In 1926 he played the starring role in the Hitchcock movie The Mountain Eagle.
Because of the huge amount of important German film production in which Bernhard Goetzke took part in - all in head "Der müde Tod" - he went down in German film history.
During World War II he acted in "Bismarck" (1940)and in the propaganda movie "Jud Süss" (1940).
The actor Bernhard Goetzke appeared in some of the most important German silent movies.