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), '' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me'' (1992), '' 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

Television

Video games

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,

References

External links

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Jürgen Prochnow
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1941 births
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
Folkwang University of the Arts alumni
German emigrants to the United States
German male film actors
German male television actors
Male actors from Berlin
Male actors from Los Angeles
Male actors from Munich
Naturalized citizens of the United States
20th-century American male actors
20th-century German male actors
21st-century American male actors
21st-century German male actors