Bernhard Goetzke
Bernhard Goetzke ( born June 5, 1884 in Gdansk, † October 7, 1964 in Berlin) was a German actor of the silent film era.
Career
After his training as an actor, he worked initially at theaters in Copenhagen, Dresden and then at Max Reinhardt's theaters in Berlin. His most significant role in the film is the impressive display of death in Fritz Lang's The tired death in 1921. His work with long continued in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler in 1922 as a prosecutor Norbert von Wenk and Volker von Alzey as in Ring of the Nibelungs 1924. Thereafter he took over in 1925, the main role of the engineer Kramer in Gerhard Lamprecht's social drama the disreputable and also starred in his successor illegitimate 1926. During the same year he occupied Alfred Hitchcock in Munich in the lead role of his film the mountain Eagle ( the Mountain Eagle). He had held in 1929 in Salamander, one of the first German -Soviet co His last major role. After the advent of sound film, he shared the fate of many colleagues and its importance waned. He joined now only as a supporting actor in appearance.
In the era of National Socialism, he was inducted into the Gottbegnadeten list shortly before the war ended.