Jürgen Prochnow

Prochnow worked across voice actor, stage actor, film actor, musician and television actor and 1 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 4 catalogued compositions, 5 issued recordings and 2 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Jürgen Prochnow • Born — 10 June 1941 • Birthplace — Berlin, Germany • Citizenship — * Germany • United States (since 2004) • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1963–present • Partner — Antonia Reininghaus (1978–1981) • Children — 3 • Illustration — Prochnow in 2012 • Illustration — Prochnow in 2018

Prochnow was born on 10 June 1941 in Berlin in Germany. He was brought up in Düsseldorf. His father was an engineer.

Prochnow portrayed the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" ("Old Man") in the 1981 war film Das Boot. He starred in the World War II drama Forbidden (1985), which earned a German Film Award nomination for Outstanding Feature Film. He had a significant supporting role in The Seventh Sign (1988). Prochnow portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in See Arnold Run, a 2005 film about the actor's political career in California. He played Commander Paul Gerald in Wing Commander (1999). He was the main antagonist in the Broken Lizard film, Beerfest (2006). Prochnow dubbed Sylvester Stallone's voice in the German version of Rocky (1976) and Rocky II (1979), as well as F.I.S.T and Paradise Alley (both 1978). He later acted alongside Stallone in the 1995 movie Judge Dredd. After the retirement of Stallone's long-time voice actor Thomas Danneberg, Prochnow assumed this job in 2018 with Creed II. He usually also dubs his own roles in English-language productions. Prochnow and his older brother, Dieter Prochnow appeared in The Man Inside (1990), in which Jürgen played the leading role and Dieter a supporting role. In 1996, he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.

In the early 1980s, Prochnow was in a relationship with Austrian actress Antonia Reininghaus, who fatally poisoned their 7-year-old daughter, Johanna, in 1987. In 1982, he married actor Jürgen Goslar's daughter, Isabel Goslar, with whom he has two children: a daughter, Mona, and a son, Roman. The couple divorced in 1997. From 2004 until the divorce in 2014, he was married to Birgit Stein, a German actress and screenwriter. Stein died in August 2018 in a motorcycle accident in Kanab, Utah. Since 2015, he has been married to actress Verena Wengler. Prochnow used to divide his time between Los Angeles and Munich. He received U.S. citizenship in 2004. In 2017, he announced that he had sold his house in Brentwood, Los Angeles, and would be moving to Berlin.

• Year — Title — Role • 1972 — Shot on Command – The Sass Brothers, Once Berlin's Big Crooks — Franz Sass • 1973 — Tatort: Jagdrevier — Dieter Brodschella • 1976 — Hans im Glück (film) — Hans Schmidtke • 1977 — Tatort: Das Mädchen von gegenüber — Klaus Linder • 1983 — Love Is Forever — General Siegfried Kaplan • 1992 — Jewels — Joachim von Mannheim • 1993 — The Fire Next Time — Larry Richter • 1993 — Evelyn Hamanns Geschichten aus dem Leben • 1994 — Lie Down with Lions — Marteau • 1994 — Guns of Honor — Jack Neumann • 1994 — Aventures dans le Grand Nord — Simon McQuarie • 1995 — Tödliche Wahl — Alex Bronner • 1995 — Fesseln — Guenther • 1996 — Sorellina e il principe del sogno — Kurdok • 1996 — On Dangerous Ground — Carl Morgan • 1996 — The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century — Kaiser Wilhelm II • 1997 — The Cry of Love (film) — Holger • 1998 — The Human Bomb — Gerhardt Dach • 1999 — Esther — Haman • 1999 — The Blond Baboon — Jan Vleuten • 1999 — Heaven's Fire — Quentin Darby • 2000 — Poison (2000 film) — Carl Krieger • 2000 — Padre Pio: Miracle Man — Visitatore / The Inquisitor • 2000 — Final Ascent — Paul • 2002 — Davon stirbt man nicht — Everett Burns • 2004 — Julie, chevalier de Maupin — Baron de Hengen • 2005 — See Arnold Run — Arnold Schwarzenegger • 2007 — Ohne einander — Ernest • 2007 — Ein Fall für zwei — KHK Max Gerber • 2010 — 24 (2010) — Sergei Bazhaev • 2010 — Spear of Destiny (film) — Baron von Hahn • 2010 — Tatort: Schlafende Hunde — Hans Rodenburg • 2010 — Amigo (Lars Becker film) — Fredo Kovacs • 2010-2014 — NCIS: Los Angeles — Mattias Draeger • 2010 — Nachtschicht — Friedrich Otto Winterstein • 2012 — Luck — Racetrack Owner • 2016 — Tatort: Borowski und das verlorene Mädchen — Kesting • 2017 — Dengler (TV series) — Dr. Schweikert • 2018 — Lore — Andreas Gruber

• Year — Title — Role • 1996 — Privateer 2: The Darkening (video game) — Xavier Shondi • 2008 — Dark Sector (video game) — Yargo Mensik (voice) • 2008 — Hellboy: The Science of Evil (video game) — Herman von Klempt (voice)

• 2008: Frank Herbert: Dune: Der Wüstenplanet (together with Simon Jäger and Marianne Rosenberg), publisher: Lübbe Audio, • 2013: Andreas Eschbach: Quantenmüll, publisher: Lübbe Audio (Audible) • 2017: Andreas Eschbach: Eine unberührte Welt (together with Simon Jäger, Yara Blümel and Nicole Engeln), publisher: Lübbe Audio,

Jürgen Prochnow was born on 10 June 1941 in Berlin. Prochnow held the nationality of United States and Germany. Prochnow was educated at Folkwang University of the Arts. Married to: Verena Wengler, Birgit Stein and Isabel Goslar. Recorded partner: Antonia Reininghaus. Recorded sibling: Dieter Prochnow. Prochnow worked as voice actor, stage actor, film actor and musician, and the authority record catalogues a further 2 occupations under the same name, among them television actor and actor. Prochnow was active from 1970. Prochnow worked in German.