John Gottowt
Acting
19
Acting Credits
1
Directed
Biography
John Gottowt (born Isidor Gesang; 15 June 1881 – 29 August 1942) was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies. Gottowt was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. After his education in Vienna, he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1905, working for Max Reinhardt as an actor and director. Gottowt was mainly active in different theatres in Berlin as a character actor and director. His first silent film a...
Known For
Filmography
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
2025
as Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer
The Living Dead
1932
as Beamter des Mechanischen Museums
The Twelfth Hour
1930
as Sanitarium Doctor (Archive footage)
The Flight in the Night
1926
as Bediensteter
Waxworks
1924
as Owner of the Waxworks
Nosferatu
1922
as Professor Bulwer
Der schwarze Stern
1922
Brennendes Land
1921
as Wladislaus
Parisian Women
1921
as Aristide
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
1920
as Guyard
The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920
as Buckliger Narr
Algol: Tragedy of Power
1920
as Algol
Der rote Henker
1920
as L'Angely
The Hunchback and the Dancer
1920
as James Wilton
Morphium
1919
Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend
1919
Die Prinzessin von Neutralien
1917
as The billionaire Vandergold
The Student of Prague
1913
as Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer
Das schwarze Los
1913
as Brighella