Gustav Knuth

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 (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 (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 (1955) – Soldat Horner
Reaching for the Stars (1955) – Carlo
Die Ratten (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 (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 (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 (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 (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
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1901 births
1987 deaths
Actors from Braunschweig
German male film actors
German male television actors
20th-century German male actors