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Jürgen Prochnow is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic submarine captain in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides I in Dune (1984), the minor, but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II. Prochnow was born in Berlin and brought up in Düsseldorf, the son of an engineer. He has an elder brother, Dieter. He studied acting at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Thanks to his on-screen intensity and his fluency in English, he has become one of the most successful German actors in Hollywood. He portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in a film about the actor's political career in California, entitled See Arnold Run; coincidentally, Prochnow was one of the actors considered for the title role in The Terminator. He also appears as the main antagonist in the Broken Lizard film Beerfest, which contains a submarine scene that references his role in Das Boot
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Jürgen Prochnow
Born 1941-06-10 (82 years ago) in Berlin, Germany.
Height 183 centimeters.
Award | Year |
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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (The English Patient) | 1997 |
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Birgit Stein(Gifta: 2004-07-21–2013) |
Isabel Goslar(Gifta: 1982–1997) |
Johanna Prochnow, Roman Prochnow, Mona Prochnow
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