Walter Gotell

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

102

Movies

Born: March 15, 1924 – May 5, 1997
From: Bonn, Germany

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Gotell (15 March 1926 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the James Bond film series. Gotell was born in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn (1943). He began to have more established roles by the early fifties, starring in The African Queen (1951), Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), 55 Days At Peking (1963), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), Lord Jim (1965), Black Sunday (1977), The Boys From Brazil (1978), and Cuba (1979). Gotell won the role of KGB General Anatol Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me for being a look-alike of the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Pavlovitch Beria. His first role in the James Bond films came in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love. Starting in the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the James Bond series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977. The character returned in Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987). As the Cold War developed, the role of leader of the KGB was seen to change attitudes to the West - from direct competitor to collaborator. His final appearance, as the Cold War began to become less imminent, sees him transferred to a different, more diplomatic role. Gotell is one of a few actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the film series (others being Joe Don Baker, Charles Gray and Richard Kiel). Throughout his career, Gotell also made numerous guest appearances in a wide array of television series. He played Chief Constable Cullen in Softly, Softly: Taskforce between 1969 and 1975. He guested in many series including Danger Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, The X-Files, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Cagney and Lacey, The Saint, and many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Gotell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

80 films

From Russia with Love

19637.1

The Longest Day

19627.6

The Guns of Navarone

19617.3

A View to a Kill

19856.3

The Living Daylights

19876.5

Moonraker

19796.2

For Your Eyes Only

19816.5

Octopussy

19836.4

The Spy Who Loved Me

19776.8

The Man Who Knew Too Much

19567.4

The African Queen

19527.3

55 Days at Peking

19636.9

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

19657.1

The Boys from Brazil

19786.7

Cuba

19795.5

Lord Jim

19656.8

1984

19566.5

The Scarlet and the Black

19837.0

Sink the Bismarck!

19606.8

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

19885.8

Black Sunday

19776.7

March or Die

19775.8

Prince Valiant

19975.2

Endless Night

19726.1

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge

19926.3

The Road to Hong Kong

19625.8

Lace 2

1985

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

19606.1

The Stud

19784.9

Ice Cold in Alex

19587.3

I Was Monty's Double

19586.9

The Dark Avenger

19556.4

Attack on the Iron Coast

19685.4

The File of the Golden Goose

19695.7

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor

20122.3

Shake Hands with the Devil

19596.5

Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre

20185.0

The Red Beret

19536.7

Circus of Horrors

19605.8

The Devil's Daffodil

19615.8

The Damned

19626.3

The Treasure of San Teresa

19596.4

Liberty

19866.0

Memed My Hawk

19846.0

Duel in the Jungle

19546.4

Above Us the Waves

19556.1

The Man Inside

19586.1

We Dive at Dawn

19436.3

Sword of Lancelot

19634.6

Puppet Master: The Legacy

20033.5

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

19486.1

Our Miss Fred

19726.1

The Goose Steps Out

19426.7

She Knows Too Much

19897.5

Cry of the Innocent

19806.0

Cairo Road

19506.4

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

19886.7

Basic Training

19853.8

The Devil's Agent

19626.7

The Assignment

19776.8

Secret Mission

19424.5

Albert R.N.

19537.3

Inside 'From Russia with Love'

20006.8

Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared

19516.5

Tomorrow We Live

19436.6

The London Connection

19797.8

Cry WoIf

19686.3

The Wooden Horse

19506.8

Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror

20222.5

Lilli Marlene

19506.3

The Mysterious Bullet

19559.0

The Bandit Of Zhobe

195910.0

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog

196410.0

Desperate Moment

19536.5

Kalabaliken i Bender

19833.3

Circle of Deception

19606.2

KGB: The Secret War

19856.4

Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"

19916.0

Henry's Shadow

19869.0

Flight Level 450

19807.0