Jürgen Prochnow
Birthday: 1941-06-10
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Biography: Jürgen Prochnow (born 10 June 1941) is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot. He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jürgen Prochnow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Beverly Hills Cop II
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Das Boot
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The English Patient
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Das Boot: Behind The Scenes
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The Da Vinci Code
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Body of Evidence
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Dune
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Schröders wunderbare Welt
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In the Mouth of Madness
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Esther
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Primeval
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
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House of the Dead
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La conjura de El Escorial
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The Seventh Sign
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The Consequence
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The Replacement Killers
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Robin Hood
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A Dry White Season
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Judge Dredd
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Air Force One
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Kill Cruise
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The Keep
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Beerfest
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Ripper: Letter from Hell
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Chain Reaction
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Interceptor
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Operation Ganymed
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Merlin and the War of the Dragons
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Sinners and Saints
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
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The Fourth War
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On Dangerous Ground
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DNA
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Terminus
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Spear of Destiny
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Heart of America
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The Elite
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Human Bomb
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Last Run
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Tenderness of the Wolves
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel...
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Killing Cars
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The Cry of Love
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Company of Heroes
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See Arnold Run
This biographical docu-drama alternates between two parallel threads in the life of Arnold Schwarzen...
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One or the Other of Us
Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a bla...
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Trigger Fast
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Gunblast Vodka
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The Cop & the Girl
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Guns of Honor
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin
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Poison
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Amigo - Dead on Arrival
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Hurricane Smith
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Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
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Shirin's Wedding
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Der blonde Affe
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Dark Asylum
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandone...
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Baltic Storm
A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the...
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Remember
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The Other Side of the Law
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Davon stirbt man nicht
A little deception with big consequences: Because boarding school student Dorian, the daughter of a ...
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
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Der Fall Lucona
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The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000
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U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'
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Heaven's Fire
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Blitz
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance and international villainy,...
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Oko ve zdi
The aging couple might have been enjoying a gracious autumn of their lives had it not been for a cra...
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Ein schmaler Grat
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War and Peace
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Damascus Cover
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria....
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Love Is Forever
Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he ...
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Hitman: Agent 47
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ances...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
A psychedelic mushroom trip turns a successful lawyer into a wanted man....
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Lie Down with Lions
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Fesseln
A couple travel to the mountains to talk about their marital crisis. When the wife falls during the ...
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Old Agent Men
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Die Wildnis
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Die Kinder meiner Tochter
Grim, recently retired 'iron judge' Ernst Blessing lives alone with his dog since his only daughter ...
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The Man Inside
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard...
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Ohne Gnade
The crunchy sisters Biene and Püppi decide that there must finally be an end to the emotional and fi...
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Wing Commander
In the mid-27th century, the Terran Confederation is at war with the vicious alien Kilrathi Empire. ...
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Final Ascent
A man leading an expedition into the Rocky Mountains becomes entangled with a deadly band of thieves...
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Devil's Paradise
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he ...
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A Hidden Life
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis...
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The Final Journey
A former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to Ukraine to find the woma...
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while...
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The Guardian Angel
In July 1944, with the Allies landed at Normandy but unable to push past German forces, a young Germ...
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So weit das Auge reicht
Robert, a masseur who is hard of hearing, is unaware that he has inherited millions. Four people wan...
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Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
Documentary on the making of the 1995 film 'Judge Dredd.'...
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The Fall
In Budapest, two Americans live together. Adam, a former Manhattan prosecutor at work on his first n...
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Half Brothers
Two estranged, American half brothers with opposing political views and their significant others mee...
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Forbidden
In Berlin in the early 1940s, romance is forbidden between the young countess who is studying veteri...
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The Schoolmaster
In 1948 a new schoolmaster with a Polish background arrives in a small South-African town and is con...
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The Celestine Prophecy
A spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. ...
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Real Men
An investigation into the myth of the screen hero and its importance to men, mainly in the Western w...
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A Handful of Water
Jürgen Prochnow (Das Boot, Dune) stars as Konrad, an old man still mourning his wife's death, living...
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The old Man and the Pain in the Neck
Shortly before his 75th birthday, Wilhelm Schürmann has no desire to adapt his lifestyle even a litt...
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The Last Rifleman
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational...
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David...
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Hans in Luck
When Hans wakes up one morning, he realizes that he is longer than his bed, his feet sticking out ov...
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Jack the Dog
Jack is a dog. When he's not photographing women, as a profession, he's seducing them. Until now. Ho...
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Destination Dune
A short documentary that was originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity ev...
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The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
A brand new feature-length documentary by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures exploring the making of the film,...
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A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact....
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Nanking
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...
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Das Boot - The Director's Cut
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the shee...
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Das Boot - The Original Uncut Version
Widely imitated yet never equaled, claustrophobic thriller DAS BOOT resurfaces and the definitive or...
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