Gottfried John
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.
Movie Appearances
Lili Marleen
as Aaron
1981
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Willi Klenze
1979
GoldenEye
as Colonel Ourumov
1995
Abraham
as Eliezer
1993
Schön war die Zeit
as Franz Bauer
1988
John Rabe
as Dr. Oskar Trautmann
2009
Glatteis
as Kurt Wallmann
1998
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
as Jules César
1999
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
as Herr Benjamenta
1995
In a Year with 13 Moons
as Anton Saitz
1978
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
as Dr. Emmanuel Droz
2005
The Ogre
as Chief Forester
1996
Mata Hari
as Wolff
1985
Life Is Too Long
as Georg Maria Stahl
2010
Fedora
as Kritos
1978
Mary Magdalene
as Erode Antipa
2000
Night of the Fox
as Hofer
1990
A Pirate's Heart
as Konrad von Wallenrod
2006
Ruby Red
as Dr. White
2013
The Stationmaster’s Wife
as Finkelberger
1977
TV Appearances
Augustus: The First Emperor
as Cicero
2003
Millennium
as Josef Heim
1996
Space Rangers
as Erich Weiss
1993
Game, Set, and Match
1988
Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Reinhold Hoffmann
1980
The Commissioner
as Werner Stimmel
1969
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Jochen Epp
1972
Scene of the Crime
as Harry Mucher
1970
The Great Runaway
as Herr Adam
1979
Die Cleveren
as Dr. Brendel
1998
Derrick
as Krummbach
1974
A Case For Two
as Hans Beckers
1981