Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Sept 6, 2014 7:50:45 GMT -6
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Gottfried John, who portrayed villainous Gen. Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov in the James Bond film “GoldenEye,” starring Pierce Brosnan, and was assocciated with German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, has died near Munich, Germany. He was 72.
The actor also appeared in Taylor Hackford’s Meg Ryan-Russell Crowe vehicle “Proof of Life” (1999); the same year he appeared in “Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar,” starring Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu.
He also guested on an episode of Lance Henricksen series “Millennium.”
John was among the stars of Fassbinder’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz” (1980) and “The Marriage of Maria Braun” (1979), and he also appeared in the director’s “Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven” (1975), “In a Year with 13 Moons” (1978) “Despair” (1978) and 1981’s “Lili Marleen,” in addition to Fassbinder’s TV work, 1972 miniseries “Eight Hours Are Not a Day,” 1973 miniseries “World on a Wire” and 1977’s “The Stationmaster’s Wife.”
The actor had most recently appeared in Felix Fuchssteiner’s 2013 film “Rubinrot.”
Gottfried John, who portrayed villainous Gen. Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov in the James Bond film “GoldenEye,” starring Pierce Brosnan, and was assocciated with German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, has died near Munich, Germany. He was 72.
The actor also appeared in Taylor Hackford’s Meg Ryan-Russell Crowe vehicle “Proof of Life” (1999); the same year he appeared in “Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar,” starring Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu.
He also guested on an episode of Lance Henricksen series “Millennium.”
John was among the stars of Fassbinder’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz” (1980) and “The Marriage of Maria Braun” (1979), and he also appeared in the director’s “Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven” (1975), “In a Year with 13 Moons” (1978) “Despair” (1978) and 1981’s “Lili Marleen,” in addition to Fassbinder’s TV work, 1972 miniseries “Eight Hours Are Not a Day,” 1973 miniseries “World on a Wire” and 1977’s “The Stationmaster’s Wife.”
The actor had most recently appeared in Felix Fuchssteiner’s 2013 film “Rubinrot.”