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Occupation
  
Actor

Name
  
John Gottowt

Years active
  
1913–1933

Role
  
Actor

Born
  
15 June 1881 (
1881-06-15
)
Lemberg, Austria-Hungary

Died
  
August 29, 1942, Wieliczka, Poland

Movies
  
Nosferatu, The Student of Prague, Waxworks, Algol, Das schwarze Los

Similar People
  
Henrik Galeen, Fritz Arno Wagner, Paul Wegener, Paul Leni, Leo Birinski

John gottowt


John Gottowt (15 June 1881 – 29 August 1942) was a German actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies.

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He was born as Isidor Gesang in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary. After his education in Vienna, he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1905, working for Max Reinhardt as an actor and director. Gottowt was mainly active in different theatres in Berlin as a character actor and director.

His first silent film appearance was in Paul Wegener’s Der Student von Prag ("The Student of Prague") (1913). In 1920 he appeared in Robert Wiene's Genuine and took the main role in the early science fiction film Algol ("Algol: Tragedy of Power"). In 1921 he played Professor Bulwer (Abraham van Helsing) in the classic silent film Nosferatu directed by F.W. Murnau.

Gottowt made also several films with his brother-in-law Henrik Galeen but, as a Jew, was banned in 1933 from working as a professional actor. After a few years in Denmark he moved to Krakow in Poland. He was murdered in 1942 by the SS in Wieliczka.

Filmography

Actor
1932
The Living Dead as
Beamter des Mechanischen Museums
1927
Prinz Louis Ferdinand as
2. Redakteur der Vossischen Zeitung
1926
Die Flucht in die Nacht as
Bediensteter
1926
Dürfen wir schweigen? as
Sein Faktotum
1924
Waxworks as
Inhaber der Panoptikums
1923
Der Geldteufel as
Black
1922
Der schwarze Stern
1922
Der falsche Dimitri as
Narr
1922
Elixiere des Teufels
1922
Menschenopfer
1922
Nosferatu as
Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer
1921
Pariserinnen as
Aristide
1921
Susanne Stranzky
1921
Brennendes Land
1920
Die Nacht der Königin Isabeau as
Buckliger Narr
1920
Algol: Tragedy of Power as
Algol
1920
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire as
Guyard
1920
Der verbotene Weg as
Lucas
1920
The Hunchback and the Dancer as
James Wilton
1920
Die tote Stunde
1920
Der rote Henker as
Narr
1919
Morphium
1919
Peer Gynt as
der Dovre-Alte
1919
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod as
der Dovre-Alte
1917
Die Prinzessin von Neutralien as
Milliardär Vandergold
1915
Die büßende Magdalena
1913
Das schwarze Los as
Brighella
1913
The Student of Prague as
Scapinelli, an Old Sorcerer
Director
1913
Das schwarze Los
Writer
1920
Der verbotene Weg
Thanks
2014
Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- Nosferatu (1ª Edición) (2014) - (in memory of)
Archive Footage
2014
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk as
Professor Bulwer

References

John Gottowt Wikipedia