Walter Gotell

Acting March 15, 1924 (73 years old) May 5, 1997 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.

Walter Gotell

Biography

Movies 80

The Spy Who Loved Me

From Russia with Love

For Your Eyes Only

Moonraker

A View to a Kill

Octopussy

The Guns of Navarone

The Living Daylights

The Longest Day

The Man Who Knew Too Much

55 Days at Peking

The African Queen

The Boys from Brazil

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Ice Cold in Alex

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge

The Scarlet and the Black

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers

Prince Valiant

Sink the Bismarck!

Cuba

Lord Jim

1984

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor

The Road to Hong Kong

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll

Black Sunday

Attack on the Iron Coast

March or Die

The File of the Golden Goose

I Was Monty's Double

Puppet Master: The Legacy

Duel in the Jungle

The Devil's Daffodil

Above Us the Waves

The Damned

Endless Night

Lace 2

The Wooden Horse

The Stud

Circus of Horrors

Basic Training

Shake Hands with the Devil

Sword of Lancelot

The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog

We Dive at Dawn

The Red Beret

Cry of the Innocent

The Devil's Agent

The Dark Avenger

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

Cry Wolf

Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre

The Goose Steps Out

The Treasure of San Teresa

Our Miss Fred

The Man Inside

The London Connection

Memed My Hawk

Cairo Road

Inside 'From Russia with Love'

Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"

Secret Mission

Lilli Marlene

She Knows Too Much

Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror

Liberty

KGB: The Secret War

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

Tomorrow We Live

Circle of Deception

The Bandit Of Zhobe

Albert R.N.

The Assignment

Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared

Desperate Moment

Kalabaliken i Bender