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.
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- 2022 · Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror as General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2018 · Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre as Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2012 · Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor as Uncle John (archive footage)
- 2003 · Puppet Master: The Legacy as General Mueller (archive footage)
- 2002 · Best Ever Bond as General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2002 · Bond Girls Are Forever as General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2000 · Inside 'From Russia with Love' as Self
- 1997 · Prince Valiant as Erik the Old
- 1993 · The X-Files as Victor Klemper
- 1992 · Puppet Master III as General Mueller
- 1991 · Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III" as Himself
- 1989 · Tales from the Crypt as Mr. Hertz
- 1989 · She Knows Too Much as Foreigner
- 1988 · Freddy's Nightmares as
- 1988 · Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers as Uncle John
- 1988 · Gregory Peck: His Own Man as Self (archive footage)
- 1987 · Star Trek: The Next Generation as Kurt Mandl
- 1987 · The Living Daylights as General Anatol Gogol
- 1986 · Liberty as Rabbi Goteyel
- 1986 · Henry's Shadow as Efraim Grüner
- 1985 · Basic Training as Nabokov
- 1985 · MacGyver as Starkoss
- 1985 · MacGyver as General Barenov
- 1985 · Spenser: For Hire as
- 1985 · Lace 2 as General Zedd
- 1985 · KGB: The Secret War as Nicholai
- 1985 · A View to a Kill as General Gogol
- 1984 · Miami Vice as Max Klizer
- 1984 · Memed My Hawk as Sgt. Asim
- 1984 · Airwolf as Oberst Helmut Krüger / Hans Daubert
- 1983 · Masquerade as Steiner
- 1983 · Scarecrow and Mrs. King as
- 1983 · Kalabaliken i Bender as Storvesiren
- 1983 · Octopussy as Gogol
- 1983 · The Scarlet and the Black as Gen. Max Helm
- 1983 · The A-Team as Ramon DeJarro
- 1982 · Knight Rider as Simon Carascas
- 1982 · Hotel as
- 1982 · Cagney & Lacey as J.F. Blackwell
- 1982 · Skulden as Misjakov
- 1982 · Airline as
- 1981 · For Your Eyes Only as General Anatol Gogol
- 1980 · Cry of the Innocent as Jack Brewster
- 1979 · Cuba as Don Jose Pulido
- 1979 · The London Connection as Simmons
- 1979 · Moonraker as General Gogol
- 1978 · The Word as Hennig
- 1978 · The Boys from Brazil as Mundt
- 1978 · The Stud as Ben Khaled
- 1977 · The Professionals as Sam Baker
- 1977 · March or Die as Col. Lamont
- 1977 · The Assignment as Frankenheimer
- 1977 · The Spy Who Loved Me as General Anatol Gogol
- 1977 · Black Sunday as Colonel Riat
- 1974 · The Zoo Gang as Boucher
- 1972 · Our Miss Fred as Schmidt
- 1972 · Endless Night as Constantine
- 1969 · Softly Softly: Task Force as Chief Constable Cullen
- 1969 · Softly Softly: Task Force as Chief Constable Arthur Cullen
- 1969 · The File of the Golden Goose as George Leeds
- 1969 · The Main Chance as Gilbert Fletcher
- 1969 · The Main Chance as Raymond Berry
- 1968 · Cry WoIf as Ronan
- 1968 · The Champions as Captain Jost
- 1968 · Attack on the Iron Coast as Van Horst
- 1965 · The Troubleshooters as Ian Webster
- 1965 · Lord Jim as Captain of Patna
- 1964 · The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog as Benton
- 1963 · From Russia with Love as Morzeny
- 1963 · The Sentimental Agent as
- 1963 · Lancelot and Guinevere as Sir Cedric
- 1963 · 55 Days at Peking as Capt. Hoffman
- 1963 · The Human Jungle as Swenson
- 1962 · The Damned as Major Holland
- 1962 · The Saint as Hans Lasser
- 1962 · The Longest Day as German Soldier (uncredited)
- 1962 · The Road to Hong Kong as Dr. Zorbb
- 1962 · Studio Four as Gestapo Commissar Kehr
- 1962 · Z-Cars as
- 1961 · Stryker of the Yard as
- 1961 · The Devil's Daffodil as Oberinspektor Whiteside
- 1961 · The Guns of Navarone as Muesel
- 1960 · Circle of Deception as Phoney Ballard
- 1960 · The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll as Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
- 1960 · Circus of Horrors as Baron Von Gruber
- 1960 · Sink the Bismarck! as Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
- 1959 · No Hiding Place as
- 1959 · Interpol Calling as Zeist
- 1959 · Interpol Calling as Fischer
- 1959 · The Treasure of San Teresa as Hamburg inspector
- 1959 · Shake Hands with the Devil as 'Black & Tans' Sergeant
- 1959 · The Bandit Of Zhobe as Azhad Khan
- 1958 · I Was Monty's Double as German Colonel
- 1958 · Behind Closed Doors as
- 1958 · The Adventures of William Tell as Officer
- 1958 · The Man Inside as Profuno
- 1958 · Ice Cold in Alex as 1st German Officer
- 1956 · The Man Who Knew Too Much as Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
- 1956 · 1984 as Guard (uncredited)
- 1956 · The Count of Monte Cristo as Le Drue
- 1955 · Dixon of Dock Green as Gooch
- 1955 · Above Us the Waves as German Officer on Tirpitz
- 1954 · Duel in the Jungle as Jim
- 1953 · Albert R.N. as Feldwebel
- 1953 · The Red Beret as German Sentry
- 1953 · Desperate Moment as Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
- 1952 · The African Queen as Second Officer
- 1951 · Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared as Luzatto
- 1950 · Lilli Marlene as Director of Propaganda
- 1950 · The Wooden Horse as François - The Follower
- 1950 · Cairo Road as Prison Officer
- 1948 · No Orchids for Miss Blandish as uncredited
- 1943 · We Dive at Dawn as Luftwaffe Captain
- 1943 · Tomorrow We Live as Hans
- 1942 · Secret Mission as Lieutenant Langfeld
- 1942 · The Goose Steps Out as SS Guard