Gustav Knuth was born on 7 July 1901 in Brunswick, Germany. After he received acting lessons from Casimir Paris, a well known actor at that time, he made his stage debut at the Stadttheater Heidelberg in 1918. Later, he played in Hamburg and also in Basel, Switzerland, but finally returned to Hamburg. In 1935, his first movie Ammenkönig, Der (1935) became a unexpected success and many more such as the legendary Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944) or the Sissi (1955) trilogy in the 1950s fo ...[Read Story]