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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 appeared in Robert Wiene's Genuine and took the main role in the early science fiction film Algol. In 1921 he played Professor Bulwer (Abraham van Helsing) in the classic silent film Nosferatu directed by F.W. Murnau.
Gottowt made also several films with his brother-in-law Henrik Galeen but, as a Jew, was banned in 1933 from working as a professional actor. After a few years in Denmark he moved to Kraków in Poland. He was murdered in 1942 by an SS officer while in hiding in Wieliczka, disguised as a Roman Catholic priest.
Most Popular John Gottowt Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
16 February 1922
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains.
22 August 1913
Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.
02 September 1920
Since completing a portrait of Genuine, a high priestess, Percy becomes irritable and withdrawn. He loses interest in painting and refuses to see his friends, preferring to spend his time alone with the portrait in his study.
15 March 1998
The horror classic, Nosferatu, remastered with a soundtrack by Type-O Negative and hosted by David Carradine.
08 July 1920
Wilton, a hunchback, who was always scorned and ridiculed by women, returns from Java a rich man after having discovered a diamond mine.
13 November 1924
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper.
03 September 1920
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
16 May 1930
A version of Nosferatu to which sound was added. Some scenes were left out and new ones were added including a different ending.
13 December 1926
Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor.
01 January 1920
France in the first half of the 17th century, at the time of the Duke and all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
01 July 1922
Crime movie about a mysterious underground cult culminating in a prison revolt.
06 April 1919
Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.
01 June 1917
Billionaire's daughter Ethel Vandergolt has rejected so many lovers that they set up a club to get revenge on her.
18 November 1920
The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
06 September 1932
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
20 October 1913
About members of a Commedia dell'arte troupe . Initially cheerful, later tragic events in a triangular relationship consisting of the classic Commedia triumvirate Pierrot, Colombina and Arlecchino.
