J%C3%BCrgen Prochnow


Jrgen Prochnow bornJune 1941 is a German actor. His bestknown roles internationally have been as the sympathetic UBoat captain in Das Boot , Duke Leto Atreides in Dune , the minor but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One , and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II .

Prochnow was born in Berlin and brought up in Dsseldorf, the son of an engineer. He has an elder brother, Dieter. He studied acting at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Thanks to his onscreen intensity and his fluency in English, he has become one of the most successful German actors in Hollywood. He portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in a film about the actors political career in California, entitled See Arnold Run coincidentally, Prochnow was one of the actors considered for the title role in The Terminator. He also appears as the main antagonist in the Broken Lizard film Beerfest, which contains a submarine scene that references his role in Das Boot. He also played a supporting character in the Wing Commander film, Cmdr. Paul Gerald. In addition, he dubbed Sylvester Stallones voice in the German version of Rocky and Rocky II.

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