At the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg in 2005, Helmut Krauss took on the role of Don Geronimo, a friendly innkeeper who runs a cantina in the small Mexican town of Guaymas.

In this role, Krauss formed the bourgeois contrast to Peter Lustig; the two mostly engaged in friendly rivalries and arguments within the episodes.

He had guest appearances in productions such as Berliner Weiße mit Schuß, Tatort, Lukas und Sohn, Der Hausgeist, Praxis Bülowbogen or Pastewka; in the latter he played himself.

He also became known to a nationwide television audience through his portrayal of the plainclothes detective "Django" Fiebig in the police series Direktion City, which was produced by the then SFB in three seasons based on the English model Task Force Police, together with Andreas Mannkopff, Ulli Kinalzik, Klaus Sonnenschein, Gerd Duwner and many other well-known Berlin actors.

In 2015, Krauss worked again with director Hordes and appeared in front of the camera for Goblin alongside Eva Habermann, Jiří Lábus and Katy Karrenbauer.

[4][5] In 2019, Krauss worked with Hordes for a third time and played Inspector Hornbacher in the dramedy series Patchwork Gangsta, produced by SWR for the media channel funk.

Krauss has lent his voice to Marlon Brando, John Goodman, Yaphet Kotto, Wilhelm von Homburg, Jean Reno, Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Winfield, Jon Voight and the music project E-Nomine, as well as Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow) in the American sitcom Home Alone.

In 1987, Krauss lent his dark, menacing voice to the pale-faced nailhead Pinhead in the surreal horror film Hellraiser.

In Oliver Döring's Star Wars radio play Labyrinth of Evil (based on the novel of the same name by James Luceno) Krauss voiced a bartender - ISBN 978-3-8291-2087-6.

In Bernhard Hennen's radio play series The Elves, Krauss took on the role of the master builder Guido from episode 9 in 2014.

With the express consent of his heirs, the director was authorized to use the appearance and voice of Helmut Krauss in this production and future film projects in order to preserve his artistic legacy using cutting-edge technology.