---
name: "Gottfried Huppertz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gottfried-huppertz"
fi1m_id: "gottfried-huppertz"
imdb_id: "nm0403288"
tmdb_id: 69
wikidata_id: "Q96065"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "11 March 1887"
died: "7 February 1937"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:47:48.662772+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gottfried Huppertz

## Identity

Gottfried Huppertz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gottfried-huppertz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gottfried-huppertz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0403288
- **TMDB ID:** 69
- **Wikidata ID:** Q96065
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Huppertz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96065, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69

Composer. Born 11 March 1887 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Died 7 February 1937.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 11 March 1887, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- **Died:** 7 February 1937
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 crew, 1 other
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Huppertz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96065, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Metropolis*](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md) (87)

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## Biography

Gottfried Huppertz (11 March 1887 – 7 February 1937) was a German composer. He studied at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne and began his career as a singer and actor, debuting in 1910. He later worked in Berlin as an opera singer.

Huppertz composed scores for several silent films directed by Fritz Lang, including *Die Nibelungen: Siegfried* (1924), *Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge* (1924) and *Metropolis* (1927). His score for *Metropolis* is his best-known work. He also wrote music for other films such as *Chronicles of the Gray House* (1925) and later talkies.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Metropolis* (1927), Fi1m 87, as Man Playing Violin (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922), Fi1m 77, as (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Caligari: When Horror Came to Cinema* (2014), Music
- *Across the Desert* (1936), Music
- *The Green Domino* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Der grüne Domino* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Elisabeth and the Jester* (1934), Music
- *Der Judas von Tirol* (1933), Music
- *Metropolis* (1927), as Man Playing Violin (uncredited) · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)
- *The Chronicles of the Gray House* (1925), Music
- *Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge* (1924), Original Music Composer
- *Die Nibelungen: Siegfried* (1924), Original Music Composer
- *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922), as (uncredited) — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.md)
- *Four Around the Woman* (1921), as Head Waiter

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