John Gottowt
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 15, 1881, Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
- Died
- August 29, 1942
- Movies
- 20
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2025 | Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror | Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer |
| 1932 | The Living Dead | Beamter des Mechanischen Museums |
| 1930 | The Twelfth Hour | Sanitarium Doctor (Archive footage) |
| 1926 | The Flight in the Night | Bediensteter |
| 1924 | Waxworks | Owner of the Waxworks |
| 1922 | The Black Star | |
| 1922 | Nosferatu | Professor Bulwer |
| 1921 | Parisian Women | Aristide |
| 1921 | Brennendes Land | Wladislaus |
| 1920 | The Night of Queen Isabeau | Buckliger Narr |
| 1920 | Algol: Tragedy of Power | Algol |
| 1920 | Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire | Guyard |
| 1920 | The Hunchback and the Dancer | James Wilton |
| 1920 | Der rote Henker | L'Angely |
| 1919 | Peer Gynt - Part 1: Peer Gynt’s Youth | |
| 1919 | Morphium | |
| 1917 | Die Prinzessin von Neutralien | The billionaire Vandergold |
| 1913 | Das schwarze Los | Brighella |
| 1913 | The Student of Prague | Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1913 | Das schwarze Los | Director |
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