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Herbert Knaup

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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.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Lives of Others

Appears in a KinoChain journey

23 000 Lives

As Dr. Norbert Dehler

Run Lola Run

As Father

Nuremberg

As Albert Speer

The Little Ghost

As Uhrmachermeister Zifferle

Erntedank - Ein Allgäu-Krimi

As Kommissar A. I. Kluftinger

Die Musterknaben

As Kamphausen

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Unmasked: Living in the Aftermath of Exposure

The secret is out, and the thrill of anonymity is gone. This collection skips the suspense of a secret identity to focus on the unglamorous aftermath of total e...

7 films

Love in the Time of Espionage

From Berlin to Buenos Aires, a journey through films where romance and espionage entwine, revealing the human cost of secrets.

7 films

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