Jürgen Prochnow

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Jürgen Prochnow (June 10, 1941 in Berlin) is a German actor.

Thanks to his on-screen intensity and his fluency in English, he has become one of the most successful German actors in Hollywood. His most well-known roles internationally have been as submarine Captain Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in Das Boot (1981) and the villain Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II.

More recently, he played Arnold Schwarzenegger in a film about the Austrian actor's political career in California, entitled See Arnold Run. The film was directed by James B. Rogers, and also stars Mariel Hemingway as Maria Shriver.

Selected filmography

• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
• Das Boot (1981)
• The Keep (1983)
• Dune (1984)
• Forbidden (1984 film)
• Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
• The Seventh Sign (1988)
• A Dry White Season (1990)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
• Body of Evidence (1993)
• In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
• Judge Dredd (1995)
• The English Patient (1996)
• Air Force One (1997)
• The Replacement Killers (1998)
• Wing Commander (1999)
• House of the Dead (2002)
• See Arnold Run (2005) (TV)
• The Da Vinci Code (2006)

External links

• {{{2|{{{name|Jürgen Prochnow}}}}}} at The Internet Movie Database
• The Jurgen Prochnow Watchdog Society Fan Club
• IMDb entry for See Arnold Run (2005)Template:Germany-actor-stub

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