Gottfried John
Birthday: 1942-08-29 | Place of Birth: Berlin, GermanyGottfried 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
Role
as Dr. Oskar Trautmann
as Arthur Moyes
as Dr. Emmanuel Droz
as School Inspector
as Thomas von Gall - grandfather
as Eric Kessler
as Erode Antipa
as Kurt Wallmann
as Self
as General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov
as Herr Benjamenta
as Eliezer
as Zlatogorski
as Wolff
as Zwemmer
as Aaron
as Willi Klenze
as Perebrodov
