Portrait of Herbert Knaup

Herbert Knaup

Acting

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.

Born: March 23, 1956

Place of Birth: Sonthofen, Germany

Filmography

2023
Jokah & Tutty

as Galvin der Weise

2023
Hotel Barcelona

as Viktor Hansen

2022
2022
Dear Kurt

as Mahlow

2021
2020
Da is’ ja nix

as Dr. Bruns

2019
Stenzels Bescherung

as Volkmar Stenzel

2018
2018
Crossroads

as Heiner Witt

2018
2017
Die Puppenspieler

as Jakob Fugger

2017
Toter Winkel

as Karl Holzer

2016
The Last Pig

as Narrator (voice)

2016
Der Bankraub

as von Kamphausen

2016
2015
600 PS für zwei

as Lorenz Hoffmann

2015
Die Kanzlei

as Markus Gellert

2015
Meister des Todes

as Moritz Hollstein

2014
Lucky Child

as Hans Scholz

2014
Landauer

as Sigi Hermann

2014
Male Mistakes

as Georg Trautmann

2014
Wildwechsel

as Christoph

2014
Helen Dorn

as Hans Thomsen

2014
Sarah Kohr

as Anton Mehringer

2014
Die Zeit mit Euch

as Heiko Hartung

2013
Hafen der Düfte

as Peter Philips

2013
The Little Ghost

as Uhrmachermeister Zifferle

2012
Die Aufnahmeprüfung

as Ferdinand Meissner

2012
Move

as Dinas Vater

2012
Clarissas Geheimnis

as Konstantin

2012
The Guardians

as Henri Brietner

2012
Mittlere Reife

as Oliver Seifert

2012
Homecoming

as Bürgermeister

2012
Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi

as Kommisar Kluftinger

2012
Komm, schöner Tod

as Jens Kurzhals

2011
Hotel Desire

as Hotel Manager

2011
Pilgerfahrt nach Padua

as Benno Fischer

2011
In Darkness

as Ignacy Chiger

2011
2011
Arschkalt

as Rainer Berg

2011
2010
Bon Appétit

as Thomas

2010
Eichmanns Ende

as Adolf Eichmann

2010
Jerry Cotton

as Mr. High

2009
Sisi

as duke Max of Bavaria (Sisi's father)

2009
Beyond the Wall

as Frank Pramann

2009
Erntedank - Ein Allgäu-Krimi

as Kommissar A. I. Kluftinger

2009
This Is Love

as Dominik

2009
2009
2008
Mogadischu

as Ulrich Wegener

2008
2008
Augenzeugin

as Alexander Kant

2007
Späte Aussicht

as Peter Frei

2007
Nachtlinie

as Self

2007
Special Escort

as Giselher

2007
Day of Disaster

as Martin Feldmann

2007
You're Not Alone

as Kurt Wellinek

2007
Inas Nacht

as Self

2007
Fürchte dich nicht

as Ralf Bischof

2007
15 Minuten Wahrheit

as Georg Komann

2006
Kommissar Stolberg

as Carl Reese

2006
Der Untergang der Pamir

as Ludwig Lewerenz

2006
The Lives of Others

as Gregor Hessenstein

2005
Margarete Steiff

as Vater Steiff

2005
Kanzleramt

as Regierungssprecher

2004
2004
Agnes and His Brothers

as Werner Tschirner

2003
Anatomy 2

as Professor Müller-LaRousse

2003
Hamlet_X

as Laertes

2003
Kommissarin Lucas

as Klaus Merdinger

2003
Angst

as Wolfgang

2003
2003
Ganz und gar

as Manfred

2002
2002
Under Suspicion

as Georg Zechner

2002
Therapie und Praxis

as Bernhard Meier

2001
Anna's Summer

as Max Feldmann

2000
Nuremberg

as Albert Speer

2000
Marlene

as Rudolf Sieber

1999
A Good Opportunity

as Lorenz Kellermann

1999
Framed

as Un infirmier

1999
1999
Die Braut

as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1999
Jimmy the Kid

as Dortmunder

1998
Fever

as Doermer

1998
Run Lola Run

as Father

1998
Der letzte Zeuge

as Karl Kromberg

1998
Der letzte Zeuge

as Alex Leidhoff

1997
Die Musterknaben

as Kamphausen

1996
Kriegsbilder

as Jan Loy

1996
1996
1995
Magic Girl

as Horst Antz

1995
Brother of Sleep

as Cantor Goller

1994
1994
The Invincibles

as Karl Simon

1994
Doppelter Einsatz

as Klaus Brandstein

1994
Alles außer Mord

as Alexander Mehring

1993
Bella Block

as Pfarrer Daniel

1991
DAS!

as Self

1989
Waller's Last Trip

as Waller (jung)

1979
1976
1971
Polizeiruf 110

as Prof. Henner Gottsched

1971
Polizeiruf 110

as Hermann Denninger

1970
Scene of the Crime

as Bernhard 'Carlos' von Fiedler

1970
Scene of the Crime

as Andreas Franke

1970
Scene of the Crime

as Günther Kowatsch