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Jürgen Prochnow (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈpʁɔxnoː] listen ; born 10 June 1941) is a German film, stage, and television actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Captain "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot.[1]

Jürgen Prochnow
Prochnow in 2019
Born (1941-06-10) June 10, 1941 (age 81)
Berlin, Nazi Germany
Citizenship
    • Germany
    • United States (since 2004)
OccupationActor
Years active1963–present
Spouses
  • Isabel Goslar
    (m. 1982; div. 1997)
  • Birgit Stein
    (m. 2004; div. 2014)
  • Verena Wengler
    (m. 2015)
PartnerAntonia Reininghaus (1978–1981)
Children3

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.


Early life


Prochnow was born in Berlin and brought up in Düsseldorf, the son of an engineer.[2]


Career


Jürgen Prochnow portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in See Arnold Run, a 2005 film about the actor's political career in California. He played Commander Paul Gerald in Wing Commander (1999). He was the main antagonist in the Broken Lizard film, Beerfest (2006).

Prochnow dubbed Sylvester Stallone's voice in the German version of Rocky (1976) and Rocky II (1979), as well as F.I.S.T and Paradise Alley (both 1978). He later acted alongside Stallone in the 1995 movie Judge Dredd. After the retirement of Stallone's long-time voice actor Thomas Danneberg, Prochnow assumed this job in 2018 with Creed II. He usually also dubs his own roles in English-language productions.[3]

Prochnow and his older brother, Dieter [de] appeared in The Man Inside (1990), in which Jürgen played the leading role and Dieter a supporting role.

In 1996, he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.[4]


Personal life


In the early 1980s, Prochnow was in a relationship with Austrian actress Antonia Reininghaus [de], who fatally poisoned their 7-year-old daughter, Johanna, in 1987. In 1982, he married actor Jürgen Goslar's daughter, Isabel Goslar, with whom he has two children: a daughter, Mona, and a son, Roman. The couple divorced in 1997. From 2004 until the divorce in 2014, he was married to Birgit Stein [de], a German actress and screenwriter. Stein died in August 2018 in a motorcycle accident in Kanab, Utah.[5] Since 2015, he has been married to actress Verena Wengler.[6]

Prochnow used to divide his time between Los Angeles and Munich. He received U.S. citizenship in 2004.[7] In 2017, he announced that he had sold his house in California and would be moving to Berlin.[8]


Awards



Filmography



Audiobooks (excerpt)



References


  1. "German Hollywood star Jürgen Prochnow turns 80". Deutsche Welle.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Juergen Prochnow Biography (1941-). Filmreference.com. Retrieved on 18 June 2017.
  3. "Deutsche Synchronkartei (german)". synchrondatei.de. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  4. "Berlinale: 1996 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  5. "Jürgen Prochnow trauert um seine Ex-Frau". 15 August 2018.
  6. ""Das Boot"-Schauspieler heiratet zum dritten Mal".
  7. "Jürgen Prochnow: Making It as a German Actor in Hollywood".
  8. Jürgen Prochnow über Ehrgeiz - Kultur - Süddeutsche.de. Sueddeutsche.de (20 January 2017). Retrieved on 18 June 2017.
  9. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)



На других языках


- [en] Jürgen Prochnow

[es] Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow (( audio (?·i), Berlín, 10 de junio de 1941) es un actor alemán. Ha intervenido, por lo general en papeles de malo, en producciones de Hollywood y de varios países europeos.

[ru] Прохнов, Юрген

Ю́рген Про́хнов (нем. Jürgen Prochnow; родился 10 июня 1941) — немецкий киноактёр. Его наиболее известными в других странах ролями являются роль капитана подлодки в фильме «Подводная лодка», герцога Лето Атрейдеса в фильме «Дюна» и злодея Максвелла Дента в фильме «Полицейский из Беверли-Хиллз 2».



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