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A German actor known for his very tall stature. He is 196 cm (6 ft 6 inches) tall and is often characterised by bleached blonde hair in his films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Götz Otto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Emperor
2026
as Moritz 'The German Enforcer'
XVI Century. Action epic about young Johanna "Of Ghent", who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father. It happens...

Bad Director
2024
as Assistant Director
Director Gregor Samsa, washed-up and in his late fifties, is reviewing his life. Having wasted it as a cultural worker doesn't exactly add to his joy.

791 km
2023
as Prof. Piepenbrink
5 people of different personalities have to take a taxi from Munich to Hamburg, as the train service is canceled. The strangers discover that every on...

Das Märchen vom Frosch und der goldenen Kugel
2022
as König Theoderich
A fake prince is caught stealing a golden ball and banished to a magical forest, where a fairy inadvertently turns him into a frog. The enchantment ca...

Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe
2021
as Hessian angel
Death (in Bavarian: Boandlkramer) is supposed to get little Maxl, but he falls in love with Maxl's mother. Confused by the previously unknown feelings...

Adisa
2021

Divertimento
2020
as Klaus Kesler
Jonas Olsen, a chess player haunted by a tragic past, is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, Divertimento.

t=E/x²
2020
as Thadeus Moff
t=E/x² ("texsquare") tells the story of Merlin, an editor at a film production company finishing a documentary. He soon realises that he is stuck in a...

Enfant Terrible
2020
as Jack Palance
When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further a...

Crescendo
2020
as Bellmann
When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of shee...

Matze, Kebab und Sauerkraut
2020
as Götz Otto
Longtime friends Noah and Hakim fall in love with the same woman. Charlotte is a photographer from Bavaria, blonde, blue-eyed, German and Catholic. No...

Unter deutschen Betten
2017
as himself
After a disastrous performance and a philandering producer leave her publicly humiliated, a faltering pop star takes up work as a cleaning woman.

Godless Youth
2017
as Betreuer
German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.

Vesper
2017
as Walter
Marge asks her nephew Christian for help to protect herself against her sinister husband Walter. Christian will soon discover dark secrets and that Wa...

Neid ist auch keine Lösung
2016
as Hans Steiner
An invitation to an old childhood friend's 40th birthday throws the Baumgartners' hitherto happy life into disarray and makes them question their prev...

The Visitors: Bastille Day
2016
as Colonel Wurtz
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social u...

Fauler Zauber
2016
as Jiri

Prinzessin Maleen
2015
as Marschall Raimund
Princess Maleen loves Count Konrad, but her father, Lord Theodor, has other plans for her and locks her in a tower.
Krippenwahn
2015
as Herr Schmidtbauer
Helena has just started a new job - and she's already pregnant. She desperately needs daycare. Madness ensues as she discovers that the odds of gettin...

Punk Berlin 1982
2015
as Bodyguard
1980: 19 year old Robert, fed up with Hippy phoniness and bourgeoise narrow mindedness alike, flees the German provinces for West Berlin. A tour de fo...

Die drei Federn
2014
as Storyteller
On the advice of his chief counsel Julius, old Lord Gundolf offers the throne to whichever of his sons brings him the finest carpet. He blows three fe...
Outlier
2014
Cancer patient and successful writer Lilith Winterbottom should be dead by now. But the cynical misanthrope seems to scare even death away, in order t...

Beloved Sisters
2014
as Goethe
A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters -- one who became his wife, and the other, his biographer.
Sprung ins Leben
2014
as Janik Novotny
The diagnosis is a shock. Katharina refuses to accept that her 17-year-old son Basti will be in a wheelchair after a traffic accident. She tirelessly ...

Me, Myself and Mum
2013
as Raymund
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillau...

Legend No. 17
2013
as Canadian national team captain
Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

Wohin der Weg mich führt
2012
as Dr. Henning
Lawyer Sarah Stein has her life firmly under control and a clear goal for her career: to become a partner in the renowned Frankfurt law firm she works...

The Legacy of the Siren
2012
as König Sigismund
Michel must go to dangerous lengths to save his wife and newborn child from the intrigues of the king’s mistress in this historical drama.

Cloud Atlas
2012
as Groundsman Withers
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and con...

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
as Yadutaf
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.

The Artist and the Model
2012
as Werner
In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.

Iron Sky
2012
as Klaus Adler
In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter ...

The Revenge of the Siren
2012
as König Sigismund
In 1427, Lady Maria Van Arnstein is informed that her beloved husband Michel Van Arnstein was murdered in a battle against the Hussitas. However he wa...
Ten - Sin for Salvation
2011
as Bruno
A short directed by Stefan Hering.

Die Superbullen
2011
as Schorsch
Tommie and Mario are on the prowl again. But this time not through the alcohol haze of Cologne Kalk or the Ballermann Club on Mallorca but through the...

The Royal Siren
2010
as König Sigismund
Constance, 1410. Marie, daughter of the richest bourgeois of the city, is on the eve of marrying a prestigious lawyer, son of an earl. Although the co...

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
2010
as Geiserich
Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of ...

Betrayal
2009
as Major Krüger
A thriller based on true events in Norway during the WWII. Tor Lindblom makes a fortune supplying the Nazis with everything from liquor and cigarettes...
Bis an die Grenze
2009
as Berno Simmert
Berlin couple Eva and Peter are planning a trip to Bavaria with their children to visit Eva's parents. But there is trouble brewing behind the idyllic...

Nichts als Ärger mit den Männern
2009
as Bruno Toellner
The young musician Katharina keeps afloat after completing her studies with odd jobs over water. But then her grumpy father Hubert suffers a heart att...

U-900
2008
as Oberleutnant von Stetten
The year is 1944, Atze and Samuel occasionally operate on the black market, but mostly keep quiet and wait for the Americans to come. When the last Ge...

Ossi’s Eleven
2008
as Boris
Finally out again. The attempt to cheat his boss out of a truckload cost haulage driver Oswald a year of his life and his job. Now it's back home to t...

Für immer Afrika
2007
as Christian Lindenburg
Katrin and Sam practise together in a bush hospital in Namibia. Sam had been the best friend of Katrin's late husband. He feels more than just a colle...

Die Erntehelferin
2007
as Martin
After escaping from the Sudeten German Marienbad, Clara, together with her widowed brother-in-law Johann and his four children, is quartered in a smal...
Rettet die Weihnachtsgans
2006
as Alfred
When his favorite goose Henriette is to be slaughtered for Christmas, twelve-year-old Rudi Wasmeier does everything he can to save her.

Alien Autopsy
2006
as Laszlo Voros
Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

Urmel aus dem Eis
2005
as König Pumponell
There are incredible things on the South Sea island of Titiwu: Professor Habakuk Tibatong has taught some animals to speak. For example, the pig lady ...

The Tube
2005
as Roman Sikorski
This is the opportunity of a lifetime: Sabine Fink, a young, ambitious public prosecutor, is entrusted by Chief Public Prosecutor Grabowski with the s...
Stockflame
2005
as Niklas von Dhrei
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005
as Self
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'
Karl-May-Spiele: Winnetou und das Geheimnis der Felsenburg
2005
as Harry Melton

Grenzverkehr
2005
as Großer Smetana
When three teenage boys from Bavaria try to lose their innocence in the neighboring Czech Republic, they get themselves and a young pregnant Ukrainian...
Apollonia
2005
as Kaplan Johannes Ebner

Der Clown
2005
as Zorbek
Former secret government agent Max Hecker (Sven Martinek) disguises himself with a clown mask in order to fight international crime. He hangs up his m...

Ring of the Nibelungs
2004
as King Thorkwin
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a...

Downfall
2004
as SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Günsche
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr...

The Antman
2003
as Don José de Alvarez
“The Antman” is a lovingly-made but sluggish monster-movie parody, done with German-speaking actors on a sparse soundstage standing in for 1950s Mexic...
Family Affairs - Gier nach Glück
2002
as Dave

My Wife's Name Is Maurice
2002
as Johnny Zucchini
Georges, a wealthy Parisian, has a mistress who wants to marry him, but he has no intention of divorcing his wife, the source of his money. The mistre...

Mask Under Mask
2002
as Gomez
An adventurous, mystical story about Valdez de Corazón, Prince of San Vanidad, who is not only a very powerful man, but also a very beautiful one. To ...

Deep Freeze
2002
as Nelson
A deadly creature terrorizes a team of researchers at an isolated Antarctic laboratory.

The Shanghai Spell
2002
as Omar
A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old gi...

Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
2001
as Bait (uncredited)
When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringin...

Goebbels und Geduldig
2001
as Brenneisen
It is 1944 and Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels narrowly escapes an assassination attempt on the way to Obersalzberg. It is whispered to h...

Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
2001
as Boris
Terrorists hold a group of people hostage during a Millenium Eve party aboard the Orient Express. Only an action movie star and a gymnast can save the...

High Adventure
2001
as Sarkhan
Chris, slick adventurous grandson of legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain, searches for the mythical treasure of Alexander the Great with the help of...

Gunblast Vodka
2001
as Abel Rothstein
Supermodel Everhart is kidnapped by bad guy Prochnow and rescued by good guy Otto in technopop action.

She Who Must Be Obeyed
2001
as Attila
Leo Vincey receives a map from his late father, leading him to the legendary city of Kor in search of an explanation for his mysterious ancestry.

Der Weihnachtswolf
2000
as Regieassistent
After years of waiting for her big break, singer Amanda has finally achieved her goal: she is allowed to host a big TV show. Unfortunately, it's Chris...

Bear on the Run
2000
as silák
Thirteen-year-old Julia leaves Berlin, where she resides with her father, to spend vacation in the Czech Republic. While there she experiences first l...

Marlene
2000
as Gary Cooper
Marlene is a 2000 German biopic film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and starring Katja Flint, Hans Werner Meyer and Herbert Knaup. It follows the life o...

The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000
1999
as Dan Corpening
A convicted murderer holds the world hostage with a year 2000 virus in all the world's major computer systems.

Ein Weihnachtsmärchen – Wenn alle Herzen schmelzen
1999
as Tschak
Der Voyeur
1999
as Curt Rinneberg

Framed
1999
as Un infirmier

Der blonde Affe
1999
as Kommissar Philipp Graf
The wealthy Hamburg gallery owner Elaine Troost dies mysteriously on a stormy fall night and her body is subsequently found in the bathtub by her daug...

Beowulf
1999
as Roland
Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The O...

The Girl of Your Dreams
1998
as Heinrich von Wermelskirch
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to ari...

Earthquake in New York
1998
as Detective Eric Steadman
A cop is after a nasty serial killer. Cop's wife and kids are somewhere in the city too. Then a disastrous earthquake hits the city.

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Stamper
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas...

The Secrets of 007
1997
as Self
Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series.

Der Schutzengel
1997
as Kai
Dr. Maria Fender makes few friends at her new workplace with her motto “Rehabilitation instead of incarceration”. At the renowned clinic for the menta...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Irrwege des Herzens
1997
as Giles Savours
The story of two people who want to turn their backs on their past and the story of an old love that is reawakened...

Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart
1996
as Heinrich
On a mission of mercy, Jennifer Hart is in Germany to donate bone marrow to Maximilian, a young leukemia patient. Following the operation, she plans t...

Gridlock
1996
as Mr. Two
After explosions destroy all the bridges connecting Manhattan to the rest of New York, the authorities attribute the disaster to a terrorist organizat...

It's a Jungle Out There
1995
as Türsteher
Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that they leave a big cha...

Over My Dead Body
1995
as Zuhälter 1
A cynical and ruthless womanizer dies, but is given the chance to return to life if he manages to save three women within three days, whom he has depr...
Lauras Entscheidung
1994

Schindler's List
1993
as Plaszow SS Guard
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during ...

Hochwürden erbt das Paradies
1993
as Matthias' Friend
A village pastor and a tourism entrepreneur come into conflict over building land on which the pastor wants to build a youth center and the entreprene...
Dann eben mit Gewalt
1993

Little Sharks
1992
as Body
When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the a...

North Pole
N/A
This is a film in the dramatic and adventure genre based on historical and real events — namely an expedition to the North Pole on the airship “”Italy...