Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈpʁɔxnoː] listen ; born 10 June 1941) is a German-American actor and voice actor. His best-known roles internationally have been as the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat captain in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides in Dune (1984), the minor but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One (1997), and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987).

Jürgen Prochnow
Born (1941-06-10) June 10, 1941
Berlin, Nazi Germany
Citizenship
  • Germany
  • United States
OccupationActor, voice actor
Years active1963–present
Spouse(s)
  • Isabel Goslar
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    (m. 1982; div. 1997)​
  • Birgit Stein
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    (m. 2004; div. 2014)​
  • Verena Wengler
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    (m. 2015)​
Partner(s)Antonia Reininghaus (1978–1981)
Children3

Early life

Prochnow was born in Berlin and brought up in Düsseldorf, the son of an engineer.[1] He studied acting at the Folkwang Academy in Essen.

Career

Thanks to his on-screen intensity and his fluency in English, he has become one of the most successful German actors in Hollywood. He portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in a film about the actor's political career in California, entitled See Arnold Run (2005); coincidentally, Prochnow was one of the actors considered for the title role in The Terminator (1984). He was the main antagonist in the Broken Lizard film, Beerfest (2006), which contains a submarine scene that references his role in Das Boot. He also played Commander Paul Gerald in Wing Commander (1999). In addition, he dubbed Sylvester Stallone's voice in the German version of Rocky (1976) and Rocky II (1979).

In 1996, he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

Personal life
Prochnow with his third wife, Verena Wengler, in 2019

In the early 1980s, Prochnow was in a relationship with Austrian actress Antonia Reininghaus, 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, a German actress and screenwriter. Stein died in August 2018 in a motorcycle accident in Kanab, Utah.[3] Since 2015, he has been married to actress Verena Wengler.[4]

His elder brother, Dieter (born May 22, 1939), is also an actor. Together, the brothers appeared in The Man Inside (1990), where Jürgen played the leading role and Dieter a small supporting role.

Prochnow used to divide his time between Los Angeles and Munich. He received U.S. citizenship in 2004.[5] In 2017, he announced that he had sold his house in California and would be moving to Berlin.[6]

Awards

Filmography
  • Zoff (1972) as Joky
  • The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972) as Mann Am Stammtisch / Man at the Meeting Table (uncredited)
  • Tatort: Jagdrevier (1973, TV) as Dieter Brodschella
  • The Tenderness of Wolves (1973) as Hehler
  • Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (1974) as Franz Blum
  • One or the Other of Us (1974) as Bernd Ziegenhals
  • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) as Ludwig Götten
  • Die Konsequenz (1977, The Consequence) as Martin Kurath
  • Operation Ganymed (1977) as Oss
  • Tatort: Das Mädchen von gegenüber (1977, TV) as Klaus Linder
  • So weit das Auge reicht (1980) as Alexander Späh
  • Das Boot (1981, The Boat) as Kapitänleutnant - Der Alte
  • Love Is Forever (1983, TV) as General Siegfried Kaplan
  • The Keep (1983) as Captain Klaus Woermann
  • Dune (1984) as Duke Leto Atreides
  • Forbidden (1984) as Fritz Friedländer
  • Der Bulle und das Mädchen (1985) as The Cop
  • Killing Cars (1986) as Ralph Korda
  • Terminus (1987) as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
  • Des Teufels Paradies (Devil's Paradise) (1987) as Escher
  • Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) as Maxwell Dent
  • The Seventh Sign (1988) as David Bannon
  • A Dry White Season (1989) as Captain Stolz
  • The Fourth War (1990) as Col. Valachev
  • Kill Cruise (1990) as The Skipper
  • The Man Inside (1990) as Günter Wallraff
  • The Schoolmaster (1990) as Rozinsky
  • Robin Hood (1991) as Sir Miles Folcanet
  • Hurricane Smith (1992) as Charlie Dowd
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) as Woodsman
  • Interceptor (1992) as Phillips
  • Jewels (1992, TV miniseries) as Joachim von Mannheim
  • Body of Evidence (1993) as Doctor Alan Paley
  • The Fire Next Time (1993, TV miniseries) as Larry Richter
  • Der Fall Lucona (1993) as Hans Strasser
  • The Last Border (1993) as Duke
  • Evelyn Hamanns Geschichten aus dem Leben (1993, TV series)
  • Die Wildnis (1993) as Brenner
  • Lie Down with Lions (1994, TV) as Marteau
  • Trigger Fast (1994) as Jack Neumann
  • Guns of Honor (1994, TV) as Jack Neumann
  • Aventures dans le Grand Nord (1994, TV series) as Simon McQuarie
  • In the Mouth of Madness (1994) as Sutter Cane
  • Judge Dredd (1995) as Judge Griffin
  • Tödliche Wahl (1995, TV miniseries) as Alex Bronner
  • Fesseln (1995, TV) as Guenther
  • Sorellina e il principe del sogno (1996, TV miniseries) as Kurdok
  • On Dangerous Ground (1996, TV) as Carl Morgan
  • The English Patient (1996) as Major Muller
  • Privateer 2: The Darkening (1996, video game) as Xavier Shondi
  • The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996, TV series) as Kaiser Wilhelm II
  • Der Schrei der Liebe (1997, TV) as Holger
  • DNA (1997) as Dr. Carl Wessinger
  • Air Force One (1997) as General Ivan Radek
  • The Replacement Killers (1998) as Michael Kogan
  • The Human Bomb (1998, TV) as Gerhardt Dach
  • Liebe im Schatten des Drachen (From China with Love) (1998) as Paul Konen
  • Schuldig (1998)
  • The Fall (1999) as József Kovács
  • Wing Commander (1999) as Cdr. Paul Gerald
  • Esther (1999, TV) as Haman
  • Der blonde Affe (1999, TV) as Jan Vleuten
  • Heaven's Fire (1999, TV) as Quentin Darby
  • Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (1999, TV) as Hans Hagemann
  • Youri (1999)
  • Gunblast Vodka (2000) as Sacha Roublev
  • Poison (2000, TV) as Carl Krieger
  • Padre Pio: Miracle Man (2000, TV) as Visitatore / The Inquisitor
  • The Last Stop (2000) as Fritz
  • Final Ascent (2000, TV) as Paul
  • Jack the Dog (2001) as Klaus
  • The Elite (2001) as Avi
  • Last Run (2001) as Andrus Bukarin
  • Ripper (2001) as Detective Kelso
  • Dark Asylum (2001) as Dr. Fallon
  • Heart of America (2002) as Harold Lewis
  • Davon stirbt man nicht (2002, TV) as Everett Burns
  • Checkpoint (2002)
  • House of the Dead (2003) as Capitain Victor Kirk
  • The Poet (2003) as Vashon
  • Baltic Storm (2003) as Erik Westermark
  • Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2004, TV) as Baron de Hengen
  • See Arnold Run (2005, TV) as Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Chain Reaction (2006) as
  • The Celestine Prophecy (2006) as Jensen
  • The Da Vinci Code (2006) as Andre Vernet
  • Beerfest (2006) as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
  • Schröders wunderbare Welt (2006) as John Gregory
  • Primeval (2007) as Jacob Krieg
  • Nanking (2007) as John Rabe
  • Ohne einander (2007, TV) as Ernest
  • Ein Fall für zwei (2007, TV series) as KHK Max Gerber
  • Dark Sector (2008, video game) as Yargo Mensik (voice)
  • Hellboy: The Science of Evil (2008, video game) as Herman von Klempt (voice)
  • La Conjura de El Escorial (2008) as Espinosa
  • Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008) as The Mage
  • Oko (2009) as Mr. Hooked
  • 24 (2010, TV series) as Sergei Bazhaev
  • Die Jagd nach der Heiligen Lanze (2010, TV) as Von Hahn
  • Tatort: Schlafende Hunde (2010, TV) as Hans Rodenburg
  • Sinners & Saints (2010) as Mr. Rhykin
  • Amigo – Bei Ankunft Tod (2010, TV) as Fredo Kovacs
  • NCIS: Los Angeles (2010–2014, TV series) as Mattias Draeger
  • Nachtschicht (2010, TV series) as Friedrich Otto Winterstein
  • Die Schuld der Erben (2012) as Kurt Hanson
  • Luck (2012, TV series) as Racetrack Owner
  • Ein schmaler Grat (2013) as Uwe Wolfmann
  • Company of Heroes (2013) as Luca Gruenewald
  • Ohne Gnade! (2013) as Helmutchen
  • Die Kinder meiner Tochter (2013) as Ernst Blessing
  • Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014) as Woodsman
  • Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) as Tobias
  • Remember (2015) as Rudy Kurlander No. 4
  • Die dunkle Seite des Mondes (2015) as Pius Ott
  • Interference (2016) as Herr Ryser
  • Tatort: Borowski und das verlorene Mädchen (2016, TV) as Kesting
  • Kundschafter des Friedens (2017) as Kern
  • Leanders letzte Reise (2017) as Eduard Leander
  • Damascus Cover (2017) as Franz Ludin
  • Dengler (2017) as Dr. Schweikert
  • Lore (2018, TV series) as Andreas Gruber
  • A Hidden Life (2019) as Major Schlegel (uncredited)

Audiobooks (excerpt)
  • 2013: Andreas Eschbach: Quantenmüll, publisher: Lübbe Audio (Audible)
  • 2016: Frank Herbert: Dune: Der Wüstenplanet (together with Simon Jäger and Marianne Rosenberg), publisher: Lübbe Audio, ISBN 978-3785752159
  • 2017: Andreas Eschbach: Eine unberührte Welt (together with Simon Jäger, Yara Blümel and Nicole Engeln), publisher: Lübbe Audio, ISBN 978-3785754979

References
  1. Juergen Prochnow Biography (1941-). Filmreference.com. Retrieved on 18 June 2017.
  2. "Berlinale: 1996 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_84285272/schauspieler-juergen-prochnow-trauert-um-seine-ex-frau-tragischer-unfall.html
  4. https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/juergen-prochnow-heiratet-zum-dritten-mal-5935346.html
  5. https://global.handelsblatt.com/european-lifestyles/making-it-as-a-german-actor-in-hollywood-413955
  6. Jürgen Prochnow über Ehrgeiz - Kultur - Süddeutsche.de. Sueddeutsche.de (20 January 2017). Retrieved on 18 June 2017.
  7. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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