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