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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-03-23 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Sonthofen, Germany

Herbert Knaup

Biography:

Herbert Knaup is a German film and television actor. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his supporting roles in Run Lola Run and The Lives of Others. Longtime companion of actress Natalia Wörner until 2001. Supports the SOS Children's Villages.

Started a career as musician with his two nephews in their band "Neffen und Knaup" (Nephews and Knaup) (2007). Founding member of the German Screen Actors Guild. After graduating from the Otto Falckenberg School, the Academy of Performing Arts in Munich, he made his stage debut in 1978.

Known For

Acting

2025

2024

2023

Jokah & Tutty as Galvin der Weise
Hotel Barcelona as Viktor Hansen

2022

Dear Kurt as Mahlow

2021

Blackout: Tomorrow Is Too Late as Reinhard Severin

2020

Da is’ ja nix as Dr. Bruns

2019

Stenzels Bescherung as Volkmar Stenzel

2018

Crossroads as Heiner Witt

2017

Toter Winkel as Karl Holzer
Die Puppenspieler as Jakob Fugger

2016

Der Bankraub as von Kamphausen
The Last Pig as Narrator (voice)

2015

Meister des Todes as Moritz Hollstein
600 PS für zwei as Lorenz Hoffmann
Die Kanzlei as Markus Gellert

2014

Male Mistakes as Georg Trautmann
Landauer as Sigi Hermann
Lucky Child as Hans Scholz
Die Zeit mit Euch as Heiko Hartung
Wildwechsel as Christoph
Helen Dorn as Hans Thomsen
Sarah Kohr as Anton Mehringer

2013

The Little Ghost as Uhrmachermeister Zifferle
Hafen der Düfte as Peter Philips

2012

Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi as Kommisar Kluftinger
Homecoming as Bürgermeister
Clarissas Geheimnis as Konstantin
Mittlere Reife as Oliver Seifert
Die Aufnahmeprüfung as Ferdinand Meissner
Komm, schöner Tod as Jens Kurzhals
The Guardians as Henri Brietner
Move as Dinas Vater

2011

Hotel Desire as Hotel Manager
Arschkalt as Rainer Berg
Flesh and Blood as Bogdan
Pilgerfahrt nach Padua as Benno Fischer
In Darkness as Ignacy Chiger

2010

Eichmanns Ende as Adolf Eichmann
Bon Appétit as Thomas
Jerry Cotton as Mr. High

2009

Erntedank as Kommissar A. I. Kluftinger
Beyond the Wall as Frank Pramann
Liebe und andere Gefahren as Thomas 'Tom' Sellier
This Is Love as Dominik
Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben! as Dr. Franz Reinhard
Sisi as duke Max of Bavaria (Sisi's father)

2008

Augenzeugin as Alexander Kant
Mogadischu as Ulrich Wegener
Der große Tom as Dr. Heinrich Werhahn

2007

You're Not Alone as Kurt Wellinek
Fürchte dich nicht as Ralf Bischof
Späte Aussicht as Peter Frei
Special Escort as Giselher
Day of Disaster as Martin Feldmann
15 Minuten Wahrheit as Georg Komann
Nachtlinie as Self
Inas Nacht as Self

2006

The Lives of Others as Gregor Hessenstein
Der Untergang der Pamir as Ludwig Lewerenz
In the Name of Love as Herr Novak
Die Ohrfeige as Friedrich Gelmini
Kommissar Stolberg as Carl Reese

2005

Margarete Steiff as Vater Steiff
Kanzleramt as Regierungssprecher
Thadeusz as self

2004

Agnes and His Brothers as Werner Tschirner
Rock Crystal as Paul
Der letzte Flug as Hauptmann Kant
Der Auftrag as Debussion

2003

Anatomy 2 as Professor Müller-LaRousse
Angst as Wolfgang
Annas Heimkehr as Toni Schweighofer
Hamlet_X as Laertes
Ganz und gar as Manfred
Der Herr der Wüste as Richard Bucher
Ins Leben zurück as Martin Lorenz
Kommissarin Lucas as Klaus Merdinger

2002

Harte Brötchen as Jörg Erdmann
Therapie und Praxis as Bernhard Meier
Blond: Eva Blond! as Richard Vester
Under Suspicion as Georg Zechner

2001

Anna's Summer as Max Feldmann

2000

Marlene as Rudolf Sieber
Nuremberg as Albert Speer

1999

Framed as Un infirmier
Die Braut as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ne günstige Gelegenheit as Lorenz Kellermann
Jimmy the Kid as Dortmunder
Volle Kanne as Self

1998

Run Lola Run as Father
Fever as Doermer
Zur Zeit zu zweit as Jan Wolf
Der letzte Zeuge as Alex Leidhoff
Der letzte Zeuge as Karl Kromberg
Die Unbestechliche as Rolf Clausnitzer
T.E.A.M. Berlin as Robert Berger

1997

Die Musterknaben as Kamphausen
Sanfte Morde as Dr. Plath
Leute heute as Self
Die Gang as Francis Miller

1996

Kriegsbilder as Jan Loy
Zimmer frei! as Self

1995

Brother of Sleep as Cantor Goller
Magic Girl as Horst Antz
Mit verbundenen Augen as Alex Ziegler

1994

The Invincibles as Karl Simon
Unschuldsengel as Paul Hansen
Doppelter Einsatz as Klaus Brandstein
Alles außer Mord as Alexander Mehring
Faust as Uwe Eichmeier

1993

Bella Block as Pfarrer Daniel

1992

1991

DAS! as Self

1989

Waller's Last Trip as Waller (jung)

1984

Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self - Laudatio

1979

1976

1971

Polizeiruf 110 as Prof. Henner Gottsched
Polizeiruf 110 as Hermann Denninger

1970

Scene of the Crime as Bernhard 'Carlos' von Fiedler
Scene of the Crime as Andreas Franke
Scene of the Crime as Günther Kowatsch

1951

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