1924-03-15 Bonn, Germany
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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Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror | General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2022-12-30 |
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Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre | Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2018-09-26 |
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Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor | Uncle John (archive footage) | 2012-03-23 |
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Puppet Master: The Legacy | General Mueller (archive footage) | 2003-12-16 |
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Best Ever Bond | General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-11-22 |
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Bond Girls Are Forever | General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-11-06 |
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Inside 'From Russia with Love' | Self | 2000-06-23 |
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Prince Valiant | Erik the Old | 1997-07-24 |
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Puppet Master III | General Mueller | 1992-05-01 |
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Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III" | Himself | 1991-01-01 |
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She Knows Too Much | Foreigner | 1989-01-29 |
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Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers | Uncle John | 1988-08-26 |
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Gregory Peck: His Own Man | Self (archive footage) | 1988-03-08 |
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The Living Daylights | General Anatol Gogol | 1987-06-29 |
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Skuggan av Henry | Efraim Grüner | 1986-01-06 |
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Liberty | Rabbi Goteyel | 1986-06-23 |
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Lace 2 | General Zedd | 1985-09-01 |
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Basic Training | Nabokov | 1985-11-01 |
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KGB: The Secret War | Nicholai | 1985-07-18 |
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A View to a Kill | General Gogol | 1985-05-24 |
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Memed My Hawk | Sgt. Asim | 1984-05-10 |
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Octopussy | Gogol | 1983-06-05 |
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The Scarlet and the Black | Gen. Max Helm | 1983-02-02 |
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Kalabaliken i Bender | Storvesiren | 1983-08-26 |
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For Your Eyes Only | General Anatol Gogol | 1981-06-24 |
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Cry of the Innocent | Jack Brewster | 1980-06-15 |
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Cuba | Don Jose Pulido | 1979-12-21 |
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Moonraker | General Gogol | 1979-06-26 |
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The London Connection | Simmons | 1979-12-21 |
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The Stud | Ben Khaled | 1978-08-17 |
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The Boys from Brazil | Mundt | 1978-10-05 |
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Black Sunday | Colonel Riat | 1977-04-01 |
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March or Die | Col. Lamont | 1977-09-08 |
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The Spy Who Loved Me | General Anatol Gogol | 1977-07-07 |
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Uppdraget | Frankenheimer | 1977-07-11 |
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Our Miss Fred | Schmidt | 1972-12-14 |
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Endless Night | Constantine | 1972-10-05 |
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The File of the Golden Goose | George Leeds | 1969-10-13 |
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Attack on the Iron Coast | Van Horst | 1968-06-05 |
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Cry WoIf | Ronan | 1968-12-01 |
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Lord Jim | Captain of Patna | 1965-02-15 |
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The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog | Benton | 1964-01-05 |
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55 Days at Peking | Capt. Hoffman | 1963-05-06 |
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From Russia with Love | Morzeny | 1963-10-10 |
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Sword of Lancelot | Sir Cedric | 1963-06-02 |
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The Longest Day | German Soldier (uncredited) | 1962-09-25 |
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The Road to Hong Kong | Dr. Zorbb | 1962-03-29 |
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The Damned | Major Holland | 1962-11-16 |
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Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen | Oberinspektor Whiteside | 1961-07-20 |
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The Guns of Navarone | Muesel | 1961-04-27 |
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Circle of Deception | Phoney Ballard | 1960-11-01 |
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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll | Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited) | 1960-10-24 |
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Sink the Bismarck! | Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited) | 1960-02-11 |
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Circus of Horrors | Baron Von Gruber | 1960-04-01 |
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The Treasure of San Teresa | Hamburg inspector | 1959-07-21 |
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Shake Hands with the Devil | 'Black & Tans' Sergeant | 1959-06-24 |
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The Bandit Of Zhobe | Azhad Khan | 1959-04-01 |
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Ice Cold in Alex | 1st German Officer | 1958-06-24 |
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The Man Inside | Profuno | 1958-09-07 |
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I Was Monty's Double | German Colonel | 1958-10-21 |
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1984 | Guard (uncredited) | 1956-03-06 |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much | Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited) | 1956-05-16 |
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Above Us the Waves | German Officer on Tirpitz | 1955-03-29 |
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Duel in the Jungle | Jim | 1954-06-30 |
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Desperate Moment | Ravitch's Servant-Henchman | 1953-03-17 |
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The Red Beret | German Sentry | 1953-08-11 |
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Albert R.N. | Feldwebel | 1953-11-23 |
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The African Queen | Second Officer | 1952-01-07 |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared | Luzatto | 1951-04-01 |
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Cairo Road | Prison Officer | 1950-06-21 |
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Lilli Marlene | Director of Propaganda | 1950-12-08 |
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The Wooden Horse | François - The Follower | 1950-10-16 |
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish | uncredited | 1948-04-15 |
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We Dive at Dawn | Luftwaffe Captain | 1943-04-15 |
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Tomorrow We Live | Hans | 1943-04-05 |
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Secret Mission | Lieutenant Langfeld | 1942-10-05 |
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The Goose Steps Out | SS Guard | 1942-08-01 |
