Sieghardt Rupp
Born: 1931-06-14 in Bregenz, Austria
Died: 2015-07-20
Known For: Acting
Biography
Sieghardt Rupp (14 June 1931 – 20 July 2015) was an Austrian actor who performed in film, television and theatre. He made over 55 film and TV appearances beginning in 1959, with his career peaking in the 1960s. He became known for his performances in gangster or Western films in the 1960s where he typically portrayed a bandit or mercenary. His dark features, similar to those of his Italian co-stars meant that he could play Latin characters, such as Mexicans. His most noted Western performance was his role as Esteban Rojo in Sergio Leone's 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars alongside Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volonté. He appeared in many other Westerns in the 1960s such as Blood at Sundown (1966) although he appeared in the romantic adventure Angelique and the Sultan in 1968.
Filmography
2024
- "Auf der Alm da gibt's koa Sünd" - Die Erotikfilme der 1960er, -70er und -80er Jahre as Nils Hansen (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
- Die spanische Fliege as Ludwig Baumann
1994
- Etwas am Herzen as Paul
1990
- Weininger's Last Night as Leopold, his father / Sigmund Freud
1989
- Peter Strohm as Wexler
- Professor Bernhardi as Prof. Dr. Flint
1981
- The Butcher as Hermann
1979
- Breakthrough as Corporal Rothe
1978
- SOKO München as Rollauscher
1974
- Derrick as Ewald Scholler
- Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen as Heller
1973
- Hallo – Hotel Sacher … Portier! as Mr. Billinger
1972
- Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street as Viktor Kressin
- Der Tod des Ministers as Kapitän Michal
1971
- Nurses for Sale as Rodrigo
- Narrenspiegel as Parocki
- Heißer Sand as Arthur Durban
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Victor Kressin
- Hamburg Transit as 2. Gangster
- Der Kurier der Kaiserin as Ritchi
1969
- The Sweet Pussycats as Oberst
- The Seven Red Berets as Sergente Vlasky
- Heintje - A Heart Goes on a Journey as Günter Schelle
- Die Kobibs'chen des Mr. Miggletwitcher as Pressefotograf Wilden
- Novellen aus dem wilden Westen
- The Brazen Women of Balzac as Georg
- Spion unter der Haube as John Marple
1968
- Angelique and the Sultan as Millerand
- Sixty Nine Games of Love as Rosmann
- Little Vampire as Achims Vater
- The Killer Likes Candy as Alì
- Immer nur Mordgeschichten as Paris Belmont
1967
- Mittsommernacht as Aslak
- Der Gürtel as Graf Sándor Lasztóczy
- Hochspannung as Alfred Schindler
- Untamable Angelique as Millerand
- La lunga sfida as Gert Schneider
- Five Golden Dragons as Peterson
1966
- The Fountain of Love as Nils Hansen
- Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! as Lieutenant Sturmer
- $1,000 on the Black as Ralph
- Ich suche einen Mann as Direktor Voss
- Der Weibsteufel as Der Gendarm
- Wolken über Kaprun as Franz Haberzettl
- Who Killed Johnny R.? as Captain Jason Conroy
1965
- Red Dragon as Pierre Milot
- Kingdom of the Silver Lion as Abu Seif
- Man Called Gringo as Reno
1964
- A Fistful of Dollars as Esteban Rojo
- Condemned to Sin as Hermann Starosta
- Tim Frazer Hunts the Mysterious Mr. X as Jack van Druten
- The Last Ride to Santa Cruz as Fernando
- Frontier Hellcat as Preston
1963
- Das Feuerschiff as Eugen
- Stop Train 349 as Eugen
- An Alibi for Death as Leopold Wasneck
- Don Juan kommt zurück as Don Juan
1962
- Wild Waters as Markus Mautner
- Lulu as Maler Schwarz
- Mariandl's Homecoming as Deininger
- Die Försterchristel as Franz Földessy aka Rittmeister Franz Koltai
- Und ewig knallen die Räuber as Georg
- The Red Pastures as Karl
- Deutschland - deine Sternchen as Kurzweil
- Waldrausch as Crispin Sagenbacher
1961
- Der Orgelbauer von St. Marien as Bruder Markus Burgmann
- Until Hell Is Frozen as Lauterbach
1960
- Glocken läuten überall as Franz Stadler
- Wegen Verführung Minderjähriger as Prosecutor
- Am Galgen hängt die Liebe as Petros
- Heimweh nach dir, mein grünes Tal as Fred Schantl