt

Super

1982: Gutenbach
as Peter Kessel

Café Oriental

Ich schenkâ Dir die Sterne
as Robert Dallburg

Teuflischer Engel
as Henry Martens