Detlef Bothe
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Detlef Bothe is a German actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. Since the early 1990s, he has appeared in numerous film and television productions, both German and international. In 2015, he appeared in the James Bond film "Spectre" as a henchman, in a scene where he and Q (Ben Whishaw) are seen riding a cable car in the Austrian Alps.
Bothe became a prominent on-screen representative of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich as he has portrayed Heydrich in three films pertaining to his assassination: the 2011 Czech film "Lidice", the 2016 British film "Anthropoid", and the 2020 Czech film "Betrayer"; as well as in 2005 in a BBC documentary series about the Holocaust titled "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution". Bothe is often praised as "dead ringer" (twin) of Heydrich.
Bothe became a prominent on-screen representative of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich as he has portrayed Heydrich in three films pertaining to his assassination: the 2011 Czech film "Lidice", the 2016 British film "Anthropoid", and the 2020 Czech film "Betrayer"; as well as in 2005 in a BBC documentary series about the Holocaust titled "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution". Bothe is often praised as "dead ringer" (twin) of Heydrich.
