Detlef Bothe (actor)


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 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, the 2020 Czech film Betrayer and in 2005 BBC documentary series about holocaust Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'''. Bothe is often praised as "dead ringer" of Heydrich.

Selected filmography