Gottfried John

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Gottfried John (2003)

Gottfried John (born August 29, 1942 in Berlin ; † September 1, 2014 in Utting am Ammersee ) was a German actor , voice actor and radio play speaker .

Life

Gottfried John's father was an already married engineer whom he never met. He and his mother were evacuated to East Prussia during the Second World War . After the end of the war, he moved with her from city to city in Germany. After her custody was withdrawn, he grew up in homes until he was 15. In a home, he also broke his nose, which made his face distinctive. He then lived with his mother in Paris until 1960, then in Berlin, where he took acting lessons from Marlise Ludwig . He made his stage debut at the Schillertheater . In 1963 he played at the Landesbühne Hannover , in 1965 at the Theater Krefeld , then in Heidelberg.

He made his film debut in 1962 in a small role in the music film Café Oriental , before he was entrusted with the title role in the critical television homeland film Jaider - the lonely hunter in 1971 . Later he worked in nine films and television series as well as several theater productions with Rainer Werner Fassbinder . In 1982 he played the Spanish missionary, human rights activist and colonial critic Bartolomé de Las Casas in the television film The Return of the White Gods, directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz . His role as Reinhold Hoffmann in Fassbinder's 14-part Alfred Döblin film adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz was significant  - one of the longest films ever made to date.

John became internationally known in 1995 as General Ourumov in the James Bond film GoldenEye . A year later he starred in Der Unhold , directed by Volker Schlöndorff , based on a novel by Michel Tournier with John Malkovich in the title role. In 2000 he starred in Signs of Life - Proof of Life alongside Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe . In the same year his extensive autobiography Confessions of an Unbred One was published . For his role as Julius Caesar in the film Asterix and Obelix against Caesar , he was also awarded the Bavarian Film Prize for Best Supporting Actor in 2000 . In August 2006 he played the role of Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera in Berlin's Admiralspalast in a production by Klaus Maria Brandauer .

After living in the Belgian border town of Kelmis for twelve years, John lived with his wife in Utting am Ammersee , not far from Munich, from 2008 . Gottfried John died there on September 1, 2014 at the age of 72 of complications from cancer. The grave is in the cemetery of his last place of residence.

Filmography

Audio books

Radio plays (selection)

Literary works

Awards

Web links

Commons : Gottfried John  - Collection of Images

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cancer death at the age of 72 - mourning Gottfried John. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . September 2, 2014, archived from the original on September 6, 2014 ; Retrieved September 4, 2014 .
  2. ↑ How the lone wolf became a world star . In: FAZ.NET , September 2, 2014, accessed on September 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Gottfried John. Biography . In: Filmportal.de .
  4. ↑ a b The James Bond villain with the boxer nose . In: Die Welt , August 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ Gottfried John . In: Deutsches Filmhaus .de , September 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ Gottfried John lives in Germany again . In: Bunte , January 20, 2008.
  7. ↑ Gottfried John is dead . In: Focus , September 2, 2014, accessed on September 2, 2014.
  8. ↑ The strokes of fate of the Fassbinder stars . In: N24 , September 3, 2014, accessed on September 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Gottfried John
  10. ↑ Dracula . In: 1 Live , accessed February 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME John, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2014
Place of death Utting am Ammersee , Bavaria , Germany