FrameThrower · Actors · Jürgen Prochnow
Jürgen Prochnow
3 films · 164 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1975–1994
Born 10 June 1941 · Berlin, Germany
Jürgen Prochnow is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.
He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 164 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1975–1994
- Steiger Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 164 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jürgen takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 63% of their frames are night, 62% low key — the look of the work Jürgen takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 164 frames from Jürgen Prochnow's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.