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.[1]
^Schönker, Heinrich (2008). Ich war acht und wollte leben (in German). Düsseldorf: Patmos Verlag GmbH + Co.K. pp. 96–102. ISBN 978-3-491-35023-6.
JohnGottowt (born Isidor Gesang; 15 June 1881 – 29 August 1942) was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies...
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by Henrik Galeen and starring Lupu Pick, JohnGottowt, and Edith Posca. Lupu Pick as Amtsmann JohnGottowt as Lucas Edith Posca as Susanne Lina Lossen...
"Frankenstein – Cast and Crew". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011. Welle, John P. (2004). "Early Cinima, Dante's Inferno of 1911, and the Origins of Italian...
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as Die Schwarze Karl Forest as Der Alte Otto Gebühr as Leonid Fenton JohnGottowt as Black Suzanne Marwille as Marquise Luigi Serventi as Marquis Redonc...
and Paul Wegener, written by Hanns Heinz Ewers, starring Paul Wegener, JohnGottowt, Grete Berger and Lyda Salmonova; adapting the 1839 Edgar Allan Poe story...
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by luring the hunchback into kissing her himself. Sascha Gura as Gina JohnGottowt as James Wilton Paul Biensfeldt as Smith Henri Peters-Arnolds as Percy...
Steinrück as General Braticzek Maximiliane Ackers as Marie, Karls Braut JohnGottowt as Wladislaus Lyda Salmonova as Mascha Geo Bergal as Heinrich Albert...
Marcellier Lydia Potechina as Marcelliers Frau Ivan Bulatov Lia Eibenschütz JohnGottowt as Aristide Wilhelm Diegelmann Heinrich Peer Ernst Hofmann as Georges...
Gottlieb Fichte Max Gülstorff as first editor of the Vossische Zeitung JohnGottowt as second editor of the Vossische Zeitung Ernst Gronau as third editor...
Matrone Enrica Fantis as Maria Carl Geppert as Bediensteter JohnGottowt as Bediensteter Georg John as Bediensteter Hermann Vallentin as Irrenarzt, Prof. Genoni...
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