Alexander Granach
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 18, 1890
- Died
- March 14, 1945 (aged 54)
- Birthplace
- Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
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.
Known For
Filmography
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Movie · as Knock - ein Häusermakler
Nosferatu: The First Vampire
Movie · as Knock
Voice in the Wind
Movie · as Angelo
The Seventh Cross
Movie · as Zillich
My Buddy
Movie · as Tim Oberta
The Hitler Gang
Movie · as Julius Streicher
Hangmen Also Die!
Movie · as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Three Russian Girls
Movie · as Major Braginski
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie · as Paco
Mission to Moscow
Movie · as Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
Joan of Paris
Movie · as Gestapo Agent
Half Way to Shanghai
Movie · as Mr. Nikolas
Northwest Rangers
Movie · as Pierre - Man in Casino
Wrecking Crew
Movie · as Joe Poska
So Ends Our Night
Movie · as The Pole
A Man Betrayed
Movie · as T. Amato
Foreign Correspondent
Movie · as Hotel Valet (uncredited)
Ninotchka
Movie · as Comrade Kopalski
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie · as Soldier (uncredited)
Gypsies
Movie · as Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
The Struggle
Movie · as Rovelli (uncredited)
A Man's a Man
Movie
Kameradschaft
Movie · as Kasper
Danton
Movie · as Marat
1914: The Last Days Before the War
Movie · as Jaurès' Friend
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Movie · as Redner
The Twelfth Hour
Movie · as Karsten (Archive footage)
The Adjutant of the Czar
Movie · as Stranger
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
Movie · as Beppo, Legionär
Pavement Butterfly
Movie · as Coco
Das letzte Fort
Movie · as Gestino
Freie Fahrt
Movie
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
Movie · as Pollaczek
Accident
Movie
Die berühmte Frau
Movie · as Diener bei Alfredo
Svengali
Movie · as Geiger Gecko
Qualen der Nacht
Movie · as Murphy
Die Radio Heirat
Movie
Warning Shadows
Movie · as Shadowplayer
Earth Spirit
Movie · as Schigolch
Man by the Roadside
Movie · as Shoemaker
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
Movie · as Judas Ischariot
Paganini
Movie · as Ferucchio
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Movie · as Archivar Lindhorst
Navarro the Dancer
Movie · as Clegg
Nosferatu
Movie · as Knock
Lucrezia Borgia
Movie · as ein Gefangener
Camera obscura
Movie
Danton
Movie · as Minor Role (rumored)