Herbert Knaup
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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
Credits
The Lives of Others (2006)
as Gregor Hessenstein
23 000 Lives (2026)
as Dr. Norbert Dehler
Run Lola Run (1998)
as Father
In Darkness (2011)
as Ignacy Chiger
Hotel Desire (2011)
as Hotel Manager
Agnes and His Brothers (2004)
as Werner Tschirner
Brother of Sleep (1995)
as Cantor Goller
Clarissas Geheimnis (2012)
as Konstantin
The Little Ghost (2013)
as Uhrmachermeister Zifferle
Bon Appétit (2010)
as Thomas
Distant Lights (2003)
as Klaus
Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
as De Heer
Move (2012)
as Dinas Vater
Annas Heimkehr (2003)
as Toni Schweighofer
Der Aufstand (2003)
as Rudolf Herrnstadt
Liebe und andere Gefahren (2009)
as Thomas 'Tom' Sellier
Hafen der Düfte (2013)
as Peter Philips
Die Friedensmission - 10 Stunden Angst (1997)
as Major Weinrich
Fever (1998)
as Doermer
Anna und ihr Untermieter - Volles Haus (2026)
as Horst Schulte-Bräucker
Die Aufnahmeprüfung (2012)
as Ferdinand Meissner
Marco W. - 247 Tage im türkischen Gefängnis (2011)
as Ralf Weiss
The Elementary Particles (2006)
as Sollers
The Guardians (2012)
as Henri Brietner
Just Something Nice (2022)
as Robert
Crusade in Jeans (2006)
as Carlo Bennatti
Patricias Geheimnis (1995)
as Henning
Gefährliche Träume - Das Geheimnis einer Frau (2000)
as Leonard Cass
Der Mörder meines Vaters (2005)
as Phillip Koch
Harte Brötchen (2002)
as Jörg Erdmann
Anatomy 2 (2003)
as Professor Müller-LaRousse
Landauer (2014)
as Sigi Hermann
This Is Love (2009)
as Dominik
In the Name of Love (2006)
as Herr Novak
Ganz und gar (2003)
as Manfred
The Salvation Of The World As We Know It (2021)
as Stetter
Der Herr der Wüste (2003)
as Richard Bucher
Blind Date - Flirt mit Folgen (1998)
as Markus
Komm, schöner Tod (2012)
as Jens Kurzhals
Mogadischu (2008)
as Ulrich Wegener
Die Nacht der Engel (2000)
as Breiner
Mein erster Freund, Mutter und ich (2003)
as Sven Maiwald
Jerry Cotton (2010)
as Mr. High
Zwei Tänzer für Isolde (2017)
as Hans
Mit verbundenen Augen (1995)
as Alex Ziegler
The Writing on the Wall (1996)
as Lopahkin
You're Not Alone (2007)
as Kurt Wellinek
Kriegsbilder (1996)
as Jan Loy
Waller's Last Trip (1989)
as Waller (jung)
Lucky Child (2014)
as Hans Scholz
Erntedank - Ein Allgäu-Krimi (2009)
as Kommissar A. I. Kluftinger
Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar (2008)
as Erzengel Michael
The Last Pig (2016)
as Narrator (voice)
Schutzpatron. Ein Kluftingerkrimi (2016)
as Kluftinger
Framed (1999)
as Un infirmier
Toter Winkel (2017)
as Karl Holzer
Flesh and Blood (2011)
as Bogdan
The Invincibles (1994)
as Karl Simon
Molly & Mops – Das Leben ist kein Gugelhupf (2010)
as Hannes Voss
600 PS für zwei (2015)
as Lorenz Hoffmann
Male Mistakes (2014)
as Georg Trautmann
Angst (2003)
as Wolfgang
Der Untergang der Pamir (2006)
as Ludwig Lewerenz
Mein Vater, seine Neue und ich (2005)
as Paul
Herzblut. Ein Kluftingerkrimi (2016)
as Kluftinger
Hamlet_X (2003)
as Laertes
Ein Sommer im Allgäu (2017)
as Hans
Vergewaltigt - Die Wahrheit und andere Lügen (1997)
as Dr. de Winter
15 Minuten Wahrheit (2007)
as Georg Komann
Das beste Stück vom Braten (2016)
as Harry Dumont
Unschuldsengel (1994)
as Paul Hansen
Hubert und Staller – Eine schöne Bescherung (2018)
as Franz Hübner
Der Bankraub (2016)
as von Kamphausen
Der Geier - Die Tote mit dem falschen Leben (2024)
as Frank Becker
Die Tochter des Kommissars (2001)
as Volker Harms
Crossroads (2018)
as Heiner Witt
Der Auftrag (2004)
as Debussion
Marlene (2000)
as Rudolf Sieber
Der Tiger oder Was Frauen lieben! (2009)
as Dr. Franz Reinhard
Entscheidung im Eis - Eine Frau jagt den Mörder (2001)
as Jan Meinert
Homecoming (2012)
as Bürgermeister
Dear Kurt (2022)
as Mahlow
Die Musterknaben (1997)
as Kamphausen
Pilgerfahrt nach Padua (2011)
as Benno Fischer
Südsee, eigene Insel (1999)
as Albert
Der Bär ist los! Die Geschichte von Bruno (2009)
as Matthias Lettenbichler
Schandmal – Der Tote im Berg (2011)
as Walter Aschauer
Augenzeugin (2008)
as Alexander Kant
Späte Aussicht (2007)
as Peter Frei
Meister des Todes (2015)
as Moritz Hollstein
Special Escort (2007)
as Giselher
Zur Zeit zu zweit (1998)
as Jan Wolf
Mittlere Reife (2012)
as Oliver Seifert
Anna's Summer (2001)
as Max Feldmann
Eichmanns Ende (2010)
as Adolf Eichmann
Ich bring Dich hinter Gitter (2002)
as Schaller
Die Auferstehung (2018)
as Fred
A Good Opportunity (1999)
as Lorenz Kellermann
August der Glückliche (2002)
as Grabowski
Arschkalt (2011)
as Rainer Berg
Molly & Mops - Ein Mops kommt selten allein (2011)
as Voss
Rock Crystal (2004)
as Paul
Die Zeit mit Euch (2014)
as Heiko Hartung
Klassentreffen – Mordfall unter Freunden (2001)
as Littmann
Die Braut (1999)
as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Irren ist männlich (1996)
as Thomas
Therapie und Praxis (2002)
as Bernhard Meier
Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi (2012)
as Kommisar Kluftinger
Seegrund. Ein Kluftingerkrimi (2013)
as Kluftinger
Eine Hochzeit platzt selten allein (2018)
as Oliver Wackernagel
Anna und ihr Untermieter - Plötzlich Schwiegermutter (2025)
as Horst Schulte-Bräucker
Magic Girl (1995)
as Horst Antz
Margarete Steiff (2005)
as Vater Steiff
Wildwechsel (2014)
as Christoph
Beyond the Wall (2009)
as Frank Pramann
Berlin, 10:46 (1994)
as Claus
Ins Leben zurück (2003)
as Martin Lorenz
Stenzels Bescherung (2019)
as Volkmar Stenzel
Herbert (un)verbesserlich (2024)
as Herbert Knaup
Roccos Reise (—)
Actor
Der letzte Flug (2004)
as Hauptmann Kant
Fürchte dich nicht (2007)
as Ralf Bischof
Silver and Gold (1997)
Actor
Kinder der Nacht (1995)
as David
Sanfte Morde (1997)
as Dr. Plath
Der große Tom (2008)
as Dr. Heinrich Werhahn
Jimmy the Kid (1999)
as Dortmunder
Die Ohrfeige (2006)
as Friedrich Gelmini