| 1 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jrgenprochnow.jpg]] |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ->''"I found my escape valve at thirteen or fourteen, in acting. There was a group leader in our church who had studied drama and was putting together an amateur theater group. I immediately realized that this was a place where I could act out my desires and emotions."'' |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Jürgen Prochnow (born June 10, 1941 in Berlin) is a German-American actor. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | The [[StarMakingRole role that made him famous]] both in his birth country and internationally is the stern but [[AFatherToHisMen fatherly-to-his-men]] Captain-Lieutenant in the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII {{sub|story}}marine film ''Film/DasBoot'', one of his multiple collaborations with Creator/WolfgangPetersen. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | He's had roles in an odd variety of productions in his career since then, from Z/B-grade movies to A-grade Hollywoodian blockbusters and television series (he's not above MoneyDearBoy). He's also kind of [[{{Typecasting}} pigeonholed into playing villains]]. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | His older brother Dieter Prochnow is also an actor, though only in German language productions. |
| 12 | ---- |
| 13 | !!Selected filmography: |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * ''Series/{{Tatort}}'' (1973-2016) as Dieter Brodschella / Klaus Linder / Hans Rodenburg / Kesting |
| 16 | * ''The Tenderness of Wolves'' (1973) as Hehler |
| 17 | * ''The Brutalisation of Franz Blum'' (1974) as Franz Blum |
| 18 | * ''One or the Other of Us'' (1974) as Bernd Ziegenhals |
| 19 | * ''Literature/TheLostHonourOfKatharinaBlum'' (1975) as Ludwig Götten |
| 20 | * ''Film/DasBoot'' (1981) as the ''Kapitän-Leutnant'' |
| 21 | * ''Film/TheKeep'' (1983) as Capt. Klaus Woermann |
| 22 | * ''Film/{{Dune|1984}}'' (1984) as Duke Leto Atreides |
| 23 | * ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopII'' (1987) as Maxwell Dent |
| 24 | * ''Film/TheSeventhSign'' (1988) as David Bannon |
| 25 | * ''Film/{{Robin Hood|1991}}'' (1991) as Sir Miles Folcanet |
| 26 | * ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'' (1992) and ''[[Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces]]'' as Woodsman |
| 27 | * ''Film/InTheMouthOfMadness'' (1995) as Sutter Cane |
| 28 | * ''Film/JudgeDredd'' (1995) as Judge Griffin |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheEnglishPatient'' (1996) as Major Muller |
| 30 | * ''Film/AirForceOne'' (1997) as General Alexander Radek |
| 31 | * ''Film/TheReplacementKillers'' (1998) as Michael Kogan |
| 32 | * ''Film/WingCommander'' (1999) as Cdr. Paul Gerald |
| 33 | * ''Film/RipperLetterFromHell'' (2001) as Detective Kelso |
| 34 | * ''Film/HouseOfTheDead'' (2003) as Kirk |
| 35 | * ''See Arnold Run'' (2005) as Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger |
| 36 | * ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' (2006) as André Vernet |
| 37 | * ''Film/{{Beerfest}}'' (2006) as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen |
| 38 | * ''Series/ACaseForTwo'' (2007) as KHK Max Gerber |
| 39 | * ''Series/TwentyFour'' (2010) as Sergei Bazhaev |
| 40 | * ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' (2010-2014) as Mattias Draeger |
| 41 | * ''Film/HitmanAgent47'' (2015) as Tobias |
| 42 | * ''Lore'' (2018 TV series) as Andreas Gruber |
| 43 | * ''Film/AHiddenLife'' (2019) as Major Schlegel |
| 44 | * ''Film/TheLastRifleman'' (2023) as Friedrich Mueller |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext Creator / JurgenProchnow
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load
