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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 10, 1941
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Also Known As
- یورگن پروچنو
Jürgen Prochnow
1.4 Popularity
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 (2010). He is a Goldene Kamera, Bavarian Film Awards, and Bambi Award winner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jürgen Prochnow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Himself
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
2025
6.6
Friedrich Mueller
The Last Rifleman
2023
6.3
Self (archive footage)
U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'
2023
4.0
Self (voice) (archive footage)
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
2021
7.2
Self - Das Boot Actor
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
2021
5.0
Wilhelm Schürmann
The old Man and the Pain in the Neck
2020
4.5
Konrad
A Handful of Water
2020
7.2
Major Schlegel
A Hidden Life
2019
5.8
Himself - Actor
Real Men
2019
5.6
Franz Ludin
Damascus Cover
2017
Credits
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
as Himself
2025
0.0
The Last Rifleman
as Friedrich Mueller
2023
6.6
U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'
as Self (archive footage)
2023
6.3
The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2021
4.0
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
as Self - Das Boot Actor
2021
7.2
The old Man and the Pain in the Neck
as Wilhelm Schürmann
2020
5.0
A Handful of Water
as Konrad
2020
4.5
A Hidden Life
as Major Schlegel
2019
7.2
Real Men
as Himself - Actor
2019
5.8
Damascus Cover
as Franz Ludin
2017
5.6
The Final Journey
as Eduard
2017
6.6
Old Agent Men
as Kern
2017
5.9
Half Brothers
as Herr Dryser
2016
5.0
The Dark Side of the Moon
as Pius Ott
2016
5.7
🎬
Quizduell-Olymp
as Self
2015
0.0
Remember
as Rudy Kurlander #4
2015
7.3
Hitman: Agent 47
as Tobias
2015
5.9
Wer weiß denn sowas?
as Self
2015
7.6
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
as Self (archive footage)
2014
6.7
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
as Woodsman
2014
7.3
Die Kinder meiner Tochter
as Ernst Blessing
2013
4.6
Ohne Gnade
as Helmutchen
2013
3.5
Company of Heroes
as Luca Gruenewald
2013
5.1
Ein schmaler Grat
as Uwe Wolfmann
2013
4.0
🎬
Die Schuld der Erben
as Kurt Hanson
2012
2.0
Amigo - Dead on Arrival
as Fredo Kovacs
2010
3.8
Sinners and Saints
as Mr. Rhykin
2010
5.6
Spear of Destiny
as Baron Von Haan
2010
5.3
Oko ve zdi
2009
4.2
NCIS: Los Angeles
as Mattias Draeger
2009
7.5
Merlin and the War of the Dragons
as The Mage
2008
4.0
🎬
Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker
as Self
2008
0.0
La conjura de El Escorial
as Espinosa
2008
4.7
🎬
Ohne einander
as Ernest
2007
2.0
Nanking
as John Rabe
2007
7.1
Primeval
as Jacob Krieg
2007
6.1
Schröders wunderbare Welt
as John Gregory
2006
3.5
Beerfest
as Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen
2006
5.9
The Celestine Prophecy
as Jensen
2006
5.1
The Da Vinci Code
as André Vernet
2006
6.7
Chain Reaction
as Police Man
2006
4.8
🎬
Semperopernball
as Self
2006
0.0
🎬
Rilke Projekt: Zwischen Tag Und Traum (Live 2005)
as Self
2005
5.5
See Arnold Run
as Arnold Schwarzenegger
2005
4.5
Julie, chevalier de Maupin
as Le baron Hengen
2005
3.7
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Michael Kogan in The Replacement Killers (archive footage)
2004
7.6
The Poet
as Vashon
2003
4.1
Baltic Storm
as Erik Westermark
2003
4.8
House of the Dead
as Kirk
2003
3.1
Nachtschicht
as Friedrich Otto Winterstein
2003
6.2
Heart of America
as Harold Lewis
2003
4.9
Davon stirbt man nicht
as Everett Burns
2002
3.5
Dark Asylum
as Dr. Fallon
2001
3.7
24
as Sergei Bazhaev
2001
7.8
Ripper: Letter from Hell
as Detective Kelso
2001
4.5
Gunblast Vodka
as Sacha Roublev
2001
3.3
Last Run
as Andrus Bukarin
2001
3.4
The Elite
as Avi
2001
3.2
Jack the Dog
as Klaus
2001
3.2
Final Ascent
as Paul
2000
3.0
The Last Stop
as Fritz
2000
4.5
Padre Pio: Miracle Man
as Visitatore
2000
6.7
Poison
as Carl Krieger
2000
2.8
The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000
as Hans Hagemann
1999
3.7
🎬
Volle Kanne
as Self
1999
3.8
Heaven's Fire
as Quentin Darby
1999
3.9
Der blonde Affe
as Jan Vleuten
1999
3.0
Esther
as Haman
1999
6.7
Wing Commander
as Cdr. Paul Gerald
1999
4.8
The Fall
as József Kovács
1999
3.6
Beckmann
as Self
1999
2.0
The Directors
as Self
1999
5.8
From China with Love
as Paul Konen
1998
2.0
Human Bomb
as Gerhardt Dach
1998
3.3
The Replacement Killers
as Michael Kogan
1998
6.3
🎬
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
as Self
1998
4.0
Das Boot - The Director's Cut
as der Alte
1997
0.0
Air Force One
as Alexander Radek
1997
6.5
🎬
Leute heute
as Self
1997
4.8
DNA
as Dr. Carl Wessinger
1997
4.0
🎬
The Cry of Love
as Holger
1997
3.6
The English Patient
as Major Muller
1996
7.2
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
as Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
1996
8.2
On Dangerous Ground
as Carl Morgan
1996
4.8
Alisea and the Dream Prince
as Kurdok
1996
5.2
Fesseln
as Günther
1995
2.5
🎬
Tödliche Wahl
as Alex Bronner
1995
0.0
Tödliche Wahl
as Alex Bronner
1995
2.0
Judge Dredd
as Judge Griffin
1995
5.8
🎬
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
as Himself
1995
1.5
In the Mouth of Madness
as Sutter Cane
1995
7.2
The Other Side of the Law
as Simon McQuarie
1994
4.0
Guns of Honor
as Jack Neumann
1994
3.1
Trigger Fast
as Jack Neumann
1994
2.0
Lie Down with Lions
as Marteau
1994
3.7
🎬
Die Wildnis
as Brenner
1993
2.0
The Last Border
as Duke
1993
4.0
Der Fall Lucona
as Jorunalist Strasser
1993
5.0
The Fire Next Time
as Larry Richter
1993
5.9
Body of Evidence
as Dr. Alan Paley
1993
5.0
Jewels
as Joachim von Mannheim
1992
6.0
Interceptor
as Phillips
1992
5.9
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
as Woodsman
1992
7.4
Hurricane Smith
as Charlie Dowd
1992
4.3
Robin Hood
as Sir Miles Folcanet
1991
5.7
DAS!
as Self
1991
4.2
🎬
The Man Inside
as Günter Wallraff
1990
2.0
🎬
The Schoolmaster
as Rozinsky
1990
2.0
Kill Cruise
as The Skipper
1990
3.4
The Fourth War
as Col. Valachev
1990
5.2
A Dry White Season
as Captain Stolz
1989
6.6
The Seventh Sign
as David Bannon
1988
6.0
Beverly Hills Cop II
as Maxwell Dent
1987
6.5
Devil's Paradise
as Escher
1987
3.5
Terminus
as Sir / Doctor / Yellow Truck's Driver
1987
3.9
Killing Cars
as Ralph Korda
1986
2.8
Murder: By Reason of Insanity
as Adam Berwid
1985
3.5
The Cop & the Girl
as Der Bulle
1985
4.5
🎬
Blitz
as Ralph Korda
1985
2.0
Das Boot
as Der Alte
1985
8.6
Dune
as Duke Leto Atreides
1984
6.2
Forbidden
as Fritz Friedländer
1984
5.0
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
The Keep
as Captain Klaus Woermann
1983
5.6
Love Is Forever
as General Siegfried Kaplan
1983
4.6
Destination Dune
as Self
1983
5.0
War and Peace
as Kevin
1982
2.0
Das Boot: Behind The Scenes
as Self
1981
2.0
Das Boot
as Captain Lieutenant 'Der Alte'
1981
8.1
Das Boot - The Original Uncut Version
1981
0.0
A Case For Two
as KHK Max Gerber
1981
5.3
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
So weit das Auge reicht
as Alexander Späh
1980
0.0
🎬
Bavarian Film Awards
as Self
1979
0.0
🎬
Kotte
as Günther Kotte
1979
2.0
NDR Talk Show
as Self
1979
6.5
Operation Ganymed
as Oss
1977
4.5
The Consequence
as Martin Kurath
1977
6.2
🎬
Hans in Luck
as Hans Schmidtke
1976
2.0
🎬
Schaurige Geschichten
as Piet
1976
0.0
Kölner Treff
as Self
1976
6.0
Shirin's Wedding
as Aida
1976
2.8
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
as Ludwig Götten
1975
6.9
The Brutalization of Franz Blum
as Franz Blum
1974
5.2
One or the Other of Us
as Bernd Ziegenhals
1974
4.4
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Hehler
1973
5.6
Auf Befehl erschossen
as Franz Sass
1972
2.0
🎬
Knast
as Roloff
1972
2.0
🎬
Zoff
as Joky
1972
5.2
The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Man at the Meeting Table
1971
6.6
🎬
Unternehmer
as Arnold
1970
2.0
Scene of the Crime
as Dieter Brodschella
1970
6.1
Scene of the Crime
as Klaus Linder
1970
6.1
Scene of the Crime
as Hans Rodenburg
1970
6.1
Scene of the Crime
as Kesting
1970
6.1
Bambi
as Self
1948
9.0
🎬
The Guardian Angel
as Albert Klosser
N/A
0.0