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Gottfried John

Acting · Born August 29, 1942 · Berlin, Germany

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.

Movies with Gottfried John

• GoldenEye (1995) — Colonel Ourumov
• Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar (1999) — Jules César
• Proof of Life (2000) — Eric Kessler
• Ruby Red (2013) — Dr. White
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) — Willi Klenze
• Flood (2007) — Arthur Moyes
• Fedora (1978) — Kritos
• Emerald Green (2016) — Dr. White (archive footage)
• In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) — Anton Saitz
• Abraham (1993) — Eliezer
• Night of the Fox (1990) — Hofer
• The Ogre (1996) — Chief Forester

TV shows with Gottfried John

• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) — Reinhold Hoffmann
• Space Rangers (1993) — Erich Weiss
• Game, Set, and Match (1988) — Erich Stinnes
• Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972) — Jochen Epp