
John Gottowt (born Isidor Gesang; 15 June 1881 – 29 August 1942) was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies.
Gottowt was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. After his education in Vienna, he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1905, working for Max Reinhardt as an actor and director. Gottowt was mainly active in different theatres in Berlin as a character actor and director.
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as Professor Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer

as Beamter des Mechanischen Museums

as Sanitarium Doctor (Archive footage)

as Bediensteter
as Owner of the Waxworks
as Professor Bulwer

as Aristide
as Wladislaus
as Buckliger Narr
as Algol


as The billionaire Vandergold

as Brighella
as Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer
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