Jürgen Prochnow

Known for: Acting
Born: June 10, 1941, Berlin, Germany
Movies: 122

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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Best-Known Movies

6.7

The Da Vinci Code

2006

6.2

Dune

1984

6.5

Air Force One

1997

5.9

Hitman: Agent 47

2015

6.5

Beverly Hills Cop II

1987

5.9

Judge Dredd

1995

8.1

Das Boot

1981

7.1

The English Patient

1996

7.4

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

7.2

In the Mouth of Madness

1995

Filmography

2025	A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'	Self
2023	The Last Rifleman	Friedrich Mueller
2023	U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'	Self (archive footage)
2021	The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune	Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021	Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story	Self - Das Boot Actor
2020	The old Man and the Pain in the Neck	Wilhelm Schürmann
2020	A Handful of Water	Konrad
2019	A Hidden Life	Major Schlegel
2019	Real Men	Himself - Actor
2018	The Guardian Angel	Albert Klosser
2017	Damascus Cover	Franz Ludin
2017	The Final Journey	Eduard
2017	Old Agent Men	Kern
2016	Half Brothers	Herr Dryser
2016	The Dark Side of the Moon	Pius Ott
2015	Remember	Rudy Kurlander #4
2015	Hitman: Agent 47	Tobias
2014	Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau	Self (archive footage)
2014	Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces	Woodsman
2013	Die Kinder meiner Tochter	Ernst Blessing
2013	Ohne Gnade	Helmutchen
2013	Company of Heroes	Luca Gruenewald
2013	Ein schmaler Grat	Uwe Wolfmann
2012	Die Schuld der Erben	Kurt Hanson
2010	Amigo - Dead on Arrival	Fredo Kovacs
2010	Sinners and Saints	Mr. Rhykin
2010	Spear of Destiny	Baron Von Haan
2009	Oko ve zdi
2008	Merlin and the War of the Dragons	The Mage
2008	La conjura de El Escorial	Espinosa
2007	Schroeder's Wonderful World	John Gregory
2007	Ohne einander	Ernest
2007	Nanking	John Rabe
2007	Primeval	Jacob Krieg
2006	Beerfest	Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
2006	The Celestine Prophecy	Jensen
2006	The Da Vinci Code	André Vernet
2006	Chain Reaction	Police Man
2005	Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005)	Self
2005	See Arnold Run	Arnold Schwarzenegger
2005	Julie, chevalier de Maupin	Le baron Hengen
2003	The Poet	Vashon
2003	Baltic Storm	Erik Westermark
2003	House of the Dead	Kirk
2003	Heart of America	Harold Lewis
2002	Davon stirbt man nicht	Everett Burns
2001	Dark Asylum	Dr. Fallon
2001	Ripper: Letter from Hell	Detective Kelso
2001	Gunblast Vodka	Sacha Roublev
2001	Last Run	Andrus Bukarin
2001	The Elite	Avi
2001	Jack the Dog	Klaus
2000	Final Ascent	Paul
2000	The Last Stop	Fritz
2000	Poison	Carl Krieger
1999	The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000	Hans Hagemann
1999	Heaven's Fire	Quentin Darby
1999	Der blonde Affe	Jan Vleuten
1999	Esther	Haman
1999	Wing Commander	Cdr. Paul Gerald
1999	The Fall	József Kovács
1998	From China with Love	Paul Konen
1998	Human Bomb	Gerhardt Dach
1998	The Replacement Killers	Michael Kogan
1997	Air Force One	Alexander Radek
1997	DNA	Dr. Carl Wessinger
1997	The Cry of Love	Holger
1996	The English Patient	Major Muller
1996	On Dangerous Ground	Carl Morgan
1995	Fesseln	Günther
1995	Tödliche Wahl	Alex Bronner
1995	Judge Dredd	Judge Griffin
1995	Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'	Himself
1995	In the Mouth of Madness	Sutter Cane
1994	The Other Side of the Law	Simon McQuarie
1994	Guns of Honor	Jack Neumann
1994	Trigger Fast	Jack Neumann
1994	Lie Down with Lions	Marteau
1993	Die Wildnis	Brenner
1993	The Last Border	Duke
1993	Der Fall Lucona	Jorunalist Strasser
1993	Body of Evidence	Dr. Alan Paley
1992	Interceptor	Phillips
1992	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	Woodsman
1992	Hurricane Smith	Charlie Dowd
1991	Robin Hood	Sir Miles Folcanet
1990	The Man Inside	Günter Wallraff
1990	The Schoolmaster	Rozinsky
1990	Kill Cruise	The Skipper
1990	The Fourth War	Col. Valachev
1989	A Dry White Season	Captain Stolz
1988	The Seventh Sign	David Bannon
1987	Beverly Hills Cop II	Maxwell Dent
1987	Devil's Paradise	Escher
1987	Terminus	Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
1986	Killing Cars	Ralph Korda
1985	Murder: By Reason of Insanity	Adam Berwid
1985	The Cop & the Girl	Der Bulle
1985	Blitz	Ralph Korda
1984	Dune	Duke Leto Atreides
1984	Forbidden	Fritz Friedländer
1983	The Keep	Captain Klaus Woermann
1983	Love is Forever	General Siegfried Kaplan
1983	Destination Dune	Self
1982	War and Peace	Kevin
1981	Das Boot: Behind The Scenes	Self
1981	Das Boot	Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
1980	So weit das Auge reicht	Alexander Späh
1979	Kotte	Günther Kotte
1977	Operation Ganymed	Oss
1977	The Consequence	Martin Kurath
1976	Hans in Luck	Hans Schmidtke
1976	Shirin's Wedding	Aida
1975	The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum	Ludwig Götten
1974	The Brutalization of Franz Blum	Franz Blum
1974	One or the Other of Us	Bernd Ziegenhals
1973	Tenderness of the Wolves	Hehler
1972	Auf Befehl erschossen	Franz Sass
1972	Knast	Roloff
1972	The Merchant of Four Seasons	Man at the Meeting Table
1972	Zoff	Joky
1970	Unternehmer	Arnold

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