John Gottowt
Birthday
1881/06/15
Day of death
1942/08/29 (61 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Also know as
Isidor Gesang
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...Read more
Acting
(1922) Nosferatu
as Professor Bulwer
(1919) Morphium
as ---
(1913) The Student of Prague
as Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer
(1932) The Living Dead
as Beamter des Mechanischen Museums
(1920) Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
as Guyard
(1998) Nosferatu: The First Vampire
as Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer
(1926) The Flight in the Night
as Bediensteter
(1922) Der schwarze Stern
as ---
(1921) Brennendes Land
as Wladislaus
(1920) The Night of Queen Isabeau
as Buckliger Narr
(1920) Algol: Tragedy of Power
as Algol
(1920) Der rote Henker
as L'Angely
(1924) Waxworks
as Owner of the Waxworks
(1930) The Twelfth Hour
as Sanitarium Doctor
(1919) Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend
as ---
(1913) Das schwarze Los
as ---
(1920) The Hunchback and the Dancer
as James Wilton
(1917) Die Prinzessin von Neutralien
as The billionaire Vandergold