Walter Gotell
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1924-03-15
Day of Death
1997-05-05 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Bonn, Germany
Walter Gotell
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.
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Known For
Acting
(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)
Bond Girls Are Forever
as General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2002)
Best Ever Bond
as General Gogol (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2000)
(1997)
Prince Valiant
as Erik the Old
(1992)
Puppet Master III
as General Mueller
(1991)
(1989)
She Knows Too Much
as Foreigner
(1988)
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
as Uncle John
(1988)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
as Self (archive footage)
(1987)
The Living Daylights
as General Anatol Gogol
(1986)
Liberty
as Rabbi Goteyel
(1986)
Henry's Shadow
as Efraim Grüner
(1985)
A View to a Kill
as General Gogol
(1985)
Lace 2
as General Zedd
(1985)
Basic Training
as Nabokov
(1985)
KGB: The Secret War
as Nicholai
(1984)
Memed My Hawk
as Sgt. Asim
(1983)
Octopussy
as Gogol
(1983)
The Scarlet and the Black
as Gen. Max Helm
(1983)
Kalabaliken i Bender
as Storvesiren
(1981)
For Your Eyes Only
as General Anatol Gogol
(1980)
Cry of the Innocent
as Jack Brewster
(1979)
Moonraker
as General Gogol
(1979)
Cuba
as Don Jose Pulido
(1979)
The London Connection
as Simmons
(1978)
The Boys from Brazil
as Mundt
(1978)
The Stud
as Ben Khaled
(1977)
The Spy Who Loved Me
as General Anatol Gogol
(1977)
Black Sunday
as Colonel Riat
(1977)
March or Die
as Col. Lamont
(1977)
The Assignment
as Frankenheimer
(1972)
Endless Night
as Constantine
(1972)
Our Miss Fred
as Schmidt
(1969)
The File of the Golden Goose
as George Leeds
(1968)
Attack on the Iron Coast
as Van Horst
(1968)
Cry WoIf
as Ronan
(1965)
Lord Jim
as Captain of Patna
(1964)
(1963)
From Russia with Love
as Morzeny
(1963)
55 Days at Peking
as Capt. Hoffman
(1963)
Sword of Lancelot
as Sir Cedric
(1962)
The Longest Day
as German Soldier (uncredited)
(1962)
The Road to Hong Kong
as Dr. Zorbb
(1962)
The Damned
as Major Holland
(1961)
The Guns of Navarone
as Muesel
(1961)
The Devil's Daffodil
as Oberinspektor Whiteside
(1960)
Sink the Bismarck!
as Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
(1960)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
(1960)
Circus of Horrors
as Baron Von Gruber
(1960)
Circle of Deception
as Phoney Ballard
(1959)
Shake Hands with the Devil
as 'Black & Tans' Sergeant
(1959)
The Bandit Of Zhobe
as Azhad Khan
(1959)
The Treasure of San Teresa
as Hamburg inspector
(1958)
Ice Cold in Alex
as 1st German Officer
(1958)
I Was Monty's Double
as German Colonel
(1958)
The Man Inside
as Profuno
(1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
(1956)
1984
as Guard (uncredited)
(1955)
Above Us the Waves
as German Officer on Tirpitz
(1954)
Duel in the Jungle
as Jim
(1953)
The Red Beret
as German Sentry
(1953)
Desperate Moment
as Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
(1953)
Albert R.N.
as Feldwebel
(1952)
The African Queen
as Second Officer
(1951)
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
as Luzatto
(1950)
The Wooden Horse
as François - The Follower
(1950)
Cairo Road
as Prison Officer
(1950)
Lilli Marlene
as Director of Propaganda
(1948)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
as uncredited
(1943)
Tomorrow We Live
as Hans
(1943)
We Dive at Dawn
as Luftwaffe Captain
(1942)
Secret Mission
as Lieutenant Langfeld
(1942)
The Goose Steps Out
as SS Guard