Alexander Granach
Age: 51 | From: Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Person Details
Birthday: 1893-04-18 03:08:48
Death: 1945-03-14 03:08:48
Aliases: Aleksandr Granakh
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
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Movie Involvements: 37
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Nosferatu
(1922) Knock
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1939) Soldier (uncredited)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1943) Paco
Hangmen Also Die!
(1943) Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Foreign Correspondent
(1940) Hotel Valet (uncredited)
The Seventh Cross
(1944) Zillich
Mission to Moscow
(1943) Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
Comradeship
(1931) KasperActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Knock - ein Häusermakler | |
| 1944 | Tim Oberta | |
| Zillich | ||
| Angelo | ||
| 1943 | Major Braginski | |
| Paco | ||
| Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited) | ||
| Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber | ||
| 1942 | Joe Poska | |
| Pierre - Man in Casino | ||
| Mr. Nikolas | ||
| Gestapo Agent | ||
| 1941 | T. Amato | |
| The Pole | ||
| 1940 | Hotel Valet (uncredited) | |
| 1939 | Soldier (uncredited) | |
| Comrade Kopalski | ||
| 1936 | Rovelli | |
| Danilo | ||
| 1931 | N/A | |
| Kasper | ||
| Redner | ||
| Marat | ||
| Jaurès' Friend | ||
| 1929 | Gestino | |
| Beppo, Legionär | ||
| Coco | ||
| Stranger | ||
| 1928 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Pollaczek | ||
| 1927 | Diener bei Alfredo | |
| Geiger Gecko | ||
| 1926 | Murphy | |
| 1924 | N/A | |
| 1923 | Judas Ischariot | |
| Archivar Lindhorst | ||
| Shadowplayer | ||
| Shoemaker | ||
| Clegg | ||
| Ferucchio | ||
| Schigolch | ||
| 1922 | ein Gefangener | |
| Knock | ||
| 1921 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
