Gottfried John
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.
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former...
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Flood
as Arthur MoyesTimely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with...
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John Rabe
as Dr. Oskar TrautmannA true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the...
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Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has...
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Emerald Green
as Dr. White (archive footage)Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where...
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Ruby Red
as Dr. WhiteGwendolyn Shepherd is a normal 16-year-old, but her family holds a secret: A time-travel gene is...
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Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
as Jules CésarSet in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul,...
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Lili Marleen
as AaronThe story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a...
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Abraham
as EliezerRather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Willi KlenzeMaria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in...
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Despair
as PerebrodovBerlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate...
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Fedora
as KritosAn ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to...
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The Gathering Storm
as Friedrich von SchroderA love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill...
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The Ogre
as Chief ForesterFrenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely...
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Mata Hari
as WolffBased loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts...
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Augustus: The First Emperor
as CiceroCaesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following...
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Otto - The Movie
as SonnemannEast Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark...
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In a Year with 13 Moons
as Anton SaitzElvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love....
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Am I Beautiful?
as HerbertGerman people having trouble with love and identity.
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Balzac: A Life of Passion
as Count HanskaThis is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from...
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Entrusted
as Thomas von Gall - grandfatherHoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France,...
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Carlos
as CarlosIn the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his...
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Black Flowers
as CurtisFollowing the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Jörg NiemeyerAfter a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
as FinkelbergerThe lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren;...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
as uncreditedThe lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren;...
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as ZlatogorskiA famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very...
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Mary Magdalene
as Erode AntipaEmployed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary...
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Cowgirl
as Hans KrahlDreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in...
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Super
as uncreditedThe Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed....
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
as Dr. Emmanuel DrozDark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on...
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Night of the Fox
as HoferAn American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in...
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin
as Henri, duc d'ArmagnacAgnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed...
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A Pirate's Heart
as Konrad von WallenrodThe end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the...
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Sams in Gefahr
as School InspectorSams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the...
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The Mistake
as Jacob AlainIt is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth...
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
as Herr BenjamentaJakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa...
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Rumpelstilzchen
as König GustavThe king locks the miller’s daughter, Lisa, in a room full of straw to turn into gold in just...
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A World Beyond
as Dr. Jan KersebohmHans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the...
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Chinese Boxes
as ZwemmerAn American in West Berlin finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue after his associate is...
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Renzo e Lucia
as InnominatoLoose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn...
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Aghet
as Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman...
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Of Pure Blood
as Paul BergmannA mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for....
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Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
as JaiderWhen Jaider has to illegally poach in order to feed the citizens of a poor Alpine town, he gets...
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Death Has A Bad Reputation
as RodimstevA British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
as SelfA documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder,...
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Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
as Aldo CaldiniSylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed...
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La casa dove abitava Corinne
as Michele WolfThe story of Doriana, a young lawyer, who moves to Rome, because a criminal she convicted has...
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Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
as Bartolomé de las Casas
Polizeiruf 110
as HellwigPolizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode...
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Derrick
as KrummbachDerrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association...
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A Case For Two
as Hans BeckersEin Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF....
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A Case For Two
as Markus MeyerEin Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF....
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Scene of the Crime
as Harry MucherTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Der Kommissar
as Werner StimmelDer Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide...
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Millennium
as Josef HeimA retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground...
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Donna Leon
as Carmello La CapraMurder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna...
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Wolffs Revier
as Johnny ReschkeWolffs Revier is a German television series.
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Reinhold HoffmannIn late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However,...
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Game, Set, and Match
as uncreditedFocuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens...
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Game, Set, and Match
as Erich StinnesFocuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens...
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Die Cleveren
as Dr. BrendelDie Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is...
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World on a Wire
as EinsteinCybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual...
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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Jochen EppCommissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director...
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The Great Runaway
as Herr AdamA miniseries about a pair of teenagers living in a slum at the fringes of Berlin. Alcoholism,...
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Space Rangers
as Erich WeissSpace Rangers is an American futuristic science fiction drama. The short lived series aired on...
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Balzac
as le comte HanskiAs Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was...
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