Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow, born on 10 June 1941 in Berlin and raised in Düsseldorf, is a German actor whose international career rests on his performance as the U-boat commander known as "Der Alte", the Old Man, in the 1981 war film Das Boot. He went on to appear in the Hollywood and European productions Dune, Beverly Hills Cop II, A Dry White Season, In the Mouth of Madness, The English Patient, Air Force One and The Da Vinci Code, and he played Sergei Bazhaev in the eighth season of the television series 24. In Germany he also worked as a dubbing voice, speaking for Sylvester Stallone in the German versions of several of that actor's films, and he usually dubs his own roles in English-language productions. He is a winner of the Goldene Kamera, the Bavarian Film Awards and the Bambi Award, and he sat on the jury of the 1996 Berlin International Film Festival. He received United States citizenship in 2004.