From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Walter Gotell (15 March 1926 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the James Bond film series. Gotell was born in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn (1943). He began to have more established roles by the early fifties, starring in The African Queen (1951), Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), 55 Days At Peking (1963), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), Lord Jim (1965), Black Sunday (1977), The Boys From Brazil (1978), and Cuba (1979). Gotell won the role of KGB General Anatol Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me for being a look-alike of the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Pavlovitch Beria. His first role in the James Bond films came in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love. Starting in the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the James Bond series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977. The character returned in Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987). As the Cold War developed, the role of leader of the KGB was seen to change attitudes to the West - from direct competitor to collaborator. His final appearance, as the Cold War began to become less imminent, sees him transferred to a different, more diplomatic role. Gotell is one of a few actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the film series (others being Joe Don Baker, Charles Gray and Richard Kiel). Throughout his career, Gotell also made numerous guest appearances in a wide array of television series. He played Chief Constable Cullen in Softly, Softly: Taskforce between 1969 and 1975. He guested in many series including Danger Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, The X-Files, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Cagney and Lacey, The Saint, and many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Gotell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2022Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror — General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2018Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre — Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2012Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor — Uncle John (archive footage)
• 2003Puppet Master: The Legacy — General Mueller (archive footage)
• 1997Prince Valiant — Erik the Old
• The X-Files — Victor Klemper
• 1992Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge — General Mueller
• 1989She Knows Too Much — Foreigner
• Tales from the Crypt — Mr. Hertz
• Freddy's Nightmares — Kemmerling
• 1988Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers — Uncle John
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Kurt Mandl
• 1987The Living Daylights — General Anatol Gogol
• 1986Henry's Shadow — Efraim Grüner
• Henry's Shadow — Efraim Grüner
• 1986Liberty — Rabbi Goteyel
• 1985A View to a Kill — General Gogol
• 1985Basic Training — Nabokov
• 1985KGB: The Secret War — Nicholai
• 1985Lace 2 — General Zedd
• MacGyver — Starkoss, General Barenov
• Spenser: For Hire
• Airwolf — Oberst Helmut Krüger / Hans Daubert
• 1984Memed My Hawk — Sgt. Asim
• Miami Vice — Max Klizer
• 1983Kalabaliken i Bender — Storvesiren
• Masquerade — Steiner
• 1983Octopussy — Gogol
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King
• The A-Team — Ramon DeJarro
• 1983The Scarlet and the Black — Gen. Max Helm
• Cagney & Lacey — J.F. Blackwell
• Hotel — Douglas Sloane
• Knight Rider — Simon Carascas
• Skulden — Misjakov
• 1981For Your Eyes Only — General Anatol Gogol
• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years — Lord Swinton, Lord Swinton (uncredited)
• 1980Cry of the Innocent — Jack Brewster
• 1980Flight Level 450 — Anchell
• 1979Cuba — Don Jose Pulido
• 1979Moonraker — General Gogol
• 1979The London Connection — Simmons
• 1978The Boys from Brazil — Mundt
• 1978The Stud — Ben Khaled
• The Word — Hennig
• 1977Black Sunday — Colonel Riat
• 1977March or Die — Col. Lamont
• 1977The Assignment — Frankenheimer
• The Professionals — Sam Baker
• 1977The Spy Who Loved Me — General Anatol Gogol
• The Zoo Gang — Boucher
• 1972Endless Night — Constantine
• 1972Our Miss Fred — Heinrich Schmidt (uncredited)
• Softly Softly: Task Force — Chief Constable Cullen, Chief Constable Arthur Cullen
• 1969The File of the Golden Goose — George Leeds
• The Main Chance — Gilbert Fletcher, Raymond Berry
• 1968Attack on the Iron Coast — Van Horst
• 1968Cry Wolf — Ronan
• The Champions — Captain Jost
• 1965Lord Jim — Captain of Patna
• 1965The Spy Who Came In from the Cold — Holten (uncredited)
• The Troubleshooters — Ian Webster
• Detective — Hamilton Tromp
• 1964The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog — Benton
• 196355 Days at Peking — Capt. Hoffman
• 1963From Russia with Love — Morzeny
• 1963Sword of Lancelot — Sir Cedric
• The Human Jungle — Swenson
• Richard the Lionheart — Prince Otto
• Studio 4 — Gestapo Commissar Kehr
• The Andromeda Breakthrough — Neilson, Professor Neilson
• 1962The Damned — Major Holland
• 1962The Devil's Agent — Dr. Ritter (uncredited)
• 1962The Longest Day — German Soldier (uncredited)
• 1962The Road to Hong Kong — Dr. Zorbb
• The Saint — Hans Lasser
• Z-Cars
• Stryker of the Yard
• 1961The Devil's Daffodil — Oberinspektor Whiteside
• 1961The Guns of Navarone — Muesel
• Armchair Mystery Theatre — The Man
• 1960Circle of Deception — Phoney Ballard
• 1960Circus of Horrors — Baron Von Gruber
• Danger Man — Colonel Perar, Receptionist
• 1960Sink the Bismarck! — Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
• 1960The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll — Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
• Interpol Calling — Zeist, Fischer
• No Hiding Place
• 1959Shake Hands with the Devil — 'Black & Tans' Sergeant
• 1959The Bandit Of Zhobe — Azhad Khan
• The Third Man — Rasmussen
• 1959The Treasure of San Teresa — Hamburg inspector
• Behind Closed Doors
• 1958I Was Monty's Double — German Colonel
• 1958Ice Cold in Alex — 1st German Officer
• The Adventures of William Tell — Officer
• 1958The Man Inside — Profuno
• Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! — Gestapo officer
• 19561984 — Guard (uncredited)
• Armchair Theatre — First Policeman
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Le Drue
• 1956The Man Who Knew Too Much — Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
• 1955Above Us the Waves — German Officer on Tirpitz
• Dixon of Dock Green — Gooch
• 1955The Dark Avenger — French Castle Guard (uncredited)
• 1955The Mysterious Bullet — Police Constable (uncredited)
• 1954Duel in the Jungle — Jim
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Simmons
• 1953Albert R.N. — Feldwebel
• 1953Desperate Moment — Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
• 1953The Red Beret — German Sentry
• 1952The African Queen — Second Officer
• 1951Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared — Luzatto
• 1950Cairo Road — Prison Officer
• 1950Lilli Marlene — Director of Propaganda
• Sunday Night Theatre — Mir Jaffar
• 1950The Wooden Horse — François - The Follower
• 1948No Orchids for Miss Blandish — uncredited
• 1943Tomorrow We Live — Hans
• 1943We Dive at Dawn — Luftwaffe Captain
• 1942Secret Mission — Lieutenant Langfeld
• 1942The Goose Steps Out — SS Guard

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2000Inside 'From Russia with Love' — Self
• 1991Videozone: The Making of "Puppet Master III" — Himself
• 1988Gregory Peck: His Own Man — Self (archive footage)