---
name: "John Gottowt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-gottowt"
fi1m_id: "john-gottowt"
imdb_id: "nm0332024"
tmdb_id: 9845
wikidata_id: "Q87468"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 June 1881"
died: "29 August 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:56:33.961019+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."
---

# John Gottowt

## Identity

John Gottowt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-gottowt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-gottowt
- **IMDb ID:** nm0332024
- **TMDB ID:** 9845
- **Wikidata ID:** Q87468
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottowt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87468, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332024/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9845

Actor. Born 15 June 1881 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. Died 29 August 1942.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 June 1881, Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
- **Died:** 29 August 1942
- **Also known as:** Isidor Gesang
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottowt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87468, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332024/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9845

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

John Gottowt, born Isidor Gesang, was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director active in theatre and silent cinema.

After training in Vienna he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1905, working with Max Reinhardt. He appeared in numerous films, including *The Student of Prague* (1913) as Scapinelli, *Genuine* (1920), *Algol* (1920) and *Waxworks* (1924). He played Professor Bulwer in F. W. Murnau’s *Nosferatu* (1922).

As a Jew he was banned from professional work in 1933. After time in Denmark he moved to Poland, where he was murdered by an SS officer in Wieliczka in 1942 while in hiding.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (19)

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 Bulwer - ein Paracelsianer
- *The Living Dead* (1932), as Beamter des Mechanischen Museums
- *The Twelfth Hour* (1930), as Sanitarium Doctor (Archive footage)
- *The Flight in the Night* (1926), as Bediensteter
- *Waxworks* (1924), as Owner of the Waxworks
- *Der schwarze Stern* (1922), Actor
- *Nosferatu* (1922), as Professor Bulwer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)
- *Parisian Women* (1921), as Aristide
- *Brennendes Land* (1921), as Wladislaus
- *The Night of Queen Isabeau* (1920), as Buckliger Narr
- *Algol: Tragedy of Power* (1920), as Algol
- *Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire* (1920), as Guyard
- *The Hunchback and the Dancer* (1920), as James Wilton
- *Der rote Henker* (1920), as L'Angely
- *Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend* (1919), Actor
- *Morphium* (1919), Actor
- *Die Prinzessin von Neutralien* (1917), as The billionaire Vandergold
- *Das schwarze Los* (1913), as Brighella · Director
- *The Student of Prague* (1913), as Scapinelli - An Old Adventurer

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