Alexander Granach

Known for ActingBorn 1890-04-18Died 1945-03-14Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]

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.Read more

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Gypsies

Die berühmte Frau

Qualen der Nacht

Man by the Roadside

My Buddy

Flucht in die Fremdenlegion

Das letzte Fort

Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland

Die Radio Heirat

The Adjutant of the Czar

Three Russian Girls

Svengali

Navarro the Dancer

Ninotchka

Nosferatu

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Wrecking Crew

Foreign Correspondent

The Struggle

Hangmen Also Die!

Comradeship

Pavement Butterfly

The Seventh Cross

Paganini

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

Camera obscura

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Joan of Paris

Accident

Warning Shadows

The Hitler Gang

Northwest Rangers

A Man's a Man

So Ends Our Night

Danton

1914: The Last Days Before the War

The Theft of the Mona Lisa

Half Way to Shanghai

Earth Spirit

Mission to Moscow

Danton

Voice in the Wind

A Man Betrayed

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

Lucrezia Borgia

Nosferatu: The First Vampire

The Twelfth Hour