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.

Cast

Lili Marleen
Aaron
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Willi Klenze
GoldenEye
Colonel Ourumov
Abraham
Eliezer
Schön war die Zeit
Franz Bauer
John Rabe
Dr. Oskar Trautmann
Glatteis
Kurt Wallmann
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
Jules César
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Herr Benjamenta
In a Year with 13 Moons
Anton Saitz
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Dr. Emmanuel Droz
The Ogre
Chief Forester
Mata Hari
Wolff
Life Is Too Long
Georg Maria Stahl
Fedora
Kritos
Mary Magdalene
Erode Antipa
Night of the Fox
Hofer
A Pirate's Heart
Konrad von Wallenrod
Ruby Red
Dr. White
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Finkelberger, Unknown
Carlos
Carlos
Despair
Perebrodov
A World Beyond
Dr. Jan Kersebohm
Brüder auf Leben und Tod
Renato Calvi
Otto - The Movie
Sonnemann
The Papal Council
Paolo Naldini
Mein zweites Leben
Richard Keller
My Magical Friend Sams
School Inspector
Jaider, the Lonely Hunter
Jaider
1982: Gutenbach
Peter Kessel
Wings of Fame
Zlatogorski
Die schöne Braut in Schwarz
Aldo Caldini
Black Flowers
Curtis
Die Löwin
Jo
Entrusted
Thomas von Gall - grandfather
Elfenbein
Nicholas Messier
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Jörg Niemeyer
Aghet
Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein
Deadly Web
Kommissar Max Beckmann
Wo die Liebe hinfällt
Unknown
Emerald Green
Dr. White (archive footage)
Die Matrosen von Kronstadt
Petritschenko
Flood
Arthur Moyes
Das zweite Leben
Robert Kreutzer
Die Mitläufer
Brocke
The Mistake
Jacob Alain
Pattberg's Legacy
Ulrich Vogtmann
Ich schenk’ Dir die Sterne
Robert Dallburg
Die Fremde in meiner Brust
Richard Keller
Die Zeit danach
man from Klagenfurt
Der Fall Franza
Captain
Die Ratten
Bruno Mechelke
Chinese Boxes
Zwemmer
Beckmann und Markowski: Im Zwiespalt der Gefühle
Kommissar Beckmann
Novalis - Die blaue Blume
Sophies Vater
Rumpelstilzchen
König Gustav
Marija
Filipp
Proof of Life
Eric Kessler
Verworrene Bilanzen
Karl M. Kronen
The Gathering Storm
Friedrich von Schroder
Life, Love & Celluloid
Self
Café Oriental
Unknown
Balzac: A Life of Passion
Count Hanska
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
Self
Of Pure Blood
Paul Bergmann
Beckmann und Markowski: Gehetzt
Max Beckmann
Cowgirl
Hans Krahl
Der Solist - In eigener Sache
Martin Krohn
Am I Beautiful?
Herbert
Ein letzter Wille
Paul Elling
Super
Unknown
Death Has A Bad Reputation
Rodimstev
Renzo e Lucia
Innominato
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
Henri, duc d'Armagnac
Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter
Bartolomé de las Casas
La casa dove abitava Corinne
Michele Wolf
Augustus: The First Emperor
Cicero
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
Unknown