
Acting
Sieghardt Rupp
Born — Died
1931-06-14 — 2015-07-20
Place of birth
Bregenz, Austria
Known for
Acting
Credits
73 titles
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 Su…
Known for
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
5.9SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.
SOKO München
1978
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
7.8The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
6.8Peter Strohm is a private detective with radical methods. His work begins where police work ends; he takes on sensitive cases that require a certain scale, or explosive situations that can lead to international crises.
Peter Strohm
1989
7.9During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966
Film credits
1990s · 3 titles
5.9This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Weininger's last despondent hours are depicted in a dramatic furioso. His whole life passes by like distorted images in a mirror. The young genius fights a desperate battle against time, his fellow men - and against himself.
Weininger's Last Night
1990
A tectonic displacement at the centre of a large family. No member of the family stays clear of the quake's reverberations.
Etwas am Herzen
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Die spanische Fliege
1995
1980s · 2 titles
1970s · 7 titles
5.8Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Breakthrough
1979
4.9Hamburg ship captain Markus Jolly is hired to transport a vaccine to a Latin American port, but when the precious cargo is stolen by mobsters, he is falsely accused of engineering the theft.
Nurses for Sale
1971
7.5The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne is suspected of the crime and arrested by Inspector Cerdan. He is ordered to take her to Colombo. But the plane on the way there gets caught in a heavy storm and crashes shortly afterwards. Anne Pinaud and Cerdan are the only survivors of the crew and save themselves on a desert island. There they come across Werner Becker, who has been shipwrecked with his yacht and is also stranded here. While Cerdan continues to believe Anne is guilty of the crime, Werner believes she is innocent. Soon the tension between the two men builds up and they become rivals for Anne's favor.
Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen
1974
7.0A private detective infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
1972
Duke Henry XI of Liegnitz, a "drunkard" and "glutton", slaps his wife Sophia in the face because she calls his mistress a whore. When the Duchess then flees to her brother, the Margrave of Ansbach, Henry fears that the population and his brother will take up arms against him. He leaves Leignitz and travels to Prague to dissuade his brother Frederick from his plan to sue him before the emperor. However, Heinrich gets a rebuff and is placed under arrest. Eventually, however, he is released...
Narrenspiegel
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Der Tod des Ministers
1972
7.5Captain Jeff Barlow is a pilot with heart and soul. On behalf of a French company, he dares to conduct an experiment that is not without danger: dry ice is to be shot into clouds over the Sahara to make them rain down. The aim is to put an end to the water shortage. However, the artificial rain project is anything but harmless. But Captain Barlow is far too passionate an aviator to be deterred by the danger. And so what has to happen, happens. A sandstorm is Barlow's undoing and he crashes his plane. Lost in the vastness of the Sahara, there is no trace of him. A search operation is launched but is unsuccessful. A race against time begins for Barlow, as his water supplies are running low...
Heißer Sand
1971
1960s · 46 titles
7.8The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
7.9During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966
6.4Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace. Alternate English Title: Amongst Vultures.
Frontier Hellcat
1964
6.4Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.
Angelique and the Sultan
1968
6.5Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
Untamable Angelique
1967
5.5Dakota, 1880. In Silver Springs, with the help of hired thugs, a lawyer tries to take over the town by sabotage, theft and brutal murders. The arrival in town of a new undercover sheriff hinder their plans.
Man Called Gringo
1965
5.2While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.
Five Golden Dragons
1967
5.1Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's brother, Sartana, who has taken Manuela, Johnny's fiancèe to be his lover. With his only friend a mute, Johnny must seize all opportunity to find out why he was framed, who was involved and why he is not welcome. source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
$1,000 on the Black
1966
6.7An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.
Red Dragon
1965
5.7Kara Ben-Nemsi, friends and rescuers set out to free a young relative of the guardian of the treasure of the Chaldaeans (Christian sect), who is captured for that fabulous ransom.
Kingdom of the Silver Lion
1965
8.5British detective Tim Frazer hunts a myserious murderer who kills smugglers in the city of Antwerpen.
Case 33: Antwerp
1964
7.2A poor orphan boy runs away from the children's home and sets up his lonely fatherly friend with his youth welfare officer. As a result, nothing stands in the way of our hero's adoption.
Heintje - A Heart Goes on a Journey
1969
5.2Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late.
The Killer Likes Candy
1968
5.2After marrying Hofrat Geiger, Marianne moves to Vienna to be with her husband. She runs the household while her daughter attends the music academy. But Mariandl is heartbroken. She constantly catches her Peter in strange situations with other women. Marianne, on the other hand, constantly has to listen to the innuendo of Franzi, Geiger's long-time housekeeper, who would have loved to be a Hofrat herself. Frustrated, mother and daughter decide to leave Vienna and visit their grandfather. He has inherited a dilapidated farm in the Wachau region, where horses are kept, awaiting shipment to Italian slaughterhouses. Through two benefit concerts, the talented music student Mariandl is able to raise enough money to buy the horses' freedom.
Mariandl's Homecoming
1962
4.4An officer and a count who live in opposite ends of the same castle bet each other who will be the first to bed their respective new 'virgin' maid. The winner will get ownership of the castle. In order to attain his goal, the officer ignores his lusty fiancee but she soon finds a luitenant to turn her attention to. Eventually a whole stable of local prostitutes gets in on the act.
The Sweet Pussycats
1969
7.5Somehow it doesn't work out with marriage, so the charming and extremely pretty fashion designer Barbara Schönfelder, in her late 20s, entrusts herself to a marriage planning institute - and experiences many an amusing adventure on her 'blind dates', but everything goes wrong. Only when the right man, her boss who is secretly in love with her, takes the initiative do the wedding bells finally ring.
Ich suche einen Mann
1966
4.5A Count and Countess, their lovelife losing luster, invite some people over ...
The Brazen Women of Balzac
1969
7.7An assumed-dead gangster wants to implicate a completely innocent man to pay for his crimes so he can give the slip to his avengers and persecutors.
Who Killed Johnny R.?
1966
6.8A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.
Lulu
1962
6.8Deep in the African Congo, revolution rages and explosive documents have fallen into the hands of nationalist guerillas. The Red Berets are the government's only hope of retrieving papers which could change the course of the war.
The Seven Red Berets
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Der Gürtel
1967
7.0A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away.
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
1964
3.8The town leaders of an Austrian mountain village conspire to attract tourists by touting a mythical "fountain of love" that runs nearby the village. When the minister of tourism discovers this, she immediately sends her agents to check out the veracity of the potentially scandalous water. After the village mayor declares a 3-day ban on sexual activity, he then plugs up the fountain. When the agents come, they find nothing. One of the agents wants to have his boss come and check it out personally, but changes his mind after he drinks some of the water. It really is an aphrodisiac! Soon tourists are arriving by the hundreds to sample the mysterious water. Unfortunately, the minister finds out and claims the water for the state.
The Fountain of Love
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Don Juan kommt zurück
1963
7.0Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
Stop Train 349
1963
6.5In a german suburb a babysitter is too busy with her own teenage business and leaves a boy with his little sister alone. Then the girl is missing. The only way the family and society are able to deal with the horror is to ignore it and hide the truth in the closet.
Little Vampire
1968
4.5A meek tailor named Nickolaus decides to form a band of robbers to proof his manliness. Unfortunately he soon draws the attention of an actual gang-leader, Der Rote Rollo.
Und ewig knallen die Räuber
1962
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Heimweh nach dir, mein grünes Tal
1960
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Am Galgen hängt die Liebe
1960
6.7A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her child, but the urge to strangle women with red necklaces still haunts him.
The Red Pastures
1962
7.5Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the case, the more she notices inconsistencies. Her husband Günther is also behaving more and more strangely. It seems that he was also involved in the accident...
An Alibi for Death
1963
9.5No synopsis available yet.
Sixty Nine Games of Love
1968
7.5While on vacation, the young, Benedictine monk Markus runs into temptation in the form of his childhood sweetheart, Linda. Linda, the daughter of Baron Danning, is about to marry the rich manufacturer’s son, Walter Bertram, to save the Danning family estate from the Baron’s debtors. But her encounter with Markus is creating doubts about the sincerity of her love for Walter. So she keeps pushing back their wedding, using as a pretext the demand, that she’ll only marry when the now-silent church organ in the village once more plays. But the organ builder Franz is in a dispute with his twin brother Joseph and has no time to fix the disused organ.
Der Orgelbauer von St. Marien
1961
A woman (Maria Emo) cares for her older husband (Hugo Gottschlich) who makes his living smuggling things across the Tyrolian Mountains in this tragic drama. The police know the husband is up to no good but have been unable to catch him in the act. A young policeman (Sieghardt Rupp) is assigned in hopes of cracking the case, and the wife falls in love with the cop. When the husband discovers the two are in love, he picks up a knife and goes to fight the policeman for the woman he loves.
Der Weibsteufel
1966
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Die Försterchristel
1962
9.0A drama that chronicles the heroic endeavors of POWs trapped within a Russian prison camp in 1950 and their attempts to escape.
Until Hell Is Frozen
1961
6.8After World War II, a lot of people, who lived in the eastern parts of the Third Reich had to be relocated. One of them is Hugo Starosta (Martin Held) with his family. They live in a fortress. Hugo is unemployed, his children don't seem to like school, but somehow they managa to get through.
Condemned to Sin
1964
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Glocken läuten überall
1960
7.5At the age of 17 Inge falls in love with her teacher.
Wegen Verführung Minderjähriger
1960
6.0Thomas, son of sawmill owner Mautner, is more interested in music and women than in his father's business. His latest acquaintance is the young Andrea Sternberg, whom he rescues from a torrent and whose father wants to build a hotel on the Mautners' property. After an argument with his father, Thomas goes to Bad Gastein, where he lives a lavish life with Andrea and her friends. His father lends him money to finance this, hoping to gain access to Thomas's property. Cornered by Sternberg, Thomas is forced to return to his father and confess.
Wild Waters
1962
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Das Feuerschiff
1963
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Waldrausch
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Die Kobibs'chen des Mr. Miggletwitcher
1969
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Deutschland - deine Sternchen
1962
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Immer nur Mordgeschichten
1968
10.0A child is kidnapped by a secret organization to force his father to be part of a drug-smuggling ring.
La lunga sfida
1967
Series credits
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.2Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Scene of the Crime
1970
5.9SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.
SOKO München
1978
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
6.8Peter Strohm is a private detective with radical methods. His work begins where police work ends; he takes on sensitive cases that require a certain scale, or explosive situations that can lead to international crises.
Peter Strohm
1989
8.0Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970.
Hamburg Transit
1970
9.0Der Kurier der Kaiserin is a German Television series.
Der Kurier der Kaiserin
1970
10.0Hallo – Hotel Sacher … Portier! is an Austrian television series.
Hallo – Hotel Sacher … Portier!
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Novellen aus dem wilden Westen
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Wolken über Kaprun
1966
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Spion unter der Haube
1969



