Gottfried John
Date of birth: 1942-08-29
Place of birth: Berlin, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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 Credits
Lili Marleen
1981-01-14
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je
The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979-03-23
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa
GoldenEye
1995-11-16
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former all
Abraham
1993-12-12
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotam
Schön war die Zeit
1988-01-01
John Rabe
2009-04-02
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing
Glatteis
1998-01-01
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
1999-02-03
Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995-08-01
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) t
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978-11-17
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She h
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
2005-09-09
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transform
The Ogre
1996-09-12
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accus
Mata Hari
1985-09-05
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in
Life Is Too Long
2010-08-26
No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, h
Fedora
1978-06-29
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure
Mary Magdalene
2000-04-24
Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Mag
Night of the Fox
1990-11-28
This classic war movie stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue,
A Pirate's Heart
2006-04-15
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest -
Ruby Red
2013-03-14
On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a r
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977-07-31
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his tr
Carlos
1971-11-20
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his fathe
Despair
1978-09-15
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu
A World Beyond
2013-03-29
Hans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the Second
Brüder auf Leben und Tod
1995-01-01
Manuel is the right-hand man of drug lord Renato Calvi. After Manuel witnesses his boss brutally pun
Otto - The Movie
1985-07-19
East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and n
The Papal Council
2008-03-16
An assassination attempt on the highest dignitary of the Catholic Church? According to providence, t
Mein zweites Leben
1998-01-01
My Magical Friend Sams
2003-12-10
Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the househol
Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
1971-07-09
When Jaider has to illegally poach in order to feed the citizens of a poor Alpine town, he gets into
1982: Gutenbach
1978-10-21
After many years away, development aid worker Peter Kessel returns to his home town of Gutenbach in
Wings of Fame
1990-03-23
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well kn
Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
2004-06-12
Sylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed masquerades, s
Black Flowers
2009-09-18
Following the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking alon
Die Löwin
2012-01-02
After many years in Germany, the young doctor Lena returns to South Africa, the place of her childho
Entrusted
2003-07-03
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the
Elfenbein
1991-06-23
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975-07-07
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a
Aghet
2010-04-09
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du
Deadly Web
1994-01-01
Wo die Liebe hinfällt
1979-01-28
Emerald Green
2016-07-07
Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphi
Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
1983-09-19
Flood
2007-08-24
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high s
Das zweite Leben
2007-04-25
Die Mitläufer
1985-06-07
The Mistake
1992-03-19
It is 1988. Jacob, from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth in East Germany. When
Pattberg's Legacy
1987-05-31
Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne
1991-12-19
An eccentric pop singer from a dreary social background in a Munich suburb turns men's heads by the
Die Fremde in meiner Brust
1998-10-14
Die Zeit danach
1994-09-23
An economics expert from the West is contracted by a large firm to assist in the reorganization of a
Der Fall Franza
1987-01-01
Die Ratten
1979-02-18
Chinese Boxes
1984-11-29
An American in West Berlin finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue after his associate is kil
Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle
1996-09-21
Novalis - Die blaue Blume
1994-05-04
A romantic fairy tale about love.
Rumpelstilzchen
2009-12-26
The king locks the miller’s daughter, Lisa, in a room full of straw to turn into gold in just one ni
Marija
1978-09-17
Proof of Life
2000-12-08
When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enli
Verworrene Bilanzen
1985-05-22
The Gathering Storm
2002-04-22
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill durin
Life, Love & Celluloid
1998-02-20
Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Café Oriental
1962-02-16
Balzac: A Life of Passion
1999-09-13
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the d
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
2007-11-13
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including
Of Pure Blood
1986-10-19
A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting di
Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt
1999-06-26
Cowgirl
2004-12-08
Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struven
Der Solist - In eigener Sache
2002-04-20
Am I Beautiful?
1998-09-17
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing ea
Ein letzter Wille
1994-01-01
Super
1984-05-11
The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sk
Death Has A Bad Reputation
1990-01-01
A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.
The Stationmaster’s Wife
1977-07-31
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his tr
Renzo e Lucia
2004-01-13
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th ce
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
2005-01-10
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during
Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
1985-03-24
La casa dove abitava Corinne
1996-11-28
The story of Doriana, a young lawyer, who moves to Rome, because a criminal she convicted has escape
Augustus: The First Emperor
2003-12-29
Old and ill, Augustus, the man who changed the fortunes and destiny of an empire by completing Juliu
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
1962-03-08