Walter Gotell
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.
The African Queen
(Second Officer)
From Russia with Love
(Morzeny)
The Spy Who Loved Me
(General Anatol Gogol)
For Your Eyes Only
(General Anatol Gogol)
Octopussy
(Gogol)
A View to a Kill
(General Gogol)
The Living Daylights
(General Anatol Gogol)
Cry of the Innocent
(Jack Brewster)
Prince Valiant
(Erik the Old)
The Road to Hong Kong
(Dr. Zorbb)
March or Die
(Col. Lamont)
Puppet Master III
(General Mueller)
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
(Uncle John)
Circus of Horrors
(Baron Von Gruber)
We Dive at Dawn
(Luftwaffe Captain)
Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"
(Himself)
The File of the Golden Goose
(George Leeds)
Black Sunday
(Colonel Riat)
The Damned
(Major Holland)
The Stud
(Ben Khaled)
Basic Training
(Nabokov)
Attack on the Iron Coast
(Van Horst)
Circle of Deception
(Phoney Ballard)
Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
(General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited))
Desperate Moment
(Ravitch's Servant-Henchman)
Tomorrow We Live
(Hans)
The Treasure of San Teresa
(Hamburg inspector)
Liberty
(Rabbi Goteyel)
Lilli Marlene
(Director of Propaganda)
Cairo Road
(Prison Officer)
Shake Hands with the Devil
('Black & Tans' Sergeant)
Our Miss Fred
(Schmidt)
Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
(Uncle John (archive footage))
Duel in the Jungle
(Jim)
Moonraker
(General Gogol)
Henry's Shadow
(Efraim Grüner)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
(Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited))
Lord Jim
(Captain of Patna)
KGB: The Secret War
(Nicholai)
Bond Girls Are Forever
(General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited))
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
(uncredited)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
(Self (archive footage))
Best Ever Bond
(General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited))
The London Connection
(Simmons)
Lace 2
(General Zedd)
She Knows Too Much
(Foreigner)
The Guns of Navarone
(Muesel)
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
(Luzatto)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
(Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited))
Ice Cold in Alex
(1st German Officer)
Lancelot and Guinevere
(Sir Cedric)
The Longest Day
(German Soldier (uncredited))
The Boys from Brazil
(Mundt)
The Scarlet and the Black
(Gen. Max Helm)
Kalabaliken i Bender
(Storvesiren)
Cuba
(Don Jose Pulido)
Memed My Hawk
(Sgt. Asim)
The Red Beret
(German Sentry)
Cry WoIf
(Ronan)
Secret Mission
(Lieutenant Langfeld)
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
(Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited))
Puppet Master: The Legacy
(General Mueller (archive footage))
Inside 'From Russia with Love'
(Self)
Albert R.N.
(Feldwebel)
1984
(Guard (uncredited))
Sink the Bismarck!
(Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited))
The Goose Steps Out
(SS Guard)
The Man Inside
(Profuno)
Above Us the Waves
(German Officer on Tirpitz)
The Wooden Horse
(François - The Follower)
The Devil's Daffodil
(Oberinspektor Whiteside)
Endless Night
(Constantine)
I Was Monty's Double
(German Colonel)
The Assignment
(Frankenheimer)
The Bandit Of Zhobe
(Azhad Khan)
55 Days at Peking
(Capt. Hoffman)
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
(Benton)
Spenser: For Hire
Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Kurt Mandl)
The A-Team
(Ramon DeJarro)
Miami Vice
(Max Klizer)
Airwolf
(Oberst Helmut Krüger / Hans Daubert)
Z-Cars
Knight Rider
(Simon Carascas)
Tales from the Crypt
(Mr. Hertz)
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Hotel
MacGyver
(Starkoss)
Cagney & Lacey
(J.F. Blackwell)
Freddy's Nightmares
Interpol Calling
(Zeist)
Dixon of Dock Green
(Gooch)
The Champions
(Captain Jost)
Interpol Calling
(Fischer)
The Sentimental Agent
The Count of Monte Cristo
(Le Drue)
The Word
(Hennig)
No Hiding Place
Airline
The Main Chance
(Gilbert Fletcher)
The Adventures of William Tell
(Officer)
Stryker of the Yard
Studio Four
(Gestapo Commissar Kehr)
Behind Closed Doors
Masquerade
(Steiner)
Softly Softly: Task Force
(Chief Constable Cullen)
The Main Chance
(Raymond Berry)
The Zoo Gang
(Boucher)
The X-Files
(Victor Klemper)
Softly Softly: Task Force
(Chief Constable Arthur Cullen)
The Human Jungle
(Swenson)
Skulden
(Misjakov)
MacGyver
(General Barenov)
The Saint
(Hans Lasser)
The Professionals
(Sam Baker)
The Troubleshooters
(Ian Webster)
The Third Man
(Rasmussen)
Sunday Night Theatre
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
(Lord Swinton)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
(Lord Swinton (uncredited))