Alexander Granach
Acting
Born 1890-04-18
Died 1945-03-14
Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
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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
Acting
43 credits
Nosferatu
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ninotchka
Foreign Correspondent
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hangmen Also Die!
Die berühmte Frau
Danton
Mission to Moscow
The Seventh Cross
Joan of Paris
Svengali
Paganini
Comradeship
Three Russian Girls
So Ends Our Night
Northwest Rangers
The Hitler Gang
Lucrezia Borgia
A Man Betrayed
Qualen der Nacht
Pavement Butterfly
Voice in the Wind
1914: The Last Days Before the War
Man by the Roadside
Warning Shadows
Earth Spirit
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
Danton
Half Way to Shanghai
My Buddy
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Wrecking Crew
Navarro the Dancer
Das letzte Fort
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
The Struggle
The Twelfth Hour
Gypsies
The Adjutant of the Czar
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
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