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Alexander Granach
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Alexander Granach
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1890-04-18,Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

7.7

Nosferatu
1922-02-16

7.5

Ninotchka
1939-11-23

Hangmen Also Die!

6.9

Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15

5.8

A Man's a Man
1931-12-31

Voice in the Wind

5.2

Voice in the Wind
1944-03-03

7

Comradeship
1931-11-17

6.4

Joan of Paris
1942-01-20

Warning Shadows

6.5

Warning Shadows
1923-10-16

The Seventh Cross

6.7

The Seventh Cross
1944-07-24

Nosferatu: The First Vampire

5

Nosferatu: The First Vampire
1998-03-15

Half Way to Shanghai

0

Half Way to Shanghai
1942-09-18

5.5

Earth Spirit
1923-02-22

Three Russian Girls

0

Three Russian Girls
1943-12-30

5

Danton
1931-01-21

Lucrezia Borgia

4.4

Lucrezia Borgia
1922-10-20

0

1914
1931-01-20

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

7.2

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939-12-29

0

Freie Fahrt
1928-12-07

The Theft of the Mona Lisa

5.3

The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931-08-24

The Adjutant of the Czar

7.8

The Adjutant of the Czar
1929-02-12

The Twelfth Hour

0

The Twelfth Hour
1930-05-16

0

Gypsies
1936-07-29

0

My Buddy
1944-10-12

For Whom the Bell Tolls

6.529

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943-07-12

Foreign Correspondent

7

Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16

5

Der Kampf
1936-09-10

Die berühmte Frau

0

Die berühmte Frau
1927-10-29

Flucht in die Fremdenlegion

0

Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
1929-06-29

Northwest Rangers

6

Northwest Rangers
1942-10-28

So Ends Our Night

6

So Ends Our Night
1941-02-27

Pavement Butterfly

6

Pavement Butterfly
1929-04-09

Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland

0

Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
1928-01-19

Die Radio Heirat

0

Die Radio Heirat
1924-03-05

0

Svengali
1927-09-06

Das letzte Fort

0

Das letzte Fort
1929-07-08

Man by the Roadside

0

Man by the Roadside
1923-06-11

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

5.1

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
1923-12-24

5.5

Wrecking Crew
1942-11-07

Qualen der Nacht

0

Qualen der Nacht
1926-04-23

0

Paganini
1923-03-31

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

0

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923-11-01

Mission to Moscow

5.2

Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29

Navarro the Dancer

0

Navarro the Dancer
1923-04-02

6.7

Accident
1928-11-06

0

Camera obscura
1921-04-23

5.5

A Man Betrayed
1941-03-07