Jürgen Prochnow
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jürgen Prochnow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
as André Vernet
Dune (1984)
as Duke Leto Atreides
Judge Dredd (1995)
as Judge Griffin
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
as Woodsman
Air Force One (1997)
as Alexander Radek
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
as Maxwell Dent
Das Boot (1981)
as Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
The English Patient (1996)
as Major Muller
Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
as Tobias
A Dry White Season (1989)
as Captain Stolz
The Replacement Killers (1998)
as Michael Kogan
A Hidden Life (2019)
as Major Schlegel
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
as Sutter Cane
The Seventh Sign (1988)
as David Bannon
Body of Evidence (1993)
as Dr. Alan Paley
House of the Dead (2003)
as Kirk
Robin Hood (1991)
as Sir Miles Folcanet
Primeval (2007)
as Jacob Krieg
The Last Rifleman (2023)
as Friedrich Mueller
Beerfest (2006)
as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
Remember (2015)
as Rudy Kurlander #4
Wing Commander (1999)
as Cdr. Paul Gerald
Company of Heroes (2013)
as Luca Gruenewald
The Keep (1983)
as Captain Klaus Woermann
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
as Ludwig Götten
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)
as Woodsman
The Celestine Prophecy (2006)
as Jensen
Poison (2000)
as Carl Krieger
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
as Man at the Meeting Table
The Fourth War (1990)
as Col. Valachev
Ripper: Letter from Hell (2001)
as Detective Kelso
Esther (1999)
as Haman
Final Ascent (2000)
as Paul
Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
as Adam Berwid
DNA (1997)
as Dr. Carl Wessinger
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
The old Man and the Pain in the Neck (2020)
as Wilhelm Schürmann
Love is Forever (1983)
as General Siegfried Kaplan
Damascus Cover (2017)
as Franz Ludin
Sinners and Saints (2010)
as Mr. Rhykin
Forbidden (1984)
as Fritz Friedländer
Spear of Destiny (2010)
as Baron Von Haan
Nanking (2007)
as John Rabe
Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008)
as The Mage
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune (2021)
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Heart of America (2003)
as Harold Lewis
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' (2025)
as Self
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
as Hehler
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story (2021)
as Self - Das Boot Actor
Fesseln (1995)
as Günther
Lie Down with Lions (1994)
as Marteau
One or the Other of Us (1974)
as Bernd Ziegenhals
Shirin's Wedding (1976)
as Aida
The Dark Side of the Moon (2016)
as Pius Ott
Old Agent Men (2017)
as Kern
So weit das Auge reicht (1980)
as Alexander Späh
The Cop & the Girl (1985)
as Der Bulle
The Guardian Angel (2018)
as Albert Klosser
Interceptor (1992)
as Phillips
Baltic Storm (2003)
as Erik Westermark
The Consequence (1977)
as Martin Kurath
Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2005)
as Le baron Hengen
Last Run (2001)
as Andrus Bukarin
Heaven's Fire (1999)
as Quentin Darby
Gunblast Vodka (2001)
as Sacha Roublev
Dark Asylum (2001)
as Dr. Fallon
Jack the Dog (2001)
as Klaus
Killing Cars (1986)
as Ralph Korda
Hurricane Smith (1992)
as Charlie Dowd
Die Kinder meiner Tochter (2013)
as Ernst Blessing
Blitz (1985)
as Ralph Korda
Terminus (1987)
as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
The Last Stop (2000)
as Fritz
Real Men (2019)
as Himself - Actor
Chain Reaction (2006)
as Police Man
The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)
as Franz Blum
On Dangerous Ground (1996)
as Carl Morgan
Knast (1972)
as Roloff
Davon stirbt man nicht (2002)
as Everett Burns
Kill Cruise (1990)
as The Skipper
Der Fall Lucona (1993)
as Jorunalist Strasser
See Arnold Run (2005)
as Arnold Schwarzenegger
La conjura de El Escorial (2008)
as Espinosa
The Last Border (1993)
as Duke
The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000 (1999)
as Hans Hagemann
Destination Dune (1983)
as Self
Half Brothers (2016)
as Herr Dryser
Der blonde Affe (1999)
as Jan Vleuten
The Final Journey (2017)
as Eduard
Devil's Paradise (1987)
as Escher
Die Schuld der Erben (2012)
as Kurt Hanson
The Elite (2001)
as Avi
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd' (1995)
as Himself
From China with Love (1998)
as Paul Konen
U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
The Cry of Love (1997)
as Holger
Kotte (1979)
as Günther Kotte
Amigo - Dead on Arrival (2010)
as Fredo Kovacs
Schroeder's Wonderful World (2007)
as John Gregory
The Man Inside (1990)
as Günter Wallraff
A Handful of Water (2020)
as Konrad
Das Boot: Behind The Scenes (1981)
as Self
Guns of Honor (1994)
as Jack Neumann
Ohne Gnade (2013)
as Helmutchen
Human Bomb (1998)
as Gerhardt Dach
Trigger Fast (1994)
as Jack Neumann
Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005) (2005)
as Self
The Other Side of the Law (1994)
as Simon McQuarie
War and Peace (1982)
as Kevin
Unternehmer (1970)
as Arnold
Auf Befehl erschossen (1972)
as Franz Sass
The Poet (2003)
as Vashon
Ein schmaler Grat (2013)
as Uwe Wolfmann
Operation Ganymed (1977)
as Oss
Ohne einander (2007)
as Ernest
Zoff (1972)
as Joky
Hans in Luck (1976)
as Hans Schmidtke
Oko ve zdi (2009)
Actor
The Fall (1999)
as József Kovács
Tödliche Wahl (1995)
as Alex Bronner
Die Wildnis (1993)
as Brenner
The Schoolmaster (1990)
as Rozinsky