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Jürgen Prochnow

Highest Rated: 98% Das Boot (1981)

Lowest Rated: 3% House of the Dead (2003)

Birthday: Jun 10, 1941

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany

German-born actor Jurgen Prochnow first achieved notice in his homeland for his work in "Die Verrohung des Franz Blum/The Brutalization of Franz Blum" (1974) and in "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1975), co-directed by Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe Von Trotta. But it was as the captain of the ill-fated submarine in Wolfgang Petersen's gripping WWII drama "Das Boot" (1981) that his career really took flight, earning him international recognition. Since his US film debut in "Comeback" (1982), Prochnow has tackled a steady diet of supporting characters, often humorless men of German extraction such as his sinister Captain Stolz in "A Dry White Season (1989) and the brutal Nazi interrogator in Anthony Minghella's Oscar-winning "The English Patient" (1996).

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Highest rated movies

98% 96% Das Boot
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96% 88% Nanking
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86% 83% The English Patient
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83% 84% The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
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82% 75% A Dry White Season
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68% 79% Remember
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64% 78% Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
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64% 29% The Fourth War
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Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow Jürgen Prochnow DAS BOOT, from top, Herbert Gronemeyer, Jurgen Prochnow, 1981, ©Columbia Pictures DAS BOOT, Jurgen Prochnow, 1981, ©Columbia Pictures IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, Jurgen Prochnow, 1995, (c)New Line Cinema THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (aka DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM ODER: WIE GEWALT ENTSTEHEN UND WOHIN SIE FUHREN KANN), Jurgen Prochnow, Angela Winkler, 1975 THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM, (aka DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM ODER: WIE GEWALT ENTSTEHEN UND WOHIN SIE FUHREN KANN), from left: Jurgen Prochnow, Angela Winkler, 1975 THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM, (aka DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM ODER: WIE GEWALT ENTSTEHEN UND WOHIN SIE FUHREN KANN), from left: Jurgen Prochnow, Angela Winkler, 1975 DAS BOOT, Jurgen Prochnow, 1981, ©Columbia Pictures THE SEVENTH SIGN, Jurgen Prochnow, 1988, (c)TriStar Pictures View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
69% 90% The Last Rifleman Friedrich Mueller (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Handful of Water Konrad Hausnick (Character) - 2019
14% 59% Damascus Cover Franz Ludin (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Final Journey Eduard Leander (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Half Brothers Herr Ryser (Character) $1.1K 2016
68% 79% Remember Rudy Kurlander No. 4 (Character) $1.2M 2015
8% 40% Hitman: Agent 47 Tobias (Character) $22.4M 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dark Side of the Moon Pius Ott (Character) - 2015
No Score Yet 33% Company of Heroes Luca Gruenewald (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 49% Sinners and Saints Mr. Rhykin (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 20% Merlin and the War of the Dragons The Mage (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet La conjura de El Escorial Espinosa (Character) - 2008
96% 88% Nanking John Rabe (Character) $160.1K 2007
21% 32% Primeval Jacob Krieg (Character) $10.6M 2007
No Score Yet 25% Chain Reaction Police Officer (Character) - 2006
5% 54% The Celestine Prophecy Jensen (Character) $1.0M 2006
41% 75% Beerfest Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen (Character) $19.2M 2006
25% 57% The Da Vinci Code Andre Vernet (Character) $217.5M 2006
No Score Yet 25% See Arnold Run Arnold Schwarzenegger (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 18% Baltic Storm Erik Westermark (Character) - 2003
3% 11% House of the Dead Kirk (Character) $10.2M 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Poet Vashon (Character) - 2003
20% 40% Heart of America Harold Lewis (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 40% Ripper: Letter From Hell Detective Kelso (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jack the Dog Klaus (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 13% Last Run Andrus Bukarin (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 17% Dark Asylum Dr. Fallon (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Padre Pio Visitatore/The Inquisitor (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunblast Vodka Roublev (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 0% The Elite Avi (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 43% The Last Stop Fritz (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Final Ascent Paul (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Poison Carl Krieger (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fall József Kovács (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 80% Esther Haman (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heaven's Fire Quentin Darby (Character) - 1999
10% 26% Wing Commander Commander Paul Gerald (Character) $11.6M 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Blonde Baboon Jan Vleuten (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Error 2000 Hans Hagermann (Character) - 1999
37% 47% The Replacement Killers Michael Kogan (Character) $19.0M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chinadream Paul Konen (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fall Unknown (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 15% DNA Dr. Carl Wessinger (Character) - 1997
79% 66% Air Force One General Ivan Radek (Character) $172.7M 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Human Bomb Gerhardt Dach (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Der Schrei der Liebe Holger (Character) - 1997
86% 83% The English Patient Major Muller (Character) $78.7M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet On Dangerous Ground Carl Morgan (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alisea and the Dream Prince Kurdok (Character) - 1996
22% 31% Judge Dredd Judge Griffin (Character) $34.7M 1995
59% 74% In the Mouth of Madness Sutter Cane (Character) $8.9M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Till Death Do Us Part Guenther (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Other Side of the Law Simon McQuarie (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lie Down With Lions Marteau (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trigger Fast Jack Neumann (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 25% The Fire Next Time Larry Richter (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 12% The Last Border Duke (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dead on Delivery Charlie Dowd (Character) - 1992
64% 78% Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Woodsman (Character) $4.2M 1992
No Score Yet 16% Interceptor Phillips (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 87% Jewels Joachim von Mannheim (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 45% Robin Hood Sir Miles Folc (Character) - 1991
64% 29% The Fourth War Col. Valachev (Character) $1.2M 1990
No Score Yet 14% Kill Cruise The Skipper (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 27% Hurricane Smith Charlie Dowd (Character) - 1990
13% No Score Yet The Man Inside Gunter Wallraff (Character) $30.5K 1990
82% 75% A Dry White Season Captain Stolz (Character) $3.3M 1989
15% 49% The Seventh Sign David Bannon (Character) $16.5M 1988
49% 58% Beverly Hills Cop II Maxwell Dent (Character) $151.7M 1987
No Score Yet 33% Terminus Sir/Doctor/Yellow Truck's Driver (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Devil's Paradise Escher (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 25% Killing Cars Ralph Korda (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder: By Reason of Insanity Adam Berwid (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Forbidden Fritz Friedländer (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Sweet Victim Adam Berwid (Character) - 1985
36% 65% Dune Duke Leto Atreides (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Is Forever General Siegfried Kaplan (Character) - 1983
39% 43% The Keep Captain Klaus Woermann (Character) - 1983
98% 96% Das Boot Der Alte/Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet As Far as the Eye Sees Alexander Späh (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 53% The Consequence Martin Kurath (Character) - 1977
83% 84% The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Ludwig Götten (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet One or the Other Bernd Ziegenhals (Character) - 1974

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69% 45% Lore Andreas Gruber (Character) 2018
No Score Yet 63% NCIS: Los Angeles Unknown (Guest Star) 2010 2014
87% 87% 24 Sergei Bazhaev (Guest Star) 2010