John Gottowt
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday15 June 1881
Died29 August 1942 (age 61)
Place of birthLemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Known credits19
Biography
John Gottowt (born Isidor Gesang; 15 June 1881 – 29 August 1942) was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies. Gottowt was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. After his education in Vienna, he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1905, working for Max Reinhardt as an actor and director. Gottowt was mainly active in different theatres in Berlin as a character actor and director. His first silent film appearance was in Paul Wegener’s Der Student von Prag ("The Student of Prague") (1913). In 1920 he ap…
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
2025 · Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer
The Living Dead
1932 · Beamter des Mechanischen Museums
The Twelfth Hour
1930 · Sanitarium Doctor (Archive footage)
The Flight in the Night
1926 · Bediensteter
Waxworks
1924 · Owner of the Waxworks
Der schwarze Stern
1922
Nosferatu
1922 · Professor Bulwer
Parisian Women
1921 · Aristide
Brennendes Land
1921 · Wladislaus
The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920 · Buckliger Narr
Algol: Tragedy of Power
1920 · Algol
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
1920 · Guyard
The Hunchback and the Dancer
1920 · James Wilton
Der rote Henker
1920 · L'Angely
Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend
1919
Morphium
1919
Die Prinzessin von Neutralien
1917 · The billionaire Vandergold
Das schwarze Los
1913 · Brighella
Das schwarze Los
1913 · Director
The Student of Prague
1913 · Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer
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