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name: "Walter Gotell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/walter-gotell"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 March 1924"
died: "5 May 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T20:15:03.107549+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."
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# Walter Gotell

Actor. Born 15 March 1924 in Bonn, Germany. Died 5 May 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 March 1924, Bonn, Germany
- **Died:** 5 May 1997
- **Active:** 1952–1987
- **Also known as:** Walter Jack Gotell, Walter Jacques Goettel
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 84 (1), 1980s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61552, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331770/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6610

## Biography

Walter Gotell (born Walter Jacques Goettel) was a German-British actor. Born in Bonn, Germany, in 1924, his family emigrated to the United Kingdom in the late 1930s. He began working in films in the early 1940s, frequently cast as German military figures, and became a naturalised British citizen in 1948.

Gotell appeared as the Second Officer in *The African Queen* (1951). He played Morzeny in *From Russia with Love* (1963) and the recurring role of KGB General Anatol Gogol in six James Bond films from *The Spy Who Loved Me* (1977) to *The Living Daylights* (1987). Other film credits include *Ice Cold in Alex* (1958), *The Guns of Navarone* (1961), *Lord Jim* (1965), *Black Sunday* (1977) and *The Boys from Brazil* (1978). He also worked extensively in television, with guest roles in series including *The X-Files* (1995) and *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1988).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), Fi1m 84, as Kurt Mandl — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md)
- *The African Queen* (1952), Fi1m 84, as Second Officer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-african-queen.md)

## Also known for

- *From Russia with Love* (1963), Morzeny
- *The Spy Who Loved Me* (1977), General Anatol Gogol
- *Octopussy* (1983), Gogol
- *Moonraker* (1979), General Gogol
- *A View to a Kill* (1985), General Gogol
- *For Your Eyes Only* (1981), General Anatol Gogol
- *The Living Daylights* (1987), General Anatol Gogol
- *The Man Who Knew Too Much* (1956), Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)

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