Rupert von Trapp

Rupert von Trapp

Rupert Georg von Trapp was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and film The Sound of Music. He was portrayed as the character Friedrich in the film. He grew up in Zell am See during World War I with his siblings.

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Summary Rupert von TrappRupert Georg von Trapp was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and film The Sound of Music. He was portrayed as the character Friedrich in the film. He grew up in Zell am See during World War I with his siblings, Agathe, Maria Franziska, Werner, Hedwig, and Johanna.

He studied medicine and sang bass in the family chorus. In 1947 he married his first wife, Henriette Lajoie, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1948. Trapp married his second wife, Janice Tyre, in 1977.