Gustav Knuth (7 July 1901 – 1 February 1987) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1935 and 1982 and starred in the TV series ''
Alle meine Tiere''. He was married to the actress
Elisabeth Lennartz.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Valley of Love'' (1935) – Hans Stork
* ''
Heimweh'' (1937) – Christof Peleikis, Fischer und Steuermann
* ''
Shadows Over St. Pauli'' (1938) – Oschi Rasmus
* ''
The Curtain Falls
''The Curtain Falls'' () is a 1939 German crime film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Anneliese Uhlig, Elfie Mayerhofer and Hilde Sessak. It was based on a play by Paul van der Hurck and was made by UFA at the company's Babelsberg Studio ...
'' (1939) – Dr. Cornelsen
* ''Mann für Mann'' (1939) – Walter Zügel
* ''The Desert Song'' (1939) – Nic Brenten, Ingenieur
* ''
Between Hamburg and Haiti'' (1940) – Henry Brinkmann
* ''
The Girl from Fano'' (1941) – Fischer Frerk
* ''
Friedemann Bach'' (1941) – Johann Christoph Altnikol
* ''
Pedro Will Hang'' (1941) – Pedro, Hirte
* ''
The Big Game'' (1942) – Trainer Karl Wildbrandt
* ''Gefährtin meines Sommers'' (1943) – Georg Polenz, Müller
* ''Ein glücklicher Mensch'' (1943) – Georg, sein Sohn
* ''
Große Freiheit Nr. 7
''Große Freiheit Nr. 7'' (English: ''Great Freedom No. 7'') is a 1944 German musical film, musical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was named after Große Freiheit (grand freedom), a street next to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St. ...
'' (1944) – Fiete
* ''Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen'' (1944) – Autofahrer
* ''Das Leben geht weiter'' (1945) – Dr. Ewald Martens
* ''
Under the Bridges'' (1946) – Willy
* ''
Journey to Happiness'' (1948) – Holm, Antiquitätenhändler
* ''
The Secret of the Red Cat'' (1949) – Pitou
* ''
Tromba'' (1949) – Ernesto Spadoli, Artist
* ''Einmaleins der Ehe'' (1949) – Willy Obermayer
* ''
The Blue Straw Hat'' (1949) – Caesar von Waldau
* ''
Beloved Liar'' (1950) – Braubach
* ''
Theodore the Goalkeeper'' (1950) – Knospe
* ''
A Day Will Come'' (1950) – Paul
* ''Land der Sehnsucht'' (1950)
* ''Eine Frau mit Herz'' (1951) – Papi Straßmeier
* ''Das seltsame Leben des Herrn Bruggs'' (1951) – Eberhard Bruggs
* ''
The Blue Star of the South'' (1951) – Bruck
* ''
Palace Hotel'' (1952) – Loosli, Kellermeister
* ''
That Can Happen to Anyone'' (1952) – Herr Schwidders
* ''
Der fröhliche Weinberg'' (1952) – J.B. (Jean Baptiste) Gunderloch
* ''
The Venus of Tivoli'' (1953) – Hermann Schninkat
* ''
Not Afraid of Big Animals'' (1953) – Schimmel
* ''
Must We Get Divorced?'' (1953) – Dr. Spitzkoetter
* ''
The Night Without Morals'' (1953) – Abruzzo
* ''
The Abduction of the Sabine Women'' (1954) – Emanuel Striese
* ''
The Mosquito'' (1954) – Karrari
* ''
On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight'' (1954) – Brandstetter snr.
* ''
Beloved Enemy
''Beloved Enemy'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by H.C. Potter and starring Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, and David Niven. It was loosely based on the life of Michael Collins.
Plot
During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, Irish ...
'' (1955) – Soldat Horner
* ''
Reaching for the Stars'' (1955) – Carlo
* ''
Die Ratten
' (''The Rats'') is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. It is an adaptation of the 1911 play '' The Rats'' by Gerhart Hauptmann, but sets the story in the early 1950s, shortly after the Second World War.
The film won the Go ...
'' (1955) – Karl John
* ''
Sky Without Stars'' (1955) – Otto Friese
* ''
Sissi'' (1955) –
Duke Max in Bavaria
* ''
I Often Think of Piroschka'' (1955) – Istvan Rácz
* ' (1955) – Major Hinrichsen
* ''
Regine'' (1956) – Der alte Winter
* ''Hengst Maestoso Austria'' (1956) – Loisl, Bildhauer und Maler
* ''
My Husband's Getting Married Today'' (1956) – Karl Nielsen
* ''
If We All Were Angels'' (1956) – Kommissar
* ''S'Waisechind vo Engelberg'' (1956) – Andreas
* ''
Spy for Germany'' (1956) – Roger Bentley
* ''
Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin'' (1956) –
Duke Max in Bavaria
* ''
The Beggar Student'' (1956) – Oberst Ollendorf
* ''
The Girl and the Legend'' (1957) – Carlton Heep
* ''...und die Liebe lacht dazu'' (1957) – Klaus Papendiek
* ' (1957) – Jack Hover
* ''
Der 10. Mai'' (1957) – deutscher Konsul
* ''
The Count of Luxemburg'' (1957) – Fürst Basil Basilowitsch
* ''
Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin'' (1957) –
Duke Max in Bavaria
* ''Europas neue Musikparade 1958'' (1957) – Hellmann
* ''
A Piece of Heaven'' (1957) – Ludwig von Pröhl
* ''Man ist nur zweimal jung'' (1958) – Ruedi Stuffer
* ''Ihr 106. Geburtstag'' (1958) – Anton Burger
* ''Der schwarze Blitz'' (1958) – Hotelier Haringer
* ' (1958) – Waldemar Graf Hatzberg zu Eberstein
* ''
The House of Three Girls'' (1958) – Christian Tschöll
* ''Kleine Leute mal ganz groß'' (1958) – Ferdinand Sommerrock
* ''
Arena of Fear'' (1959) – Carl de Vries
* ''Alle lieben Peter'' (1959) – Generaldirektor Steiner
* ''
Two Times Adam, One Time Eve'' (1959) – Viirimäki
* ''
The Buddenbrooks'' (1959) – Diederich Schwarzkopf
* ''Freddy unter fremden Sternen'' (1959) – Henry O'Brien
* ''
I'm Marrying the Director'' (1960) – Friedrich Kiesberg
* ''
Das kunstseidene Mädchen'' (1960) – Arthur Grönland
* ''Kein Engel ist so rein'' (1960) – Sepp Ziegler
* ''
Stage Fright
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'' (1960) – Herr Seipel
* ''
The Man in the Black Derby'' (1960) – Generaldirektor Meißen
* ''
Conny and Peter Make Music'' (1960) – Trautmann
* ''
A Woman for Life'' (1960) – Vater Barnebusch
* ' (1960) – Erich Füllgrabe
* ''
You Don't Shoot at Angels'' (1960) – Carlos
* ''
Sacred Waters
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'' (1960) – Der Presi, Hans Waldisch, Wirt zum Bären
* ' (1961) – Konsul Otto Seeberg
* ''Musik ist Trumpf'' (1961) – Hoteldirektor
* ''
Only the Wind'' (1961) – Sean O'Connor
* ''Chikita'' (1961) – Eugen Stärkle
* ''
The Liar'' (1961) – Rotbarth
* ''
Alle meine Tiere'' (1962–1963, TV series, 9 episodes) – Dr. Karl Hofer
* ''Die Nylonschlinge'' (1963) – Charles Clifton
* ''
My Daughter and I'' (1963) – Dr. Walther
* ''Die ganze Welt ist himmelblau'' (1964) – John P. Hoover
* ''
I Learned It from Father'' (1964) – Theaterdirektor Löwe
* ''
The World Revolves Around You
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It was sho ...
'' (1964) – Holger Andreesen, Lilians Vater
* ' (1964, TV film) – Herbert Beutler/Isaac Newton
* ''
Legend of a Gunfighter'' (1964) – Richard Bradley
* ''
Shots in Threequarter Time'' (1965) – Igor
* ''
Heidi
''Heidi'' (; ) is a work of children's fiction published between 1880 and 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as ''Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning'' () and ''Heidi: How She Used What She Learned'' ( ...
'' (1965) – Alp-Oehi, Heidi's Grandfather
* ''
Aunt Frieda'' (1965) – Gustav Schultheiss
* ' (1966, TV film) – Franz Lehmhuhn
* ' (1966) – Mr. Abonyi, Stefan's father
* ''
Onkel Filser – Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten'' (1966) – Gustav Schultheiss
* ' (1967–1968, TV series, 8 episodes) – Heinrich König
* ''
Sexy Susan Sins Again'' (1968) – Mayor
* ''
Salto Mortale'' (1969–1972, TV series, 18 episodes) – Carlo Doria
* ' (1969) – Bürgermeister
* ''
Charley's Uncle'' (1969) – Kapitän Tressblekken / Onkel Reginald Tressblekken
* ''Pepe, der Paukerschreck – Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank, III. Teil'' (1969) – Kurt Nietnagel
* ''Die Powenzbande'' (1974, TV miniseries) – Baltus Powenz
* ''
Iron Gustav'' (1979, TV miniseries) – Gustav Hackendahl
* ''
Der Bockerer'' (1981) – Vater Knabe
Further reading
*Gustav Knuth, ''Mit einem Lächeln im Knopfloch'', Verlagsgesellschaft R. Gleiss & Co., Hamburg, 1974. (autobiography)
References
External links
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1901 births
1987 deaths
Male actors from Braunschweig
German male film actors
German male television actors
20th-century German male actors