Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈpʁɔxnoː] listenⓘ; born 10 June 1941) is a German-American 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.[1]

Jürgen Prochnow
Prochnow in 2019
Born (1941-06-10) June 10, 1941
Berlin, Germany
Citizenship
    • Germany
    • United States (since 2004)
OccupationActor
Years active1963–present
Spouses
  • Isabel Goslar
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    ​
    (m. 1982; div. 1997)​
  • Birgit Stein
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    (m. 2004; div. 2014)​
  • Verena Wengler
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    (m. 2015)​
PartnerAntonia Reininghaus (1978–1981)
Children3

He is also known for his roles in The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Dune (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The English Patient (1996), Air Force One (1997), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and played 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 in Berlin and brought up in Düsseldorf, as the son of an engineer.[2]

Career

Prochnow 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.[3]

Prochnow and his older brother, Dieter 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.[4]

Personal life

In the early 1980s, Prochnow was in a relationship with Austrian actress Antonia Reininghaus, 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 Birgit Stein, a German actress and screenwriter. Stein died in August 2018 in a motorcycle accident in Kanab, Utah.[5] Since 2015, he has been married to actress Verena Wengler.[6]

Prochnow used to divide his time between Los Angeles and Munich. He received U.S. citizenship in 2004.[7] In 2017, he announced that he had sold his house in California and would be moving to Berlin.[8]

Awards

Filmography
  • Zoff (1972), as Joky
  • The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), as Mann am Stammtisch / Man at the Meeting Table (uncredited)
  • Shot on Command – The Sass Brothers, Once Berlin's Big Crooks (1972, TV), as Franz Sass
  • Tatort: Jagdrevier (1973, TV), as Dieter Brodschella
  • The Tenderness of Wolves (1973), as Hehler
  • Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (1974), as Franz Blum
  • One or the Other of Us (1974), as Bernd Ziegenhals
  • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), as Ludwig Götten
  • Die Konsequenz (1977, The Consequence), as Martin Kurath
  • Operation Ganymed (1977), as Oss
  • Tatort: Das Mädchen von gegenüber (1977, TV), as Klaus Linder
  • As Far as the Eye Sees (1980), as Alexander Späh
  • Das Boot (1981, The Boat), as Commander (“Der Alte”) of U96
  • War and Peace (1982), as Kevin
  • Love Is Forever (1983, TV), as General Siegfried Kaplan
  • The Keep (1983), as Captain Klaus Woermann
  • Dune (1984), as Duke Leto Atreides
  • Forbidden (1984), as Fritz Friedländer
  • The Cop and the Girl (1985), as The Cop
  • Killing Cars (1986), as Ralph Korda
  • Terminus (1987), as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
  • Des Teufels Paradies (Devil's Paradise) (1987), as Escher
  • Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), as Maxwell Dent
  • The Seventh Sign (1988), as David Bannon
  • A Dry White Season (1989), as Captain Stolz
  • The Fourth War (1990), as Col. Valachev
  • Kill Cruise (1990), as The Skipper
  • The Man Inside (1990), as Günter Wallraff
  • The Schoolmaster (1990), as Rozinsky
  • Robin Hood (1991), as Sir Miles Folcanet
  • Hurricane Smith (1992), as Charlie Dowd
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), as Woodsman
  • Interceptor (1992), as Phillips
  • Jewels (1992, TV miniseries), as Joachim von Mannheim
  • Body of Evidence (1993), as Doctor Alan Paley
  • The Fire Next Time (1993, TV miniseries), as Larry Richter
  • The Lucona Affair (1993), as Hans Strasser
  • The Last Border (1993), as Duke
  • Evelyn Hamanns Geschichten aus dem Leben (1993, TV series)
  • Die Wildnis (1993), as Brenner
  • Lie Down with Lions (1994, TV), as Marteau
  • Trigger Fast (1994), as Jack Neumann
  • Guns of Honor (1994, TV), as Jack Neumann
  • Aventures dans le Grand Nord (1994, TV series), as Simon McQuarie
  • In the Mouth of Madness (1994), as Sutter Cane
  • Judge Dredd (1995), as Judge Griffin
  • Tödliche Wahl (1995, TV miniseries), as Alex Bronner
  • Fesseln (1995, TV), as Guenther
  • Sorellina e il principe del sogno (1996, TV miniseries), as Kurdok
  • On Dangerous Ground (1996, TV), as Carl Morgan
  • The English Patient (1996), as Major Muller
  • Privateer 2: The Darkening (1996, video game), as Xavier Shondi
  • The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996, TV series), as Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • The Cry of Love (1997, TV), as Holger
  • DNA (1997), as Dr. Carl Wessinger
  • Air Force One (1997), as General Ivan Radek
  • The Replacement Killers (1998), as Michael Kogan
  • The Human Bomb (1998, TV), as Gerhardt Dach
  • China Dream (1998), as Paul Konen
  • Schuldig (1998)
  • The Fall (1999), as József Kovács
  • Wing Commander (1999), as Cdr. Paul Gerald
  • Esther (1999, TV), as Haman
  • The Blond Baboon (1999, TV), as Jan Vleuten
  • Heaven's Fire (1999, TV), as Quentin Darby
  • The Millennium Disaster: Computer Crash 2000 (1999, TV), as Hans Hagemann
  • Youri (1999)
  • Gunblast Vodka (2000), as Sacha Roublev
  • Poison (2000, TV), as Carl Krieger
  • Padre Pio: Miracle Man (2000, TV), as Visitatore / The Inquisitor
  • The Last Stop (2000), as Fritz
  • Final Ascent (2000, TV), as Paul
  • Jack the Dog (2001), as Klaus
  • The Elite (2001), as Avi
  • Last Run (2001), as Andrus Bukarin
  • Ripper (2001), as Detective Kelso
  • Dark Asylum (2001), as Dr. Fallon
  • Heart of America (2002), as Harold Lewis
  • Davon stirbt man nicht (2002, TV), as Everett Burns
  • Checkpoint (2002)
  • House of the Dead (2003), as Capitain Victor Kirk
  • The Poet (2003), as Vashon
  • Baltic Storm (2003), as Erik Westermark
  • Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2004, TV), as Baron de Hengen
  • See Arnold Run (2005, TV), as Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Chain Reaction (2006)
  • The Celestine Prophecy (2006), as Jensen
  • The Da Vinci Code (2006), as Andre Vernet
  • Beerfest (2006), as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
  • Schroeder's Wonderful World (2006), as John Gregory
  • Primeval (2007), as Jacob Krieg
  • Nanking (2007), as John Rabe
  • Ohne einander (2007, TV), as Ernest
  • Ein Fall für zwei (2007, TV series), as KHK Max Gerber
  • Dark Sector (2008, video game), as Yargo Mensik (voice)
  • Hellboy: The Science of Evil (2008, video game), as Herman von Klempt (voice)
  • La Conjura de El Escorial (2008), as Espinosa
  • Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008), as The Mage
  • Oko (2009), as Mr. Hooked
  • 24 (2010, TV series), as Sergei Bazhaev
  • Spear of Destiny (2010, TV), as Baron von Hahn
  • Tatort: Schlafende Hunde (2010, TV), as Hans Rodenburg
  • Sinners & Saints (2010), as Mr. Rhykin
  • Amigo (2010, TV), as Fredo Kovacs
  • NCIS: Los Angeles (2010–2014, TV series), as Mattias Draeger
  • Nachtschicht (2010, TV series), as Friedrich Otto Winterstein
  • Die Schuld der Erben (2012), as Kurt Hanson
  • Luck (2012, TV series), as Racetrack Owner
  • Ein schmaler Grat (2013), as Uwe Wolfmann
  • Company of Heroes (2013), as Luca Gruenewald
  • Ohne Gnade! (2013), as Helmutchen
  • Die Kinder meiner Tochter (2013), as Ernst Blessing
  • Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014), as Woodsman
  • Hitman: Agent 47 (2015), as Tobias
  • Remember (2015), as Rudy Kurlander No. 4
  • The Dark Side of the Moon (2015), as Pius Ott
  • Interference (2016), as Herr Ryser
  • Tatort: Borowski und das verlorene Mädchen (2016, TV), as Kesting
  • Kundschafter des Friedens (2017), as Kern
  • Leanders letzte Reise (2017), as Eduard Leander
  • Damascus Cover (2017), as Franz Ludin
  • Dengler (2017), as Dr. Schweikert
  • Lore (2018, TV series), as Andreas Gruber
  • A Hidden Life (2019), as Major Schlegel (uncredited)

Audiobooks (excerpt)
  • 2008: Frank Herbert: Dune: Der Wüstenplanet (together with Simon Jäger and Marianne Rosenberg), publisher: Lübbe Audio, ISBN 978-3-7857-3584-8
  • 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, ISBN 978-3785754979

References
  1. "German Hollywood star Jürgen Prochnow turns 80". Deutsche Welle.
  2. Juergen Prochnow Biography (1941-). Filmreference.com. Retrieved on 18 June 2017.
  3. "Deutsche Synchronkartei (german)". synchrondatei.de. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  4. "Berlinale: 1996 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  5. "Jürgen Prochnow trauert um seine Ex-Frau". 15 August 2018.
  6. ""Das Boot"-Schauspieler heiratet zum dritten Mal".
  7. "Jürgen Prochnow: Making It as a German Actor in Hollywood".
  8. Jürgen Prochnow über Ehrgeiz - Kultur - Süddeutsche.de. Sueddeutsche.de (20 January 2017). Retrieved on 18 June 2017.
  9. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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