Herbert Knaup

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

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.

Acting

1998

Run Lola Run

as Father

2003

2006

The Lives of Others

as Gregor Hessenstein

1998

Fever

as Doermer

2003

Anatomy 2

as Professor Müller-LaRousse

2004

Agnes and His Brothers

as Werner Tschirner

1996

2000

Marlene

as Rudolf Sieber

1994

The Invincibles

as Karl Simon

2007

You're Not Alone

as Kurt Wellinek

1997

Die Musterknaben

as Kamphausen

1995

Brother of Sleep

as Cantor Goller

2007

Späte Aussicht

as Peter Frei

2007

Fürchte dich nicht

as Ralf Bischof

2006

Der Untergang der Pamir

as Ludwig Lewerenz

2007

Special Escort

as Giselher

2010

Eichmanns Ende

as Adolf Eichmann

1999

Framed

as Un infirmier

2010

Bon Appétit

as Thomas

2009

2011

Hotel Desire

as Hotel Manager

2011

Arschkalt

as Rainer Berg

2007

Day of Disaster

as Martin Feldmann

2009

Erntedank

as Kommissar A. I. Kluftinger

2008

Augenzeugin

as Alexander Kant

2012

Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi

as Kommisar Kluftinger

2012

Homecoming

as Bürgermeister

2002

Harte Brötchen

as Jörg Erdmann

2012

Clarissas Geheimnis

as Konstantin

1997

Sanfte Morde

as Dr. Plath

1995

Magic Girl

as Horst Antz

2012

Mittlere Reife

as Oliver Seifert

2013

The Little Ghost

as Uhrmachermeister Zifferle

1999

Die Braut

as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2010

Jerry Cotton

as Mr. High

2003

Angst

as Wolfgang

2003

Annas Heimkehr

as Toni Schweighofer

2012

Die Aufnahmeprüfung

as Ferdinand Meissner

2004

2009

Beyond the Wall

as Frank Pramann

2012

Komm, schöner Tod

as Jens Kurzhals

2008

2014

Male Mistakes

as Georg Trautmann

2005

Margarete Steiff

as Vater Steiff

2011

2013

Hafen der Düfte

as Peter Philips

2008

Mogadischu

as Ulrich Wegener

2011

Pilgerfahrt nach Padua

as Benno Fischer

2012

The Guardians

as Henri Brietner

1989

Waller's Last Trip

as Waller (jung)

2002

2006

In the Name of Love

as Herr Novak

1994

Unschuldsengel

as Paul Hansen

2005

2009

Liebe und andere Gefahren

as Thomas 'Tom' Sellier

2014

Landauer

as Sigi Hermann

1995

Mit verbundenen Augen

as Alex Ziegler

2022

Dear Kurt

as Mahlow

2014

Lucky Child

as Hans Scholz

1998

2011

2000

2014

Die Zeit mit Euch

as Heiko Hartung

2012

Move

as Dinas Vater

2022

2015

Meister des Todes

as Moritz Hollstein

1995

2009

This Is Love

as Dominik

1996

Kriegsbilder

as Jan Loy

2015

600 PS für zwei

as Lorenz Hoffmann

2002

Therapie und Praxis

as Bernhard Meier

2004

Der letzte Flug

as Hauptmann Kant

2004

Der Auftrag

as Debussion

2016

2003

Hamlet_X

as Laertes

2003

Ganz und gar

as Manfred

2003

Der Herr der Wüste

as Richard Bucher

1999

Ne günstige Gelegenheit

as Lorenz Kellermann

2016

Der Bankraub

as von Kamphausen

2017

Toter Winkel

as Karl Holzer

2008

Der große Tom

as Dr. Heinrich Werhahn

2016

The Last Pig

as Narrator (voice)

2001

2014

Wildwechsel

as Christoph

1999

Jimmy the Kid

as Dortmunder

2006

Die Ohrfeige

as Friedrich Gelmini

2018

Crossroads

as Heiner Witt

2009

2018

2018

2003

Ins Leben zurück

as Martin Lorenz

2001

Anna's Summer

as Max Feldmann

2019

Stenzels Bescherung

as Volkmar Stenzel

2007

15 Minuten Wahrheit

as Georg Komann

2011

In Darkness

as Ignacy Chiger

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