John Gottowt
John Gottowt, when Isidore singing, ( born June 15, 1881 in Lemberg, Austria - Hungary, † August 29 1942 in Wieliczka, Poland) was an Austrian actor and film director for theaters and silent movies.
Life
After completing his education in Vienna Gottowt 1905 in Berlin began with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater as an actor and director on. Gottowt worked as a character actor and senior director in the sequence in Berlin, Vienna and Munich in various theaters. He was a gifted performer of old men and fools. His role in Reinhardt's professional ensemble was taken after his departure in 1911 by Ernst Lubitsch.
His first surviving film appearance was John Gottowt 1913 together with Paul Wegener in The Student of Prague. In the same year he made his debut as a film director with the black lot, a cinematic commedia dell'arte with the Reinhardt - actor Alexander Moissi in the lead role. In 1920 he was seen in works of Expressionist wave, as in Robert Wiene's Genuine and early science fiction film Algol. Tragedy of power. In 1920 he also played his biggest film role, the hunchback James Wilton in FW Murnau verschollenem The Hunchback and the Dancer. In 1921, he starred in Murnau's classic Nosferatu with.
In the summer of 1920 he took over together with his brother Henrik Galeen the management of the theater in the coming Dante street in Berlin, which was artistically very successful. With Galeen, the screenwriter of Nosferatu was Gottowt also worked on other film projects, such as the comedy The Forbidden Way, the Galeen with Lupu Pick staged Rex movie for his company.
1923 led Gottowt with Paul Leni, the cabaret, the gondola.
In 1933 he was assigned as a Jew with a prohibition. After some years in Denmark, he moved to Krakow. 1942 John Gottowt was murdered by an SS officer in Wieliczka.