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Gottfried John
Known for: ActingGottfried 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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GoldenEye
as Colonel Ourumov 
Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Reinhold 
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
as Jules César 
Space Rangers
as Erich Weiss 
Fedora
as Kritos 
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Jochen Epp 
Proof of Life
as Eric Kessler 
Abraham
as Eliezer 
Flood
as Arthur Moyes 
Ruby Red
as Dr. White 
Augustus: The First Emperor
as Cicero 
The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Willi Klenze 
Abraham
as Eliezer 
The Gathering Storm
as Friedrich von Schroder 
John Rabe
as Dr. Oskar Trautmann 
In a Year with 13 Moons
as Anton Saitz 
Lili Marleen
as Aaron 
The Ogre
as Chief Forester 
Wings of Fame
as Zlatogorski 
Mary Magdalene
as Erode Antipa 
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
as Dr. Emmanuel Droz 
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Jörg Niemeyer 
Mata Hari
as Wolff 
The Mistake
as Jacob Alain 
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
as Herr Benjamenta 
Augustus: The First Emperor
as Cicero