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Jürgen Prochnow

Born 1941-06-10
📍 Berlin, Germany

Jürgen Prochnow (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.

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.

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Filmography 133

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
as Self
2025
The Last Rifleman
as Friedrich Mueller
2023
U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
as Self - Das Boot Actor
2021
The old Man and the Pain in the Neck
as Wilhelm Schürmann
2020
A Handful of Water
as Konrad
2020
A Hidden Life
as Major Schlegel
2019
Real Men
as Himself - Actor
2019
Damascus Cover
as Franz Ludin
2017
Lore
as Andreas Gruber
2017
The Final Journey
as Eduard
2017
Old Agent Men
as Kern
2017
Half Brothers
as Herr Dryser
2016
The Dark Side of the Moon
as Pius Ott
2016
Remember
as Rudy Kurlander #4
2015
Hitman: Agent 47
as Tobias
2015
Wer weiß denn sowas?
as Self
2015
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
as Woodsman
2014
Die Kinder meiner Tochter
as Ernst Blessing
2013
Ohne Gnade
as Helmutchen
2013
Company of Heroes
as Luca Gruenewald
2013
Ein schmaler Grat
as Uwe Wolfmann
2013
Amigo - Dead on Arrival
as Fredo Kovacs
2010
Sinners and Saints
as Mr. Rhykin
2010
Spear of Destiny
as Baron Von Haan
2010
Oko ve zdi
2009
NCIS: Los Angeles
as Mattias Draeger
2009
Merlin and the War of the Dragons
as The Mage
2008
La conjura de El Escorial
as Espinosa
2008
Schroeder's Wonderful World
as John Gregory
2007
Nanking
as John Rabe
2007
Primeval
as Jacob Krieg
2007
Beerfest
as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
2006
The Celestine Prophecy
as Jensen
2006
The Da Vinci Code
as André Vernet
2006
Chain Reaction
as Police Man
2006
See Arnold Run
as Arnold Schwarzenegger
2005
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
as Le baron Hengen
2005
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Michael Kogan in The Replacement Killers (archive footage)
2004
The Poet
as Vashon
2003
Baltic Storm
as Erik Westermark
2003
House of the Dead
as Kirk
2003
Nachtschicht
as Friedrich Otto Winterstein
2003
Heart of America
as Harold Lewis
2003
Davon stirbt man nicht
as Everett Burns
2002
Dark Asylum
as Dr. Fallon
2001
24
as Sergei Bazhaev
2001
Ripper: Letter from Hell
as Detective Kelso
2001
Gunblast Vodka
as Sacha Roublev
2001
Last Run
as Andrus Bukarin
2001
The Elite
as Avi
2001
Jack the Dog
as Klaus
2001
Final Ascent
as Paul
2000
The Last Stop
as Fritz
2000
Padre Pio: Miracle Man
as Visitatore
2000
Poison
as Carl Krieger
2000
The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000
as Hans Hagemann
1999
Heaven's Fire
as Quentin Darby
1999
Der blonde Affe
as Jan Vleuten
1999
Esther
as Haman
1999
Wing Commander
as Cdr. Paul Gerald
1999
The Fall
as József Kovács
1999
Beckmann
as Self
1999
The Directors
as Self
1999
From China with Love
as Paul Konen
1998
Human Bomb
as Gerhardt Dach
1998
The Replacement Killers
as Michael Kogan
1998
Air Force One
as Alexander Radek
1997
Leute heute
as Self
1997
DNA
as Dr. Carl Wessinger
1997
The English Patient
as Major Muller
1996
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
as Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
1996
On Dangerous Ground
as Carl Morgan
1996
Alisea and the Dream Prince
as Kurdok
1996
Fesseln
as Günther
1995
Tödliche Wahl
as Alex Bronner
1995
Judge Dredd
as Judge Griffin
1995
In the Mouth of Madness
as Sutter Cane
1995
The Other Side of the Law
as Simon McQuarie
1994
Guns of Honor
as Jack Neumann
1994
Trigger Fast
as Jack Neumann
1994
Lie Down with Lions
as Marteau
1994
The Last Border
as Duke
1993
Der Fall Lucona
as Jorunalist Strasser
1993
The Fire Next Time
as Larry Richter
1993
Body of Evidence
as Dr. Alan Paley
1993
Jewels
as Joachim von Mannheim
1992
Interceptor
as Phillips
1992
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
as Woodsman
1992
Hurricane Smith
as Charlie Dowd
1992
Robin Hood
as Sir Miles Folcanet
1991
DAS!
as Self
1991
The Man Inside
as Günter Wallraff
1990
Kill Cruise
as The Skipper
1990
The Fourth War
as Col. Valachev
1990
A Dry White Season
as Captain Stolz
1989
The Seventh Sign
as David Bannon
1988
Beverly Hills Cop II
as Maxwell Dent
1987
Devil's Paradise
as Escher
1987
Terminus
as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
1987
Killing Cars
as Ralph Korda
1986
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
as Adam Berwid
1985
The Cop & the Girl
as Der Bulle
1985
Das Boot
as Der Alte
1985
Dune
as Duke Leto Atreides
1984
Forbidden
as Fritz Friedländer
1984
The Keep
as Captain Klaus Woermann
1983
Love is Forever
as General Siegfried Kaplan
1983
Destination Dune
as Self
1983
War and Peace
as Kevin
1982
Das Boot: Behind The Scenes
as Self
1981
Das Boot
as Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
1981
A Case For Two
as KHK Max Gerber
1981
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
So weit das Auge reicht
as Alexander Späh
1980
NDR Talk Show
as Self
1979
Operation Ganymed
as Oss
1977
The Consequence
as Martin Kurath
1977
Kölner Treff
as Self
1976
Shirin's Wedding
as Aida
1976
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
as Ludwig Götten
1975
The Brutalization of Franz Blum
as Franz Blum
1974
One or the Other of Us
as Bernd Ziegenhals
1974
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Hehler
1973
Auf Befehl erschossen
as Franz Sass
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Man at the Meeting Table
1972
Scene of the Crime
as Dieter Brodschella
1970
Scene of the Crime
as Klaus Linder
1970
Scene of the Crime
as Hans Rodenburg
1970
Scene of the Crime
as Kesting
1970
Bambi
as Self
1948