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Gottfried John

29 Aug, 1942 in Berlin, Germany

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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John Rabe
71% (2009)
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The Ogre
64% (1996)
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Life Is Too Long
50% (2010)
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Fedora
68% (1978)
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Carlos
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Despair
65% (1978)
Elfenbein
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Deadly Web
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The Mistake
45% (1992)
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Flood
53% (2007)
Die Ratten
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Marija
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Super
62% (1984)