Gojko Mitić
Acting
1940-06-13 (86 years old)
Strojkovce near Leskovac, Morava Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Gojko Mitić (was born June 13, 1940, in Strojkovce near Leskovac, Morava Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Serbian director, actor, stuntman, and author. He lives in Berlin.
He is known for a numerous series of Red Westerns from the GDR DEFA Studios, featuring Native Americans as the heroes, rather than white settlers as in John Ford's Westerns. Beginning with The Sons of Great Bear (1966), Mitić starred in 12 films of this type between 1966 and 1984. He contributed to the popular image of Native Americans in German-speaking countries.
In an attempt to move away from his fame based on these Westerns, Mitić in his later career increasingly sought to appear in other genres, on film, on television, and on stage. Among other roles, he played Spartacus on stage and presented several TV shows.
He also played Karl May's Winnetou in seasons at the "Karl-May-Festspiele" until 2006 in Bad Segeberg near Hamburg, Germany. In one episode he played a role at the German television program, Schloss Einstein.
Bulgarian punk rock & ska group Hipodil composed a song, Bate Goiko, dedicated to Gojko Mitić. In 2010, he received the Brothers Karić Award in Serbia.
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After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region...
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway ...
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes a...
Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but...
Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey...
Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand ...
Chingachgook, a Mohawk-born Delaware warrior, strives to rescue his wife Wahtawah from the...
After oversleeping yet again, Alfons manages to catch the bus to his class trip to the Bal...
The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to Ameri...