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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Gotell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Second Officer
The African Queen
Morzeny
From Russia with Love
General Anatol Gogol
The Spy Who Loved Me
General Anatol Gogol
For Your Eyes Only
Gogol
Octopussy
General Gogol
A View to a Kill
General Anatol Gogol
The Living Daylights
Jack Brewster
Cry of the Innocent
Erik the Old
Prince Valiant
Dr. Zorbb
The Road to Hong Kong
Col. Lamont
March or Die
General Mueller
Puppet Master III
Uncle John
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
Baron Von Gruber
Circus of Horrors
Luftwaffe Captain
We Dive at Dawn
Himself
Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"
George Leeds
The File of the Golden Goose
Colonel Riat
Black Sunday
Major Holland
The Damned
Ben Khaled
The Stud
Nabokov
Basic Training
Van Horst
Attack on the Iron Coast
Phoney Ballard
Circle of Deception
General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited)
Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
Desperate Moment
Hans
Tomorrow We Live
Hamburg inspector
The Treasure of San Teresa
Rabbi Goteyel
Liberty
Director of Propaganda
Lilli Marlene
Prison Officer
Cairo Road
'Black & Tans' Sergeant
Shake Hands with the Devil
Schmidt
Our Miss Fred
Uncle John (archive footage)
Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
Jim
Duel in the Jungle
General Gogol
Moonraker
Efraim Grüner
Skuggan av Henry
Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Captain of Patna
Lord Jim
Nicholai
KGB: The Secret War
uncredited
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Self (archive footage)
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Simmons
The London Connection
General Zedd
Lace 2
Foreigner
She Knows Too Much
Muesel
The Guns of Navarone
Luzatto
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1st German Officer
Ice Cold in Alex
Sir Cedric
Sword of Lancelot
German Soldier (uncredited)
The Longest Day
Mundt
The Boys from Brazil
Gen. Max Helm
The Scarlet and the Black
Storvesiren
Kalabaliken i Bender
Don Jose Pulido
Cuba
Sgt. Asim
Memed My Hawk
German Sentry
The Red Beret
Ronan
Cry WoIf
Lieutenant Langfeld
Secret Mission
General Mueller (archive footage)
Puppet Master: The Legacy
Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited)
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
Self
Inside 'From Russia with Love'
Feldwebel
Albert R.N.
Guard (uncredited)
1984
Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Sink the Bismarck!
SS Guard
The Goose Steps Out
Profuno
The Man Inside
German Officer on Tirpitz
Above Us the Waves
François - The Follower
The Wooden Horse
Oberinspektor Whiteside
Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen
Constantine
Endless Night
German Colonel
I Was Monty's Double
Frankenheimer
Uppdraget
Azhad Khan
The Bandit Of Zhobe
Capt. Hoffman
55 Days at Peking
Benton
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
Holten (uncredited)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Anchell
Flygnivå 450
Police Constable (uncredited)
The Mysterious Bullet
French Castle Guard (uncredited)
The Dark Avenger
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
79
Gender
Male
Birthday
1924-03-15
Place of Birth
Bonn, Germany
Also Known As
Walter Jack Gotell