Walter Gotell
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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
The X-Files
Victor Klemper
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Kurt Mandl
MacGyver
Starkoss
MacGyver
General Barenov
The A-Team
Ramon DeJarro
Miami Vice
Max Klizer
Knight Rider
Simon Carascas
Airwolf
Oberst Helmut Krüger / Hans Daubert
The Saint
Hans Lasser
Hotel
Douglas Sloane
Tales from the Crypt
Mr. Hertz
The Professionals
Sam Baker
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
From Russia with Love
Morzeny
Cagney & Lacey
J.F. Blackwell
Black Sunday
Colonel Riat
Spenser: For Hire
For Your Eyes Only
General Anatol Gogol
The Stud
Ben Khaled
Sunday Night Theatre
Tomorrow We Live
Hans
A View to a Kill
General Gogol
The Longest Day
German Soldier (uncredited)
Octopussy
Gogol
Freddy's Nightmares
Kemmerling
The Living Daylights
General Anatol Gogol
Z-Cars
The Champions
Captain Jost
Moonraker
General Gogol
Lord Jim
Captain of Patna
No Hiding Place
The Third Man
Rasmussen
Flight Level 450
Anchell
Cuba
Don Jose Pulido
I Was Monty's Double
German Colonel
Duel in the Jungle
Jim
Puppet Master III
General Mueller
Interpol Calling
Zeist
Interpol Calling
Fischer
The Spy Who Loved Me
General Anatol Gogol
Cry WoIf
Ronan
Studio 4
Gestapo Commissar Kehr
Masquerade
Steiner
Henry's Shadow
Efraim Grüner
Lace 2
General Zedd
Circus of Horrors
Baron Von Gruber
The Troubleshooters
Ian Webster
The Count of Monte Cristo
Le Drue
Memed My Hawk
Sgt. Asim
Above Us the Waves
German Officer on Tirpitz
The Main Chance
Gilbert Fletcher
The Main Chance
Raymond Berry
Prince Valiant
Erik the Old
The Guns of Navarone
Muesel
Liberty
Rabbi Goteyel
The Human Jungle
Swenson
The Adventures of William Tell
Officer
March or Die
Col. Lamont
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cry of the Innocent
Jack Brewster
Attack on the Iron Coast
Van Horst
Behind Closed Doors
The African Queen
Second Officer
Richard the Lionheart
Prince Otto
Dixon of Dock Green
Gooch
The Word
Hennig
Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited)
Softly Softly: Task Force
Chief Constable Cullen
Softly Softly: Task Force
Chief Constable Arthur Cullen
The Devil's Daffodil
Oberinspektor Whiteside
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Holten (uncredited)
The Boys from Brazil
Mundt
The Zoo Gang
Boucher
55 Days at Peking
Capt. Hoffman
1984
Guard (uncredited)
Sink the Bismarck!
Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Lord Swinton
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Lord Swinton (uncredited)
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
Gestapo officer
The Scarlet and the Black
Gen. Max Helm
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
Uncle John
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
Stryker of the Yard
We Dive at Dawn
Luftwaffe Captain
Ice Cold in Alex
1st German Officer
Skulden
Misjakov
Endless Night
Constantine
Secret Mission
Lieutenant Langfeld
The Road to Hong Kong
Dr. Zorbb
Sword of Lancelot
Sir Cedric
Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
Uncle John (archive footage)
Shake Hands with the Devil
'Black & Tans' Sergeant
Armchair Theatre
First Policeman
The Dark Avenger
French Castle Guard (uncredited)
The Damned
Major Holland
The Red Beret
German Sentry
Puppet Master: The Legacy
General Mueller (archive footage)
Albert R.N.
Feldwebel
The File of the Golden Goose
George Leeds
Our Miss Fred
Schmidt
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
Luzatto
The Assignment
Frankenheimer
The London Connection
Simmons
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
uncredited
Kalabaliken i Bender
Storvesiren
The Man Inside
Profuno
The Wooden Horse
François - The Follower
KGB: The Secret War
Nicholai
Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Self (archive footage)
The Mysterious Bullet
Police Constable (uncredited)
The Goose Steps Out
SS Guard
Basic Training
Nabokov
Cairo Road
Prison Officer
The Devil's Agent
Dr. Ritter (uncredited)
Circle of Deception
Phoney Ballard
Lilli Marlene
Director of Propaganda
She Knows Too Much
Foreigner
Inside 'From Russia with Love'
Self
The Treasure of San Teresa
Hamburg inspector
Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III"
Himself
The Bandit Of Zhobe
Azhad Khan
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
Benton
Desperate Moment
Ravitch's Servant-Henchman