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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.443 |
| Birthday | 1942-08-29 |
| Place of Birth | Berlin, Germany |
| Also Known As |
1981
Lili Marleen
6.3/75
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping p...
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Lili Marleen
1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
7.362/250
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to nav...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
1995
GoldenEye
6.893/3892
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world...
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GoldenEye
1993
Abraham
6.9/36
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank...
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Abraham
1988
Schön war die Zeit
0/0
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Schön war die Zeit
2009
John Rabe
7.1/119
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
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John Rabe
1998
Glatteis
0/0
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Glatteis
1999
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
6/1884
Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsf...
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Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
1995
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
7.7/44
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men,...
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1978
In a Year with 13 Moons
6.6/80
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest...
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In a Year with 13 Moons
2005
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
6.1/30
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
1996
The Ogre
6.4/42
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a s...
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The Ogre
1985
Mata Hari
4/39
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive ch...
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Mata Hari
2010
Life Is Too Long
5/3
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Life Is Too Long
1978
Fedora
6.7/130
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
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Fedora
2000
Mary Magdalene
5.6/12
Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene is overwhelmed by John's powerful message o...
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Mary Magdalene
1990
Night of the Fox
6/12
This classic war mini-series stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue, and a deadly secret that could determine th...
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Night of the Fox
2006
A Pirate's Heart
5.3/9
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the child...
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A Pirate's Heart
2013
Ruby Red
6.967/1108
On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.
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Ruby Red
1977
The Stationmaster’s Wife
5.1/9
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
1971
Carlos
0/0
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the r...
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Carlos
1978
Despair
6.5/39
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his te...
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Despair
2013
A World Beyond
6.167/3
Hans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the Second World war comes untied. In this paradise Hans find...
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A World Beyond
1995
Brüder auf Leben und Tod
0/0
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Brüder auf Leben und Tod
1985
Otto - The Movie
6.5/123
East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Si...
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Otto - The Movie
2008
The Papal Council
3/1
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The Papal Council
1998
Mein zweites Leben
0/0
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Mein zweites Leben
1993
Das Sahara-Projekt
0/0
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Das Sahara-Projekt
2003
Sams in Gefahr
5.5/20
Sams in danger, it is said, when Mr. Taschenbier's son Martin brings the Sams back into the household, which, however, is kidnapped shortly afterwards...
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Sams in Gefahr
1971
Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
0/0
When Jaider has to illegally poach in order to feed the citizens of a poor Alpine town, he gets into a blood-soaked conflict with the German authoriti...
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Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
1978
1982: Gutenbach
0/0
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1982: Gutenbach
1990
Wings of Fame
6.7/18
A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as...
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Wings of Fame
2004
Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
5/2
Sylvia Rosch is a woman with dangerous obsessions. Camouflaged by perfectly rehearsed masquerades, she wages a merciless campaign of revenge. Anyone w...
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Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
2009
Black Flowers
4.4/8
Following the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking along Elena, the daughter of a Russian spy who died un...
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Black Flowers
2012
Die Löwin
0/0
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Die Löwin
2003
Entrusted
6.7/13
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-o...
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Entrusted
1991
Elfenbein
0/0
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Elfenbein
1975
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
7.8/26
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1979
Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie
0/0
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Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie
2010
Aghet
8.2/5
2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness report...
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Aghet
1994
Deadly Web
0/0
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Deadly Web
1979
Wo die Liebe hinfällt
6.5/1
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Wo die Liebe hinfällt
2016
Emerald Green
7/850
Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue...
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Emerald Green
1987
Pattberg's Legacy
0/0
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Pattberg's Legacy
1983
Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
0/0
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Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
1985
Die Mitläufer
0/0
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Die Mitläufer
1991
Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne
0/0
An eccentric pop singer from a dreary social background in a Munich suburb turns men's heads by the dozen and makes an unexpected career when a seriou...
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Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne
1992
The Mistake
4.5/4
It is 1988. Jacob (Gottfried John), from Hamburg in West Germany, falls in love with Elisabeth (Angelica Domröse) in East Germany. When they secretly...
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The Mistake
1998
Die Fremde in meiner Brust
3.5/2
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Die Fremde in meiner Brust
2007
Flood
5.3/140
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra...
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Flood
2007
Das zweite Leben
7/1
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Das zweite Leben
1994
Die Zeit danach
0/0
An economics expert from the West is contracted by a large firm to assist in the reorganization of a debt-ridden steel plant in the former Eastern Blo...
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Die Zeit danach
1987
Der Fall Franza
0/0
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Der Fall Franza
1979
Die Ratten
0/0
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Die Ratten
1984
Chinese Boxes
6/1
An American in West Berlin finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue after his associate is killed and a diplomat's daughter is found dead in his...
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Chinese Boxes
2002
Best Ever Bond
5/4
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Best Ever Bond
1996
Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle
1/1
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Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle
1993
Novalis - Die blaue Blume
0/0
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Novalis - Die blaue Blume
2009
Rumpelstilzchen
7/2
The king locks the miller’s daughter, Lisa, in a room full of straw to turn into gold in just one night. If she doesn’t succeed she would be executed.
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Rumpelstilzchen
1978
Marija
0/0
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Marija
2000
Proof of Life
6.1/789
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South Ame...
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Proof of Life
1985
Verworrene Bilanzen
0/0
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Verworrene Bilanzen
2002
The Gathering Storm
6.6/64
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo...
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The Gathering Storm
1998
Life, Love & Celluloid
5.8/4
Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Life, Love & Celluloid
1962
Café Oriental
4.5/2
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Café Oriental
1999
Balzac: A Life of Passion
5.3/9
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that...
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Balzac: A Life of Passion
2003
Augustus: The First Emperor
5.9/18
Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
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Augustus: The First Emperor
2007
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
0/0
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
1986
Of Pure Blood
0/0
A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of her...
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Of Pure Blood
1999
Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt
0/0
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Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt
2004
Cowgirl
3.5/4
Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs i...
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Cowgirl
2002
Der Solist - In eigener Sache
6/1
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Der Solist - In eigener Sache
1998
Am I Beautiful?
6.7/15
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, witho...
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Am I Beautiful?
1994
Ein letzter Wille
0/0
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Ein letzter Wille
1984
Super
6.2/20
The Earth shortly before its end. The houses in the cities are deserted, the streets smashed. The sky shimmers dark gray.
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Super
1990
Death Has A Bad Reputation
4/1
A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.
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Death Has A Bad Reputation
1977
The Stationmaster’s Wife
5.1/9
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when...
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The Stationmaster’s Wife
2004
Renzo e Lucia
0/0
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes yo...
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Renzo e Lucia
2005
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
4/6
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has tur...
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin
1985
Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
5/1
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Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
1996
La casa dove abitava Corinne
0/0
The story of Doriana, a young lawyer, who moves to Rome, because a criminal she convicted has escaped prison and threatens to kill her. But the flat s...
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