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