John Gottowt

Personal Info

Birthday

June 15, 1881

Day of Death

1942-08-29

(61 years old)

Place of Birth

Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]

Also Known As

Isidor Gesang

John Gottowt

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 appearance was in Paul Wegener’s Der Student von Prag ("The Student of Prague") (1913).

Known For

Nosferatu

Waxworks

The Student of Prague

Nosferatu: The First Vampire

Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire

The Hunchback and the Dancer

The Living Dead

Algol: Tragedy of Power

Filmography

1998
Nosferatu: The First Vampire
as Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer
1932
The Living Dead
as Beamter des Mechanischen Museums
1930
The Twelfth Hour
as Sanitarium Doctor
1926
The Flight in the Night
as Bediensteter
1924
Waxworks
as Owner of the Waxworks
1922
Nosferatu
as Professor Bulwer
1921
Brennendes Land
as Wladislaus
1920
The Night of Queen Isabeau
as Buckliger Narr
Algol: Tragedy of Power
as Algol
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
as Guyard
The Hunchback and the Dancer
as James Wilton
Der rote Henker
as L'Angely
1917
Die Prinzessin von Neutralien
as The billionaire Vandergold
1913
Das schwarze Los
as Brighella
The Student of Prague
as Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer