Gustaf Gründgens
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 22, 1899
- Died
- October 7, 1963 (aged 63)
- Birthplace
- Düsseldorf, Germany
Biography
Gustaf Gründgens (22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. His career continued unimpeded through the years of the Nazi regime; the extent to which this can be considered as deliberate collaboration with the Nazis is hotly disputed. His best known roles were that of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust in 1956/57, and as "Der Schränker" (The Safecracker) who is the chief judge of the kangaroo court presiding over Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's M.
Known For
Filmography
Hitler's Hollywood
Movie · as Various Roles (archive footage)
A Physical History of 'M'
Movie · as Schränker (archive footage)
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Zur Person
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Faust
Movie · as Mephisto
A Glass of Water
Movie · as Sir Henry St. John
Friedemann Bach
Movie · as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Uncle Krüger
Movie · as Joseph Chamberlain
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Movie · as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
Love in Stunt Flying
Movie · as Jack Warren
A Woman of No Importance
Movie · as Lord George Illingworth
Joan of Arc
Movie · as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
Pygmalion
Movie · as Professor Higgins
Hundert Tage
Movie · as Fouché
Black Fighter Johanna
Movie · as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
So Ended a Great Love
Movie · as Count Metternich
Inheritance in Pretoria
Movie · as Eugen Schliebach
Der Tunnel
Movie · as Mr. Woolf
Liebelei
Movie · as Baron v. Eggersdorff
Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez
Movie · as Alexander
Le Tunnel
Movie · as Woolf
Love Story
Movie · as Baron von Eggersdorf
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Movie · as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
Movie · as Fahrlehrer
M
Movie · as Schränker
Danton
Movie · as Robespierre
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Movie · as Unbekannter
Yorck
Movie · as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
Luise, Queen of Prussia
Movie · as König Friedrich Wilhelm III
Hokuspokus
Movie · as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
Never Trust a Woman
Movie · as Jean
Fire in the Opera House
Movie · as Otto van Lingen
Va Banque
Movie · as John James Brown, Privatdetektiv