Gustav Botz

Acting

Gustav Botz

Born — Died

1883-08-04 — 1932-09-29

Place of birth

Bremen, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Gustav Botz (4 August 1883 – 29 September 1932) was a German actor. Botz was born on 4 August 1883 in Bremen, German Empire. He began his career in film business The Foreign Prince (1918), The Devil (1918), His Majesty the Hypochondriac (1918), Ikarus, the Flying Man (1918), The Rose of Stamboul (1919), The Secret of the American Docks (1919), The Head of Janus (1920), Monika Vogelsang (1920), Battle of the Sexes (1920), Mary Magdalene (1920), Catherine the Great (1920), The Courier from Lisbon (1921), Peter Voss, Their of Millions (1921), The Eternal Struggle (1921), Lola Montez, the King's Dancer (1922), Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), Nosferatu (1922). His last film role was in 1924's My…

Known for

Nosferatu poster
7.7

The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.

Nosferatu

1922

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler poster
7.7

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Millionendieb

1921

Ikarus, the Flying Man poster
5.0

Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.

Ikarus, the Flying Man

1918

The Head of Janus poster
9.0

Two opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr. Warren and Janus. A lost film.

The Head of Janus

1920

No artwork available
NR

Aliens discover Germany.

The Discovery of Germany by the Martians

1916

Film credits

1920s · 6 titles

1910s · 8 titles