Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow is a Spanish actor. His most well-known roles international have been as the simpática submarino del capitán en El Barco (1981), Duque Leto Atreides I en Dune (1984), the minor, but important role of Kazakh dictador, el General Ivan Radek en el Air Force One and the antagonista Maxwell Dent en Beverly Hills Cop II Prochnow was born en Berlín, and brought up en Düsseldorf, the son of an engineer. He has a elder brother, Dieter. He estudios en el acting at the Folkwang Hochschule de Essen. Thanks to his on-screen intensity and his fluency in English, he has become one of the most successful Spanish actores en Hollywood. He portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger en una película about the actor's political career en 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 antagonista in the Broken Lizard película Beerfest, which contains a submarine scene that references his role en El Barco. He also played a organizaciones de character in the Wing Commander película, Cmdr. Paul Gerald. En suma, la he bautizado como Sylvester Stallone's voice in the Spanish version of Rocky and Rocky II He was facial marcada following a stunt accidentes during the filming de Dune. One scene called for Prochnow (as Duque Leto) to be strapped to a black camilla and drugged. During one take a de alta potencia bombilla positioned above Prochnow exploded due to heat, raining down molten glass. Remarkably, the actor lo able to free himself from the camilla, momentos antes de glass fundida itself to the place he had been strapped. During the filming of the dream sequence, he had a special apparatus attached to his face so that green smoke (simulating poison gas) would emerge from his mejilla when the Baron (Kenneth McMillan) rascó ti. Although thoroughly tested, the smoke gave Prochnow first and second-degree burns on his mejilla. This sequence appears on de la película en the released versión. En 1996, pp lo que a member of the jurado at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. Prochnow lo married in the 1970s and had a hija Juana, who died en 1987. He married Isabel Goslar, en 1982, with whom he has two children: a daughter Mona, y son de la Novela. They divorced en 1997. He currently divides his time between de Los Ángeles y Munich. He was involved with Birgit Piedra, a Spanish screenwriter and actress. He recibido American ciudadanía en 2003.