Jürgen Prochnow

Actor Jun 10 (age 84) Berlin, Germany 1948–2025 (77 year career)

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Biography

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 …

Known For

Film

Das Boot

Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'

Film

The Da Vinci Code

André Vernet

Film

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Woodsman

Film

The English Patient

Major Muller

Film

In the Mouth of Madness

Sutter Cane

Film

Air Force One

Alexander Radek

Film

Beverly Hills Cop II

Maxwell Dent

Film

Dune

Duke Leto Atreides

Filmography

Acting (153)

Movies (124)

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'

2025

as Self

The Last Rifleman

2023

as Friedrich Mueller

6.6

U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'

2023

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune

2021

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

4.0

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

2021

as Self - Das Boot Actor

7.2

The old Man and the Pain in the Neck

as Wilhelm Schürmann

A Handful of Water

as Konrad

A Hidden Life

as Major Schlegel

Real Men

as Himself - Actor

The Final Journey

as Eduard

Damascus Cover

as Franz Ludin

Old Agent Men

as Kern

Half Brothers

as Herr Dryser

The Dark Side of the Moon

as Pius Ott

Hitman: Agent 47

as Tobias

Remember

as Rudy Kurlander #4

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

2014

as Woodsman

7.2

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

2014

as Self (archive footage)

Company of Heroes

as Luca Gruenewald

Ohne Gnade

as Helmutchen

Die Kinder meiner Tochter

as Ernst Blessing

Ein schmaler Grat

as Uwe Wolfmann

Die Schuld der Erben

as Kurt Hanson

Sinners and Saints

as Mr. Rhykin

Amigo - Dead on Arrival

as Fredo Kovacs

Spear of Destiny

as Baron Von Haan

Oko ve zdi

Merlin and the War of the Dragons

2008

as The Mage

4.0

La conjura de El Escorial

as Espinosa

Primeval

as Jacob Krieg

Ohne einander

as Ernest

Nanking

as John Rabe

The Da Vinci Code

as André Vernet

Schröders wunderbare Welt

2006

as John Gregory

3.5

Beerfest

2006

as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen

5.9

The Celestine Prophecy

as Jensen

Chain Reaction

as Police Man

See Arnold Run

as Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.5

Julie, chevalier de Maupin

2005

as Le baron Hengen

3.7

Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005)

2005

as Self

5.5

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

as Michael Kogan in The Replacement Killers (archive footage)

The Poet

as Vashon

House of the Dead

as Kirk

Baltic Storm

as Erik Westermark

Heart of America

as Harold Lewis

Davon stirbt man nicht

2002

as Everett Burns

3.5

Ripper: Letter from Hell

as Detective Kelso

The Elite

as Avi

Jack the Dog

as Klaus

Last Run

as Andrus Bukarin

Dark Asylum

as Dr. Fallon

Gunblast Vodka

as Sacha Roublev

The Last Stop

as Fritz

Poison

as Carl Krieger

Final Ascent

as Paul

Esther

as Haman

Wing Commander

as Cdr. Paul Gerald

Heaven's Fire

as Quentin Darby

Der blonde Affe

as Jan Vleuten

The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000

as Hans Hagemann

The Fall

as József Kovács

The Replacement Killers

as Michael Kogan

Human Bomb

as Gerhardt Dach

From China with Love

as Paul Konen

Air Force One

as Alexander Radek

The Cry of Love

as Holger

DNA

as Dr. Carl Wessinger

4.0

Das Boot - The Director's Cut

1997

as der Alte

The English Patient

as Major Muller

On Dangerous Ground

as Carl Morgan

Judge Dredd

as Judge Griffin

In the Mouth of Madness

as Sutter Cane

Fesseln

as Günther

Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'

as Himself

Tödliche Wahl

as Alex Bronner

Guns of Honor

as Jack Neumann

The Other Side of the Law

as Simon McQuarie

Lie Down with Lions

as Marteau

Trigger Fast

as Jack Neumann

Body of Evidence

as Dr. Alan Paley

Der Fall Lucona

as Jorunalist Strasser

The Last Border

as Duke

Die Wildnis

as Brenner

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

as Woodsman

Hurricane Smith

as Charlie Dowd

Interceptor

as Phillips

Robin Hood

as Sir Miles Folcanet

The Fourth War

as Col. Valachev

Kill Cruise

as The Skipper

The Man Inside

as Günter Wallraff

The Schoolmaster

as Rozinsky

A Dry White Season

as Captain Stolz

The Seventh Sign

as David Bannon

Beverly Hills Cop II

as Maxwell Dent

Devil's Paradise

as Escher

Terminus

as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver

3.9

Killing Cars

1986

as Ralph Korda

2.8

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

as Adam Berwid

Blitz

as Ralph Korda

The Cop & the Girl

as Der Bulle

Dune

as Duke Leto Atreides

Forbidden

as Fritz Friedländer

The Keep

as Captain Klaus Woermann

5.6

Love Is Forever

1983

as General Siegfried Kaplan

Destination Dune

as Self

War and Peace

as Kevin

Das Boot

as Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'

8.1

Das Boot: Behind The Scenes

1981

as Self

2.0

So weit das Auge reicht

1980

as Alexander Späh

Kotte

as Günther Kotte

Operation Ganymed

as Oss

The Consequence

as Martin Kurath

Shirin's Wedding

as Aida

Hans in Luck

as Hans Schmidtke

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

1975

as Ludwig Götten

6.9

One or the Other of Us

1974

as Bernd Ziegenhals

4.4

The Brutalization of Franz Blum

1974

as Franz Blum

5.2

Tenderness of the Wolves

as Hehler

Knast

as Roloff

Zoff

as Joky

Auf Befehl erschossen

1972

as Franz Sass

2.0

The Merchant of Four Seasons

1971

as Man at the Meeting Table

6.6

Unternehmer

1970

as Arnold

2.0

The Guardian Angel

as Albert Klosser

Television (29)

Wer weiß denn sowas?

2015

as Self

7.6

Quizduell-Olymp

2015

as Self

NCIS: Los Angeles

2009

as Mattias Draeger

7.5

Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker

2008

as Self

Semperopernball

2006

as Self

Nachtschicht

2003

as Friedrich Otto Winterstein

6.2

2001

as Sergei Bazhaev

7.8

Padre Pio: Miracle Man

as Visitatore

Volle Kanne

as Self

Beckmann

as Self

The Directors

as Self

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

as Self

Leute heute

as Self

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

1996

as Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)

8.2

Alisea and the Dream Prince

1996

as Kurdok

5.2

Tödliche Wahl

1995

as Alex Bronner

The Fire Next Time

1993

as Larry Richter

5.9

Jewels

1992

as Joachim von Mannheim

DAS!

as Self

Das Boot

as Der Alte

Goldene Kamera

as Self

Wetten, dass..?

as Self

A Case For Two

as KHK Max Gerber

NDR Talk Show

as Self

Bavarian Film Awards

as Self

Kölner Treff

1976

as Self

6.0

Schaurige Geschichten

1976

as Piet

Scene of the Crime

1970

as Dieter Brodschella

6.2

Bambi

1948

as Self

9.0