FrameThrower · Actors · Gottfried John
Gottfried John
5 films · 312 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1975–1995
Born 29 August 1942 · Berlin, Germany · died 1 September 2014
Gottfried John was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in many of the filmmaker's projects between 1975 and his death in 1982, including Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun , and Berlin Alexanderplatz. His distinctive, gaunt appearance saw him he frequently cast as villains, and he is best known to audiences for his role as the corrupt General Arkady Orumov in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and for his comedic turn as Julius Caesar in Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar, the latter for which he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
How their films are shot
Measured across 312 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gottfried takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Gottfried takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
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