Alexander Granach

Acting

Народився 18 квітня 1890, Werbowitz, 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.

Фільмографія

• 2025Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror — Knock - ein Häusermakler
• 1944My Buddy — Tim Oberta
• 1944The Hitler Gang — Julius Streicher
• 1944The Seventh Cross — Zillich
• 1944Voice in the Wind — Angelo
• 1943For Whom the Bell Tolls — Paco
• 1943Hangmen Also Die! — Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
• 1943Mission to Moscow — Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
• 1943Three Russian Girls — Major Braginski
• 1942Half Way to Shanghai — Mr. Nikolas
• 1942Joan of Paris — Gestapo Agent
• 1942Northwest Rangers — Pierre - Man in Casino
• 1942Wrecking Crew — Joe Poska
• 1941A Man Betrayed — T. Amato
• 1941So Ends Our Night — The Pole
• 1940Іноземний кореспондент — Hotel Valet (uncredited)
• 1939The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Soldier (uncredited)
• 1939Ніночка — Comrade Kopalski
• 1936Gypsies — Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
• 1936The Struggle — Rovelli (uncredited)
• 19311914: The Last Days Before the War — Jaurès' Friend
• 1931A Man's a Man
• 1931Comradeship — Kasper
• 1931Danton — Marat
• 1931The Theft of the Mona Lisa — Redner
• 1930The Twelfth Hour — Karsten (Archive footage)
• 1929Das letzte Fort — Gestino
• 1929Flucht in die Fremdenlegion — Beppo, Legionär
• 1929Pavement Butterfly — Coco
• 1929The Adjutant of the Czar — Stranger
• 1928Accident
• 1928Freie Fahrt
• 1928Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland — Pollaczek
• 1927Die berühmte Frau — Diener bei Alfredo
• 1927Svengali — Geiger Gecko
• 1926Qualen der Nacht — Murphy
• 1924Die Radio Heirat
• 1923Earth Spirit — Schigolch
• 1923Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant — Archivar Lindhorst
• 1923I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity — Judas Ischariot
• 1923Man by the Roadside — Shoemaker
• 1923Navarro the Dancer — Clegg
• 1923Paganini — Ferucchio
• 1923Warning Shadows — Shadowplayer
• 1922Lucrezia Borgia — ein Gefangener
• 1922Носферату, симфонiя жаху — Knock
• 1921Camera obscura
• 1921Danton — Minor Role (rumored)