Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow
Prochnow at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, February 2009
Born	(1941-06-10) 10 June 1941 (age 75) Berlin, Germany
Residence	Los Angeles and Munich
Citizenship	Germany and United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1970–present
Spouse(s)	Married in the 1970s (1 daughter) Isabel Goslar (1982–1997) (divorced) 2 children Birgit Stein (2004–2014) (divorced)

Jürgen Prochnow (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏɐ̯ɡən ˈpʁɔχnoː]  listen ; born 10 June 1941) is a German-born American actor. His best-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic U-Boat captain in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides in Dune (1984), the minor but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One (1997), and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987).

Prochnow was born in Berlin and brought up in Düsseldorf, the son of an engineer. He studied acting at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Thanks to his on-screen 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 actor's political career in California, entitled See Arnold Run; coincidentally, Prochnow was one of the actors considered for the title role in The Terminator. He was the main antagonist in the Broken Lizard film Beerfest, which contains a submarine scene that references his role in Das Boot. He played a supporting character in the Wing Commander film, Cmdr. Paul Gerald. In addition, he dubbed Sylvester Stallone's voice in the German version of Rocky and Rocky II.