Detlef Bothe (actor)

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{{short description|German actor and filmmaker}}

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| name = Detlef Bothe

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|07|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Braunschweig, West Germany{{cite web|title=Detlef Bothe|url=http://www.filmportal.de/person/detlef-bothe_6dcb21f999fc49d5b8a1fed4b3333f96|publisher=filmportal.de|language=German|accessdate=24 October 2015|archive-date=13 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113081258/http://www.filmportal.de/person/detlef-bothe_6dcb21f999fc49d5b8a1fed4b3333f96|url-status=live}}

| yearsactive = 1990–present

| occupation = Actor, director, producer

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Detlef Bothe (born 24 July 1965) 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond-24-report-010315-detlef-bothe-interview?t=&s=mi6_update&id=03859|title=Detlef Bothe Speaks|work=MI6-HQ.COM|access-date=22 December 2015|archive-date=29 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029173448/https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond-24-report-010315-detlef-bothe-interview?t=&s=mi6_update&id=03859|url-status=live}}

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'.{{cite news|last1=Nowak|first1=Ricarda|title=Ein Mann in fieser Mission|url=http://www.maz-online.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Ein-Mann-in-fieser-Mission|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120223735/http://www.maz-online.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Ein-Mann-in-fieser-Mission|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 November 2015|accessdate=6 March 2018|work=MAZ-Online.de|publisher=Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung|date=20 November 2015|language=German}} Bothe is often praised as "dead ringer" (twin) of Heydrich.{{cite web|last1=Pirodsky|first1=Jason|title=Movie Review: The Butcher of Prague Gets His Due in 'The Man with the Iron Heart' (aka 'HHhH')|url=https://www.praguereporter.com/home/2017/6/8/movie-review-the-butcher-of-prague-gets-his-due-in-the-man-with-the-iron-heart-aka-hhhh|website=The Prague Reporter|date=8 June 2017|accessdate=16 July 2017|archive-date=22 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722022042/https://www.praguereporter.com/home/2017/6/8/movie-review-the-butcher-of-prague-gets-his-due-in-the-man-with-the-iron-heart-aka-hhhh|url-status=live}}