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person_profile-Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach Died at age: 54

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Alexander Granach

Date of Birth:

Apr 18, 1890

Country of birth:

Austria-Hungary

Died:

Mar 14, 1945

Biography of

Alexander Granach

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Alexander Granach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s who immigrated to the United States in 1938.

    Granach was born Jessaja Gronach in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Horodenka district, Austrian Galicia then, now Verbivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Granach entered films in 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was the vampire classic Nosferatu (1922), in which the actor was cast as Knock, the lunatic counterpart to Renfield, effectively a substitute name for Dracula. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as Kameradschaft (1931).

    The Jewish Granach fled to the Soviet Union when Hitler came to power. When the Soviet Union also proved inhospitable, he settled in Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Granach proved indispensable to film makers during the war years, effectively portraying both dedicated Nazis (he was Julius Streicher in The Hitler Gang, 1944) and loyal anti-fascists. Perhaps his best role was as Gestapo Inspector Alois Gruber in Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die! (1943). His last film appearance was in MGM's The Seventh Cross (1944), in which almost the entire supporting cast was prominent European refugees.

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Filmography of

Alexander Granach

Found 35 Movies in total

Nosferatu: The First Vampire

Knock - ein Häusermakler ( Actor )

... 1998

My Buddy

Tim Oberta ( Actor )

... 1944

The Seventh Cross

Zillich ( Actor )

... 1944

Voice in the Wind

Angelo ( Actor )

... 1944

Three Russian Girls

Major Braginski ( Actor )

... 1943

... 1943

Mission to Moscow

Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Hangmen Also Die!

Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber ( Actor )

... 1943

Wrecking Crew

Joe Poska ( Actor )

... 1942

Northwest Rangers

Pierre - Man in Casino ( Actor )

... 1942

Half Way to Shanghai

Mr. Nikolas ( Actor )

... 1942

Joan of Paris

Gestapo Agent ( Actor )

... 1942

A Man Betrayed

T. Amato ( Actor )

... 1941

So Ends Our Night

The Pole ( Actor )

... 1941

Foreign Correspondent

Hotel Valet (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Soldier (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Ninotchka

Comrade Kopalski ( Actor )

... 1939

Der Kampf

Rovelli ( Actor )

... 1936

Gypsies

Danilo ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1931

Comradeship

Kasper ( Actor )

... 1931

... 1931

Danton

Marat ( Actor )

... 1931

1914

Jaurès' Friend ( Actor )

... 1931

The Twelfth Hour

Karsten ( Actor )

... 1930

Das letzte Fort

Gestino ( Actor )

... 1929

Pavement Butterfly

Coco ( Actor )

... 1929

The Adjutant of the Czar

Stranger ( Actor )

... 1929

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

Judas Ischariot ( Actor )

... 1923

Warning Shadows

Shadowplayer ( Actor )

... 1923

Navarro the Dancer

Clegg ( Actor )

... 1923

Paganini

Ferucchio ( Actor )

... 1923

Earth Spirit

Schigolch ( Actor )

... 1923

Lucrezia Borgia

ein Gefangener ( Actor )

... 1922

Nosferatu

Knock ( Actor )

... 1922