General Ourumov (Gottfried John)
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Datastream
Actor: Gottfried John
Character: General Ourumov
Movie: GoldenEye
Date of Birth: 29 August 1942
Height: 6' 3½" (1.92 m)
Appearance: Tall and slender with neat silver-grey hair, aged facial features, low cheekbones and dark brown eyes
Status: Terminated
Organisations & Alliances: Russian Army, Janus Crime Syndicate, Alec
Trevelyan, Xenia Onatopp
Profile
Double-crossing Russian General Ourumov is head of
the Space Division for the Russian Army. Although he has
had some close calls, his identity as a senior member of
the Janus Crime Syndicate has never been suspected by the
Russian authorities. In a time when Russia is struggling
to regain power and respect on an international stage, Ourumov
betrays the nation and hands its most powerful weapon
over to the rogue Trevelyan.
"Use the bumper - that's what it's for..."
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Personality
Both cunning and deceitful, Ourumov has little time for the excess
bureaucracy of the Russian security council and the painstaking
meetings he must endure as a department head. Instead the General
is engulfed by a superiority complex and is constantly scheming
to make a vicious attack on the UK and with it, hopes for glory
- failing that, immense financial gain.
Involvement
Ourumov works with assassin Xenia Onatopp to capture the high-tech French navy Tiger
helicopter. The stealth chopper is then taken to the remote outpost that
manages the "GoldenEye" project.
Ourumov arrives at Severnaya under the
pretense of inspecting the facility, but Xenia mercilessly
dispatches
of the entire team of programmers and astrologers.
Ourumov is put in control of the investigation
of the Severnaya
incident,
and transfers the blame by convincing the government that the
disaster was a terrorist action by Siberian separatists.
When
Russian Minister
of Defense, Dimitri Mishkin, gets
wind of the generals crimes of treason and the existence
of a second GoldenEye satellite, Mishkin attempts to
put a stop to Ourumov's rampage but in turn
becomes
a casualty of the General's scheme.
After taking Natalya Simonova hostage
to escape both Bond and
the Russians, Ourumov is killed by Bond in a tense stand-off
on Trevelyan's train.
"This is Colonel
Ourumov. Come out with your hands above your head." |
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Biography
Born in Berlin in 1942, Gottfried John has an impressive career,
including on screen credits stemming back to 1962. The majority
of his work has been in German-speaking productions, notably "Berlin Alexanderplatz" -
a fifteen episode epic miniseries which found international
acclaim.
"Defence Minister Dimitri Mishkin...
murdered by British agent James Bond... Himself, shot while
he was trying to escape. Guards!"
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In 1981 he appeared in the German film, "Lili Marleen", which starred Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini (who would go on to perform the role of Fleming's Mathis in both "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace").
John made a break into the UK market with productions
such as "Game, Set, and Match" in 1988, in which Ian
Holm starred in a series of adaptations of Len Deighton's writing.
He gained international recognition for his role in "GoldenEye",
the 17th James Bond film, before appearing in the TV series "Millennium" and
the Gérard Depardieu starrer "Balzac" (1999).
More recently he has picked up a few roles in Hollywood, including
that of Eric Kessler in "Proof of Life" (2000) and "Flood" (2007),
where John played opposite David Suchet and fellow Bond villain Robert
Carlyle.
