---
name: "Gustav Botz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gustav-botz"
fi1m_id: "gustav-botz"
imdb_id: "nm0098774"
tmdb_id: 9846
wikidata_id: "Q114696"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 August 1883"
died: "29 September 1932"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:56:34.513848+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gustav Botz

## Identity

Gustav Botz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gustav-botz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gustav-botz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0098774
- **TMDB ID:** 9846
- **Wikidata ID:** Q114696
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Botz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114696, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098774/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9846

Actor. Born 4 August 1883 in Bremen, Germany. Died 29 September 1932.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 August 1883, Bremen, Germany
- **Died:** 29 September 1932
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Botz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114696, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098774/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9846

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Nosferatu*](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Gustav Botz was a German actor. He began his career in theatre, with his first engagement in Kaiserslautern in 1884, followed by work in Dresden, Koblenz, Basel and, from 1909, Berlin.

Botz entered film in 1914 and appeared in numerous silent productions. He is known for his role as Professor Sievers in F. W. Murnau's *Nosferatu* (1922) and an appearance in Fritz Lang's *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922). His last film was *Mein Leopold* (1924). He retired owing to an eye disease and died in 1932.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *Nosferatu* (1922), Fi1m 88, as Professor Sievers — [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922), Fi1m 77, as (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror* (2025), as Professor Sievers - der Stadtarzt
- *The Twelfth Hour* (1930), as City Doctor (Archive footage)
- *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922), as (uncredited) — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.md)
- *Nosferatu* (1922), as Professor Sievers — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)
- *Der Millionendieb* (1921), as Wirt
- *Catherine the Great* (1920), as Alexei Bestuzhev
- *The Head of Janus* (1920), as o. A.
- *Der Kampf der Geschlechter* (1920), Actor
- *Die Rose von Stambul* (1919), Actor
- *The Secret of the American Docks* (1919), as James Mistoll
- *Die Verführten* (1919), Actor
- *Ikarus, the Flying Man* (1918), as Günther's Father
- *The Discovery of Germany by the Martians* (1916), Actor
- *Der Schmuck der Herzogin* (1916), Actor
- *Der Barbier von Filmersdorf* (1915), Actor
- *Carl und Carla* (1915), Actor

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