1881-06-15 ( 143 years old ) in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
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.
Movies
Nosferatu: The First Vampire
1998-03-15
The Living Dead
1932-09-06
The Twelfth Hour
1930-05-16
The Flight in the Night
1926-12-13
Waxworks
1924-11-13
Der schwarze Stern
1922-07-01
Nosferatu
1922-02-16
Brennendes Land
1921-03-10
The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920-11-18
Algol: Tragedy of Power
1920-09-03
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
1920-09-02
The Hunchback and the Dancer
1920-07-08
Der rote Henker
1920-01-01
Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend
1919-04-06
Morphium
1919-01-01
Die Prinzessin von Neutralien
1917-06-01
Das schwarze Los
1913-10-20
The Student of Prague
1913-08-22
Powered by Powerxsoft Ltd using the TMDB API