Biografia
One of Germany’s most versatile actors Herbert Knaup was born in Sonthofen (Bavaria) in 1956 and studied at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. After establishing himself as a noted theatre actor, he made his feature film debut in 1989 in Waller’s Last Trip (dir. Christian Wagner) and received the Bavarian Movie Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dominik Graf’s 1994 thriller, The Invincibles. He has since been a regular on the German screen, with credits including Josef Vilsmaier’s Brother of Sleep (1995), and Tom Tykwer’s Run, Lola, Run for which he was honored with Best Supporting Actor at the 1999 German Movie Award.
In 2000 he played Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, alongside Alec Baldwin in the television series Nuremberg, which received three Golden Globes® nominations. Recent film credits include Oskar Roehler’s Agnes and His Brothers, Josef Vilsmaier’s Rock Crystal, Bernd Böhlich Du bist nicht allein for which he received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the German Film Awards. He also appeared in Ben Sombogaart’s Crusade in Jeans and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 Academy Award® winner The Lives of Others. Just prior to portraying a Jewish family father in In Darkness, Mr. Knaup played Adolf Eichmann in the television movie Eichmanns Ende.
Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv
Aktor
Dokumentalne | |
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2023 |
Ich bin! Margot Friedländer (film telewizyjny) |
2010 |
Eichmanns Ende (film telewizyjny) |
Krótkometrażowe | |
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2013 |
Wolfstraum (film studencki) |
2011 |
Hotel Desire |
2007 |
15 Minuten Wahrheit |
2004 |
Der letzte Flug |
1999 |
Framed |
1997 |
Silber und Gold |
1978 |
Coda |