Gottfried John
Acting
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.
Born: August 29, 1942
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
Balzac
As Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was driven by the desire to achieve something great. With the support of Laure de Berny, he started printing and publishing without much success, but it was with his pen that he achieved fame, thanks to the constant support of Madame de Berny. Balzac became a writer that readers devoured.
Aghet
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness reports by European and American personnel stationed in the Near East at the time, Armenian survivors and other contemporary witnesses which are recited by modern German actors.
Abraham
The life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God and the father of Judaism, spanning from the patriarch's quest for the Promised Land to the sacrifice of his son, Isaac.
Der Kommissar
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?
Millennium
A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (German: Acht Stunden sind kein Tag) is a West German television drama miniseries written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, it broadcast in five episodes between 1972 and 1973. In Cologne, West Germany, young toolmaker Jochen's world is explored, including those around him: the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor.
Game, Set, and Match
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.
Game, Set, and Match
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.
Filmography
as Dr. White (archive footage)
as Dr. Jan Kersebohm
as Dr. White
as Jo
as Georg Maria Stahl
as Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein
as König Gustav
as Curtis
as Dr. Oskar Trautmann
as Paolo Naldini
as Arthur Moyes
as Konrad von Wallenrod
as Dr. Emmanuel Droz
as Henri, duc d'Armagnac
as Hans Krahl
as Henri, duc d'Armagnac
as Aldo Caldini
as Innominato
as Cicero
as School Inspector
as Cicero
as Thomas von Gall - grandfather
as Friedrich von Schroder
as Eric Kessler
as Carmello La Capra
as Erode Antipa
as le comte Hanski
as Count Hanska
as Max Beckmann
as Jules César
as Self
as Herbert
as Dr. Brendel
as Michele Wolf
as Josef Heim
as Kommissar Beckmann
as Chief Forester
as Colonel Ourumov
as Herr Benjamenta
as Sophies Vater
as Eliezer
as Kommissar Max Beckmann
as Eliezer
as Pierre
as Erich Weiss
as Johnny Reschke
as Jacob Alain
as Hofer
as Zlatogorski
as Rodimstev
as Erich Stinnes
as Franz Bauer
as Self
as Paul Bergmann
as Wolff
as Sonnemann
as Brocke
as Bartolomé de las Casas
as Zwemmer
as Hans Beckers
as Markus Meyer
as Aaron
as Reinhold Hoffmann
as Herr Adam
as Willi Klenze
as Self
as Anton Saitz
as Perebrodov
as Kritos
as Finkelberger
as Jörg Niemeyer
as Krummbach
as Einstein
as Jochen Epp
as Carlos
as Jaider
as Hellwig
as Harry Mucher
as Werner Stimmel