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Acting

Known Credits

152

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-06-10 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Also Known As

یورگن پروچنو

Jürgen Prochnow

Biography

Jürgen Prochnow (born 10 June 1941) is a German-American actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.

He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner.

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Acting

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The Guardian Angel as Albert Klosser

2023		The Last Rifleman as Friedrich Mueller
2023		U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' as Self (archive footage)

2021		The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021		Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story as Self - Das Boot Actor

2020		The old Man and the Pain in the Neck as Wilhelm Schürmann
2020		A Handful of Water as Konrad

2019		A Hidden Life as Major Schlegel
2019		Real Men as Himself - Actor

2017		Damascus Cover as Franz Ludin
2017		The Final Journey as Eduard
2017		Old Agent Men as Kern

2016		Interference as Herr Dryser
2016		The Dark Side of the Moon as Pius Ott

2015		Quizduell-Olymp as Self
2015		Remember as Rudy Kurlander #4
2015		Hitman: Agent 47 as Tobias
2015		Wer weiß denn sowas? as Self

2014		Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
2014		Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces as Woodsman

2013		Die Kinder meiner Tochter as Ernst Blessing
2013		Ohne Gnade as Helmutchen
2013		Company of Heroes as Luca Gruenewald
2013		Ein schmaler Grat as Uwe Wolfmann

2012

Die Schuld der Erben as Kurt Hanson

2010		Amigo - Dead on Arrival as Fredo Kovacs
2010		Sinners and Saints as Mr. Rhykin
2010		Spear of Destiny as Baron Von Haan

2009		Oko ve zdi
2009		NCIS: Los Angeles as Mattias Draeger

2008		Merlin and the War of the Dragons as The Mage
2008		Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker as Self
2008		La conjura de El Escorial as Espinosa

2007		Ohne einander as Ernest
2007		Primeval as Jacob Krieg

2006		Schröders wunderbare Welt as John Gregory
2006		Beerfest as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
2006		The Celestine Prophecy as Jensen
2006		The Da Vinci Code as André Vernet
2006		Chain Reaction as Police Man
2006		Semperopernball as Self

2005		Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005) as Self
2005		See Arnold Run as Arnold Schwarzenegger
2005		Julie, chevalier de Maupin as Le baron Hengen

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself as Michael Kogan in The Replacement Killers (archive footage)

2003		The Poet as Vashon
2003		Baltic Storm as Erik Westermark
2003		House of the Dead as Kirk
2003		Nachtschicht as Friedrich Otto Winterstein
2003		Heart of America as Harold Lewis

2002

Davon stirbt man nicht as Everett Burns

2001		Dark Asylum as Dr. Fallon
2001		Ripper: Letter from Hell as Detective Kelso
2001		Gunblast Vodka as Sacha Roublev
2001		Last Run as Andrus Bukarin
2001		The Elite as Avi
2001		Jack the Dog as Klaus

2000		Final Ascent as Paul
2000		The Last Stop as Fritz
2000		Padre Pio: Miracle Man as Visitatore
2000		Poison as Carl Krieger

1999		The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000 as Hans Hagemann
1999		Volle Kanne as Self
1999		Heaven's Fire as Quentin Darby
1999		Der blonde Affe as Jan Vleuten
1999		Esther as Haman
1999		Wing Commander as Cdr. Paul Gerald
1999		The Fall as József Kovács
1999		Beckmann as Self
1999		The Directors as Self

1998		From China with Love as Paul Konen
1998		Human Bomb as Gerhardt Dach
1998		The Replacement Killers as Michael Kogan
1998		The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self

1997		Air Force One as Alexander Radek
1997		Leute heute as Self
1997		DNA as Dr. Carl Wessinger
1997		The Cry of Love as Holger

1996		The English Patient as Major Muller
1996		The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century as Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
1996		On Dangerous Ground as Carl Morgan
1996		Alisea and the Dream Prince as Kurdok

1995		Fesseln as Günther
1995		Tödliche Wahl as Alex Bronner
1995		Tödliche Wahl as Alex Bronner
1995		Judge Dredd as Judge Griffin
1995		Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' as Himself
1995		In the Mouth of Madness as Sutter Cane

1994		The Other Side of the Law as Simon McQuarie
1994		Guns of Honor as Jack Neumann
1994		Trigger Fast as Jack Neumann
1994		Lie Down with Lions as Marteau

1993		Die Wildnis as Brenner
1993		The Last Border as Duke
1993		Der Fall Lucona as Jorunalist Strasser
1993		The Fire Next Time as Larry Richter
1993		Body of Evidence as Dr. Alan Paley

1992		Jewels as Joachim von Mannheim
1992		Interceptor as Phillips
1992		Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as Woodsman
1992		Hurricane Smith as Charlie Dowd

1991		Robin Hood as Sir Miles Folcanet
1991		DAS! as Self

1990		The Man Inside as Günter Wallraff
1990		The Schoolmaster as Rozinsky
1990		Kill Cruise as The Skipper
1990		The Fourth War as Col. Valachev

1989

A Dry White Season as Captain Stolz

1988

The Seventh Sign as David Bannon

1987		Beverly Hills Cop II as Maxwell Dent
1987		Devil's Paradise as Escher
1987		Terminus as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver

1986

Killing Cars as Ralph Korda

1985		Murder: By Reason of Insanity as Adam Berwid
1985		The Cop & the Girl as Der Bulle
1985		Forbidden as Fritz Friedländer
1985		Blitz
1985		Das Boot as Der Alte

1984		Dune as Duke Leto Atreides
1984		Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self

1983		The Keep as Captain Klaus Woermann
1983		Love is Forever as General Siegfried Kaplan
1983		Destination Dune as Self

1982

Krieg und Frieden as Kevin

1981		Das Boot: Behind The Scenes as Self
1981		Das Boot as Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
1981		A Case For Two as KHK Max Gerber
1981		Wetten, dass..? as Self

1980

So weit das Auge reicht as Alexander Späh

1979		Bayerischer Filmpreis as Self
1979		Kotte as Günther Kotte
1979		NDR Talk Show as Self

1977		Operation Ganymed as Oss
1977		The Consequence as Martin Kurath

1976		Hans in Luck as Hans Schmidtke
1976		Schaurige Geschichten as Piet
1976		Kölner Treff as Self
1976		Shirin's Wedding as Aida

1975

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum as Ludwig Götten

1974		One or the Other of Us as Bernd Ziegenhals
1974		The Brutalization of Franz Blum as Franz Blum

1973

Tenderness of the Wolves as Hehler

1972		Auf Befehl erschossen as Franz Sass
1972		Knast as Roloff
1972		The Merchant of Four Seasons as Man at the Meeting Table
1972		Zoff as Joky

1970		Unternehmer as Arnold
1970		Scene of the Crime as Dieter Brodschella
1970		Scene of the Crime as Klaus Linder
1970		Scene of the Crime as Hans Rodenburg
1970		Scene of the Crime as Kesting

1948

BAMBI Awards as Self