Detlef Bothe (actor)

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Detlef Bothe
Born (1965-07-24) 24 July 1965 (age 58)
Occupation(s)Actor, director, producer
Years active1990–present

Detlef Bothe (born 24 July 1965) is a German actor, screenwriter, film director and producer.[1] Since the early 1990s, he has appeared in numerous film and television productions, both German and international. In 2015, he appeared in the James Bond film Spectre as a henchman, in a scene where he and Q (Ben Whishaw) are seen riding a cable car in the Austrian Alps.[2]

Bothe became a prominent on-screen representative of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich as he has portrayed Heydrich in three films pertaining to his assassination: the 2011 Czech film Lidice, the 2016 British film Anthropoid, and the 2020 Czech film Betrayer – as well as in 2005 in a BBC documentary series about the Holocaust titled Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'.[3] Bothe is often praised as "dead ringer" (twin) of Heydrich.[4]

Selected filmography[edit]

  • 1993: Tatort (TV Series) – Hubert
  • 1992: Der Knappe des Kreuzes
  • 1995: Brother of Sleep – Lukas
  • 1996: After Hours
  • 1996: Gegen den Wind (TV Series) – Eric
  • 1997: 14 Days to Life – Rudi
  • 1997: Ballermann 6 [de] – René
  • 1998: Balko (TV Series) – Richie Schwingbrodt
  • 1998: Appetite – Godfrey
  • 1999: Sara Amerika – Jim J.
  • 1999: Bang Boom Bang – Arne
  • 1999: After the Truth – Siebert
  • 1999: Schmetterlinge der Nacht – Killer's Helper
  • 2000: The Calling – Scouser
  • 2001: Himmlische Helden – Flex
  • 2001: A Goddamn Job – Orkton
  • 2001: 99euro-films – (segment "Ich schwöre") (segment "Loreley S.")
  • 2001: Sass [de] – Ede
  • 2002: Feiertag (also writer, director and producer) – Ingo
  • 2002: Vienna – Thomas
  • 2002: Extreme Ops – Ratko
  • 2003: Cologne's Finest 3 [de] (TV Movie) – Fliege
  • 2003: Baltic Storm – Victor Renko
  • 2003: Gone – Eine tödliche Leidenschaft – Mike
  • 2004: Abgefahren [de] – Matador
  • 2004: Vinzent – Vinzent / Olaf Podesch
  • 2004: Meine Frau, meine Freunde und ich (also writer, director and co-producer) – Richard Wippe
  • 2005: Speer und Er (TV Mini-Series)
  • 2005: Rose – Steve
  • 2006: Die Rosenheim-Cops (TV Series) – Konrad Rottmann
  • 2006: The Wild Soccer Bunch 3 [de] – Bodyguard Ö
  • 2006: FC Venus [de] – Louis Doderer
  • 2007: Tour Excess (also writer, director and co-producer) – Dieter
  • 2008: The Charlemagne Code [de] (TV Movie) – Richter
  • 2009: Mine [de] (also writer, director and co-producer) – Klaus
  • 2010: Snowman's Land – Harry
  • 2010: Alles Liebe (TV Movie) – Mann aus Plattenladen
  • 2010: Max Schmeling – Referee Arthur Donovan
  • 2010: Murder Is No Fairy Tale [de] (TV Movie) – Biedermeyer
  • 2011: Lidice – Reinhard Heydrich
  • 2011: Men in the City 2 [de] – Rocker
  • 2011: Anonymus – John De Vere
  • 2011: Pilgerfahrt nach Padua (TV Movie) – Mechaniker
  • 2012: Nemez [de] – Pfarrer
  • 2012: RommelCarl Oberg
  • 2012: Ludwig II – Bote
  • 2013: Tatort (TV Series) – Volker Zahn
  • 2013–2017: Hammer & Sichl (TV Series) – Apostolos
  • 2014: Into the Suite (also writer, director and producer) – Paul Heitmann
  • 2015: Ü 30 Paradiso (also writer, director and producer)
  • 2015: Spectre – henchman in Cable Car #1 (Austria)
  • 2016: Anthropoid – Reinhard Heydrich
  • 2017: Die Vierhändige – Klinger
  • 2020: Anatomie Zrady (Anatomy of Betrayal, Czech television film)- Reinhard Heydrich

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Detlef Bothe" (in German). filmportal.de. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Detlef Bothe Speaks". MI6-HQ.COM.
  3. ^ Nowak, Ricarda (20 November 2015). "Ein Mann in fieser Mission". MAZ-Online.de (in German). Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  4. ^ Pirodsky, Jason (8 June 2017). "Movie Review: The Butcher of Prague Gets His Due in 'The Man with the Iron Heart' (aka 'HHhH')". The Prague Reporter. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

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