Gottfried Kolditz (14 December 1922 – 15 June 1982[1]) was a German movie actor and director.
In the early 1950s he worked as an actor and director at various theaters in East Germany.
After 1955 he worked at DEFA, the East German film studio, in a wide range of genres: fairy tales ("Ms. Blizzard," from the story of the same name by the Brothers Grimm), adventure films, musicals, and science fiction ("Signals" and "B dust of stars" on themes similar to 2001: A Space Odyssey).
He was widely acclaimed for his Red Westerns with actor Gojko Mitić: "Next Falcon", "Apache" and "Ulzana."
He died in 1982 in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia[1] while preparing the shooting of a new film from his script, "Chief White Feather," which was later completed by another director.