Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow (; born 10 June 1941) is a German actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.

He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), A Dry White Season (1989), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and for playing Sergei Bazhaev on the eighth season of 24 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner.

Early life Prochnow was born on 10 June 1941 in Berlin in Germany. He was brought up in Düsseldorf. His father was an engineer.

Career Prochnow portrayed the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot. He starred in the World War II drama Forbidden (1985), which earned a German Film Award nomination for Outstanding Feature Film. He had a significant supporting role in The Seventh Sign (1988).

Prochnow portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in See Arnold Run, a 2005 film about the actor's political career in California. He played Commander Paul Gerald in Wing Commander (1999). He was the main antagonist in the Broken Lizard film, Beerfest (2006).

Prochnow dubbed Sylvester Stallone's voice in the German version of Rocky (1976) and Rocky II (1979), as well as F.I.S.T and Paradise Alley (both 1978). He later acted alongside Stallone in the 1995 movie Judge Dredd. After the retirement of Stallone's long-time voice actor Thomas Danneberg, Prochnow assumed this job in 2018 with Creed II. He usually also dubs his own roles in English-language productions.

Prochnow and his older brother, appeared in The Man Inside (1990), in which Jürgen played the leading role and Dieter a supporting role.

In 1996, he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.

Personal life In the early 1980s, Prochnow was in a relationship with Austrian actress , who fatally poisoned their 7-year-old daughter, Johanna, in 1987. In 1982, he married actor Jürgen Goslar's daughter, Isabel Goslar, with whom he has two children: a daughter, Mona, and a son, Roman. The couple divorced in 1997. From 2004 until the divorce in 2014, he was married to , a German actress and screenwriter. Stein died in August 2018 in a motorcycle accident in Kanab, Utah. Since 2015, he has been married to actress Verena Wengler.

Prochnow used to divide his time between Los Angeles and Munich. He received U.S. citizenship in 2004. In 2017, he announced that he had sold his house in Brentwood, Los Angeles, and would be moving to Berlin.

Awards 1985 Bavarian Film Awards: Best Actor

Filmography

Film Year Title Role 1972 Zoff Joky 1972 The Merchant of Four Seasons Mann am Stammtisch / Man at the Meeting Table (uncredited) 1973 The Tenderness of Wolves Hehler 1974 Franz Blum 1974 One or the Other of Us Bernd Ziegenhals 1975 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Ludwig Götten 1977 Die Konsequenz (The Consequence) Martin Kurath 1977 (1977) Oss 1980 Alexander Späh 1981 Das Boot (“The Boat”) Commander (“Der Alte”) of U96 1982 War and Peace Kevin 1983 The Keep Captain Klaus Woermann 1984 Dune Duke Leto Atreides 1984 Forbidden Fritz Friedländer 1985 The Cop 1986 Ralph Korda 1987 Terminus Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver 1987 (Devil's Paradise) Escher 1987 Beverly Hills Cop II Maxwell Dent 1988 The Seventh Sign David Bannon 1989 A Dry White Season Captain Stolz 1990 The Fourth War Col. Valachev 1990 Kill Cruise The Skipper 1990 The Man Inside Günter Wallraff 1990 The Schoolmaster Rozinsky 1991 Robin Hood Sir Miles Folcanet 1992 Hurricane Smith Charlie Dowd 1992 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Woodsman 1992 Interceptor Phillips 1993 Body of Evidence Doctor Alan Paley 1993 Hans Strasser 1993 The Last Border Duke 1993 Die Wildnis Brenner 1994 Trigger Fast Jack Neumann 1994 In the Mouth of Madness Sutter Cane 1995 Judge Dredd Judge Griffin 1996 The English Patient Major Muller 1996 DNA Dr. Carl Wessinger 1997 Air Force One General Ivan Radek 1998 The Replacement Killers Michael Kogan 1998 China Dream Paul Konen 1998 Schuldig 1999 The Fall József Kovács 1999 Wing Commander Cdr. Paul Gerald 1999 Youri 2000 Sacha Roublev 2000 The Last Stop Fritz 2001 Jack the Dog Klaus 2001 The Elite Avi 2001 Last Run Andrus Bukarin 2001 Ripper Detective Kelso 2001 Dark Asylum Dr. Fallon 2002 Heart of America Harold Lewis 2002 Checkpoint 2003 House of the Dead Capitain Victor Kirk 2003 Vashon 2003 Baltic Storm Erik Westermark 2006 2006 The Celestine Prophecy Jensen 2006 The Da Vinci Code Andre Vernet 2006 Beerfest Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen 2006 John Gregory 2007 Primeval Jacob Krieg 2007 Nanking John Rabe 2008 La Conjura de El Escorial Espinosa 2008 Merlin and the War of the Dragons The Mage 2009 Oko (2009), Mr. Hooked 2010 Sinners & Saints Mr. Rhykin 2012 Die Schuld der Erben Kurt Hanson 2013 Ein schmaler Grat Uwe Wolfmann 2013 Company of Heroes Luca Gruenewald 2013 Ohne Gnade! Helmutchen 2013 Die Kinder meiner Tochter Ernst Blessing 2014 Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces Woodsman 2015 Hitman: Agent 47 Tobias 2015 Remember Rudy Kurlander No. 4 2015 Pius Ott 2016 Interference Herr Ryser 2017 Kern 2017 Leanders letzte Reise Eduard Leander 2017 Damascus Cover Franz Ludin 2017 Dr. Schweikert 2019 A Hidden Life Major Schlegel (uncredited) 2023 The Last Rifleman 12th SS Veteran

Television Year Title Role 1972 Shot on Command – The Sass Brothers, Once Berlin's Big Crooks Franz Sass 1973 Tatort: Dieter Brodschella 1976 Hans Schmidtke 1977 Tatort: Das Mädchen von gegenüber Klaus Linder 1983 Love Is Forever General Siegfried Kaplan 1992 Jewels Joachim von Mannheim 1993 The Fire Next Time Larry Richter 1993 1994 Lie Down with Lions Marteau 1994 Guns of Honor Jack Neumann 1994 Aventures dans le Grand Nord Simon McQuarie 1995 Alex Bronner 1995 Fesseln Guenther 1996 Kurdok 1996 On Dangerous Ground Carl Morgan 1996 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century Kaiser Wilhelm II 1997 Holger 1998 The Human Bomb Gerhardt Dach 1999 Esther Haman 1999 The Blond Baboon Jan Vleuten 1999 Heaven's Fire Quentin Darby 2000 Carl Krieger 2000 Padre Pio: Miracle Man Visitatore / The Inquisitor 2000 Final Ascent Paul 2002 Davon stirbt man nicht Everett Burns 2004 Julie, chevalier de Maupin Baron de Hengen 2005 See Arnold Run Arnold Schwarzenegger 2007 Ohne einander Ernest 2007 Ein Fall für zwei KHK Max Gerber 2010 24 (2010) Sergei Bazhaev 2010 Baron von Hahn 2010 Tatort: Hans Rodenburg 2010 Fredo Kovacs 2010-2014 NCIS: Los Angeles Mattias Draeger 2010 Friedrich Otto Winterstein 2012 Luck Racetrack Owner 2016 Tatort: Kesting 2017 Dr. Schweikert 2018 Lore Andreas Gruber

Video games Year Title Role 1996 Privateer 2: The Darkening (video game) Xavier Shondi 2008 Dark Sector (video game) Yargo Mensik (voice) 2008 Hellboy: The Science of Evil (video game) Herman von Klempt (voice)

Audiobooks (excerpt) 2008: Frank Herbert: Dune: Der Wüstenplanet (together with Simon Jäger and Marianne Rosenberg), publisher: Lübbe Audio, 2013: Andreas Eschbach: Quantenmüll, publisher: Lübbe Audio (Audible) 2017: Andreas Eschbach: Eine unberührte Welt (together with Simon Jäger, Yara Blümel and Nicole Engeln), publisher: Lübbe Audio,