Friedrich Gnaß was born on 13 November 1892 in Langendreer, Bochum, Province of Westphalia, Prussia [now Bochum, North-Rhine Westphalia], Germany. He was an actor, known for Bir Şehir Katilini Arıyor (1931), Danton (1931) and Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen (1932). He died on 8 May 1958 in East Berlin, East Germany.