Walter Gotell
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Gotell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
From Russia with Love (1963)
as Morzeny
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
as General Anatol Gogol
The Living Daylights (1987)
as General Anatol Gogol
A View to a Kill (1985)
as General Gogol
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
as General Anatol Gogol
Octopussy (1983)
as Gogol
Moonraker (1979)
as General Gogol
The Longest Day (1962)
as German Soldier (uncredited)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
as Muesel
Cuba (1979)
as Don Jose Pulido
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
as Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
The African Queen (1952)
as Second Officer
Lord Jim (1965)
as Captain of Patna
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
as Mundt
55 Days at Peking (1963)
as Capt. Hoffman
Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1992)
as General Mueller
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
as Holten (uncredited)
Cry Wolf (1968)
as Ronan
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
as Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
as Gen. Max Helm
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
as Uncle John
March or Die (1977)
as Col. Lamont
Lace 2 (1985)
as General Zedd
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
as Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
as Van Horst
1984 (1956)
as Guard (uncredited)
Memed My Hawk (1984)
as Sgt. Asim
Prince Valiant (1997)
as Erik the Old
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
as 1st German Officer
Above Us the Waves (1955)
as German Officer on Tirpitz
The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)
as Hamburg inspector
Cry of the Innocent (1980)
as Jack Brewster
Black Sunday (1977)
as Colonel Riat
Endless Night (1972)
as Constantine
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
as German Colonel
Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor (2012)
as Uncle John (archive footage)
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
as 'Black & Tans' Sergeant
Circus of Horrors (1960)
as Baron Von Gruber
Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror (2022)
as General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited)
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre (2018)
as Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dark Avenger (1955)
as French Castle Guard (uncredited)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
as uncredited
The Damned (1962)
as Major Holland
Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003)
as General Mueller (archive footage)
The Stud (1978)
as Ben Khaled
The Devil's Daffodil (1961)
as Oberinspektor Whiteside
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
as Dr. Zorbb
Duel in the Jungle (1954)
as Jim
The Devil's Agent (1962)
as Dr. Ritter (uncredited)
The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
as George Leeds
The Red Beret (1953)
as German Sentry
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
as Luftwaffe Captain
Sword of Lancelot (1963)
as Sir Cedric
Henry's Shadow (1986)
as Efraim Grüner
Basic Training (1985)
as Nabokov
Liberty (1986)
as Rabbi Goteyel
Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III" (1991)
as Himself
KGB: The Secret War (1985)
as Nicholai
Inside 'From Russia with Love' (2000)
as Self
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared (1951)
as Luzatto
Gregory Peck: His Own Man (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog (1964)
as Benton
She Knows Too Much (1989)
as Foreigner
The Man Inside (1958)
as Profuno
The Goose Steps Out (1942)
as SS Guard
Kalabaliken i Bender (1983)
as Storvesiren
Our Miss Fred (1972)
as Heinrich Schmidt (uncredited)
Cairo Road (1950)
as Prison Officer
The Bandit Of Zhobe (1959)
as Azhad Khan
Circle of Deception (1960)
as Phoney Ballard
The Wooden Horse (1950)
as François - The Follower
Lilli Marlene (1950)
as Director of Propaganda
The London Connection (1979)
as Simmons
The Assignment (1977)
as Frankenheimer
Secret Mission (1942)
as Lieutenant Langfeld
Tomorrow We Live (1943)
as Hans
Albert R.N. (1953)
as Feldwebel
Flight Level 450 (1980)
as Anchell
The Mysterious Bullet (1955)
as Police Constable (uncredited)
Desperate Moment (1953)
as Ravitch's Servant-Henchman