John Gottowt
Actor·1881–1942·Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
9 horror credits
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.
Actor9 films
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer
The Living Dead
Beamter des Mechanischen Museums
The Twelfth Hour
Sanitarium Doctor
Waxworks
Owner of the Waxworks
Nosferatu
Professor Bulwer
Algol: Tragedy of Power
Algol
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
Guyard
The Hunchback and the Dancer
James Wilton
The Student of Prague
Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer