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Jürgen Prochnow is a German-born 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).
Born
Tuesday, 10 June 1941
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Last Rifleman | Friedrich Mueller | 2023 |
| A Handful of Water | Konrad Hausnick / Konrad | 2020 |
| Real Men | Himself - Actor | 2019 |
| A Hidden Life | Major Schlegel | 2019 |
| Half Brothers | Herr Ryser / Herr Dryser | 2016 |
| Damascus Cover | Franz Ludin | 2017 |
| Lore | Andreas Gruber | 2017 |
| The Final Journey | Eduard Leander / Eduard | 2017 |
| Kundschafter des Friedens | Kern | 2017 |
| The Dark Side of the Moon | Pius Ott | 2016 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Last Rifleman | Friedrich Mueller | 2023 |
| A Handful of Water | Konrad Hausnick / Konrad | 2020 |
| Real Men | Himself - Actor | 2019 |
| A Hidden Life | Major Schlegel | 2019 |
| Half Brothers | Herr Ryser / Herr Dryser | 2016 |
| Damascus Cover | Franz Ludin | 2017 |
| Lore | Andreas Gruber | 2017 |
| The Final Journey | Eduard Leander / Eduard | 2017 |
| Kundschafter des Friedens | Kern | 2017 |
| The Dark Side of the Moon | Pius Ott | 2016 |
| Remember | Rudy Kurlander #4 | 2015 |
| Elstree 1976 | Judge Griffin | 2015 |
| Hitman: Agent 47 | Tobias | 2015 |
| Dengler | Dr. Schweikert | 2015 |
| Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces | Woodsman | 2014 |
| Die Kinder meiner Tochter | Ernst Blessing | 2013 |
| Ohne Gnade! | Helmutchen | 2013 |
| Company of Heroes | Luca Gruenewald | 2013 |
| Die Schuld der Erben | Kurt Hanson | 2012 |
| Luck | Racetrack Owner | 2011 |
| Amigo | Fredo Kovacs | 2010 |
| Sinners and Saints | Mr. Rhykin | 2010 |
| Spear of Destiny | Von Hahn / Baron Von Haan | 2010 |
| The Eye | Mr. Hooked | 2009 |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | Mattias Draeger | 2009 |
| Merlin and the War of the Dragons | The Mage | 2008 |
| The Conspiracy | Espinosa | 2008 |
| Ohne einander | Ernest | 2007 |
| Here's Looking at You, Boy | Martin Kurath | 2007 |
| Nanking | John Rabe | 2007 |
| Primeval | Jacob Krieg | 2007 |
| Schroeder's Wonderful World | John Gregory | 2006 |
| Beerfest | Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen | 2006 |
| The Da Vinci Code | Andre Vernet / André Vernet | 2006 |
| The Celestine Prophecy | Jensen | 2006 |
| Chain Reaction | Police Officer / Police Man | 2006 |
| See Arnold Run | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 2005 |
| Julie, chevalier de Maupin | Le baron de Hengen | 2004 |
| Los Angeles Plays Itself | Michael Kogan in The Replacement Killers | 2003 |
| Baltic Storm | Erik Westermark | 2003 |
| House of the Dead | Kirk | 2003 |
| Nachtschicht | Friedrich Otto Winterstein | 2003 |
| Heart of America | Harold Lewis | 2002 |
| 24 | Sergei Bazhaev | 2001 |
| Dark Asylum | Dr. Fallon | 2001 |
| Ripper | Detective Kelso | 2001 |
| Gunblast Vodka | Sacha Roublev | 2001 |
| Last Run | Andrus Bukarin | 2001 |
| The Elite | Avi | 2001 |
| Jack the Dog | Klaus / Klaus (as Juergen Prochnow) | 2001 |
| Padre Pio | Visitatore / The Inquisitor | 2000 |
| Poison | Carl Krieger | 2000 |
| The Last Stop | Fritz | 2000 |
| Heaven's Fire | Quentin Darby | 1999 |
| Der blonde Affe | Jan Vleuten | 1999 |
| Esther | Haman | 1999 |
| The Fall | József Kovács | 1999 |
| Wing Commander | Cdr. Paul Gerald | 1999 |
| From China with Love | Paul Konen | 1998 |
| The Replacement Killers | Michael Kogan | 1998 |
| Air Force One | General Alexander Radek / General Ivan Radek | 1997 |
| Der Schrei der Liebe | Holger | 1997 |
| DNA | Dr. Carl Wessinger | 1996 |
| The Great War: 1914-1918 | Kaiser Wilhelm II | 1996 |
| The English Patient | Major Muller | 1996 |
| On Dangerous Ground | Carl Morgan | 1996 |
| Alisea and the Dream Prince | Kurdok (as Jurgen Prochnow) | 1996 |
| Tödliche Wahl | Alex Bronner | 1995 |
| Judge Dredd | Judge Griffin | 1995 |
| In the Mouth of Madness | Sutter Cane | 1995 |
| Tales of the Wild | Simon McQuarie | 1994 |
| Guns of Honor | Jack Neumann | 1994 |
| Trigger Fast | Jack Neumann | 1994 |
| Red Eagle | Marteau | 1994 |
| The Last Border | Duke | 1993 |
| Der Fall Lucona | Hans Strasser / Jorunalist Strasser | 1993 |
| The Fire Next Time | Larry Richter | 1993 |
| Body of Evidence | Dr. Alan Paley / Doctor Alan Paley | 1993 |
| Jewels | Joachim von Mannheim | 1992 |
| Interceptor | Phillips | 1992 |
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Woodsman | 1992 |
| Hurricane Smith | Charlie Dowd | 1992 |
| Robin Hood | Sir Miles Folcanet | 1991 |
| The Man Inside | Günter Wallraff / Gunter Wallraff | 1990 |
| Kill Cruise | The Skipper | 1990 |
| The Fourth War | Col. Valachev | 1990 |
| A Dry White Season | Captain Stolz | 1989 |
| The Seventh Sign | David Bannon | 1988 |
| Beverly Hills Cop II | Maxwell Dent | 1987 |
| Devil's Paradise | Escher | 1987 |
| Terminus | Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver | 1987 |
| War and Peace | Kevin | 1986 |
| Killing Cars | Ralph Korda | 1986 |
| Das Boot | Der Alte / Kommandant („Der Alte“) | 1986 |
| Murder: By Reason of Insanity | Adam Berwid | 1985 |
| Der Bulle & das Mädchen | The Cop / Der Bulle | 1985 |
| Forbidden | Fritz Friedländer | 1985 |
| Dune | Duke Leto Atreides | 1984 |
| The Keep | Captain Klaus Woermann / Woermann | 1983 |
| Love Is Forever | General Siegfried Kaplan | 1983 |
| A Case for Two | KHK Max Gerber | 1982 |
| The Boat | Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte / Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte' | 1981 |
| Wetten, dass..? | Self | 1981 |
| As Far as the Eye Sees | Alexander Späh | 1980 |
| Operation Ganymed | Oss | 1977 |
| The Consequence | Martin Kurath | 1977 |
| Schaurige Geschichten | Piet | 1976 |
| Shirins Hochzeit | Aida | 1976 |
| The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum | Ludwig Götten | 1975 |
| One or the Other | Bernd Ziegenhals | 1974 |
| The Brutalization of Franz Blum | Franz Blum | 1974 |
| Tenderness of the Wolves | Hehler | 1973 |
| The Merchant of Four Seasons | weiterer Stammtisch-Bruder / Mann Am Stammtisch | 1972 |
| The Hitch of It | Joky | 1972 |
