# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gottfried-john
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:41:59.081Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gottfried-john"
name: "Gottfried John"
slug: "gottfried-john"
description: "Gottfried John was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A longtime collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in nine of his films between 1975 and 1981, the year before Fassbinder's death, including Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun, and Berlin Alexanderplatz. His distinctive, gaunt appearance saw him frequently cast as villains, and he is best known to audiences for his role as the corrupt General Arkady Ourumov in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye and his comedic turn as Julius Caesar in Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), for the latter of which he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor."
tagline: "German actor (1942-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gottfried_John_(Berlinale_2012)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1942-08-29"
deathDate: "2014-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump