
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.

GoldenEye
1995 · as Colonel Ourumov

Proof of Life
2000 · as Eric Kessler

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 · as Jules César

Flood
2007 · as Arthur Moyes

Renzo e Lucia
2004 · as Innominato

Ruby Red
2013 · as Dr. White

Fedora
1978 · as Kritos

Emerald Green
2016 · as Dr. White (archive footage)

John Rabe
2009 · as Dr. Oskar Trautmann

Wings of Fame
1990 · as Zlatogorski

The Ogre
1996 · as Chief Forester

The Gathering Storm
2002 · as Friedrich von Schroder

The Marriage of Maria Braun
1979 · as Willi Klenze

Deadly Web
1994 · as Kommissar Max Beckmann

Night of the Fox
1990 · as Hofer

Abraham
1993 · as Eliezer

Lili Marleen
1981 · as Aaron

Am I Beautiful?
1998 · as Herbert