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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.
Año | Título | Personaje | Valoración |
---|---|---|---|
1998 | Nosferatu: The First Vampire | Knock - ein Häusermakler | ★★★☆☆ |
1944 | Voice in the Wind | Angelo | ★★★☆☆ |
1944 | La séptima cruz | Zillich | ★★★☆☆ |
1944 | My Buddy | Tim Oberta | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1943 | Los verdugos también mueren | Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber | ★★★☆☆ |
1943 | Three Russian Girls | Major Braginski | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1943 | Por quién doblan las campanas | Paco | ★★★☆☆ |
1943 | Misión en Moscú | Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited) | ★★★☆☆ |
1942 | Juana de París | Gestapo Agent | ★★★☆☆ |
1942 | Half Way to Shanghai | Mr. Nikolas | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1942 | Northwest Rangers | Pierre - Man in Casino | ★★★☆☆ |
1942 | Wrecking Crew | Joe Poska | ★★★☆☆ |
1941 | Así acaba nuestra noche | The Pole | ★★★☆☆ |
1941 | La rueda de la fortuna | T. Amato | ★★★☆☆ |
1940 | Enviado Especial | Hotel Valet (uncredited) | ★★★★☆ |
1939 | Ninotchka | Comrade Kopalski | ★★★★☆ |
1939 | Esmeralda la Zíngara | Soldier (uncredited) | ★★★★☆ |
1931 | Carbón | Kasper | ★★★★☆ |
1931 | Danton | Marat | ★★★☆☆ |
1931 | 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand | Jaurès' Friend | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1931 | Der Raub der Mona Lisa | Redner | ★★★☆☆ |
1931 | Mann ist Mann | ★★★☆☆ | |
1930 | Die zwölfte Stunde | Karsten | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1929 | Der Adjutant des Zaren | Stranger | ★★★★☆ |
1929 | Flucht in die Fremdenlegion | Beppo, Legionär | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1929 | Großstadtschmetterling | Coco | ★★★☆☆ |
1929 | Das letzte Fort | Gestino | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1928 | Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland | Pollaczek | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1928 | Polizeibericht Überfall | ★★★☆☆ | |
1928 | Freie Fahrt | ☆☆☆☆☆ | |
1927 | Die berühmte Frau | Diener bei Alfredo | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1927 | Svengali | Geiger Gecko | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1926 | Qualen der Nacht | Murphy | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1924 | Die Radio Heirat | ☆☆☆☆☆ | |
1923 | Sombras | Shadowplayer | ★★★☆☆ |
1923 | Erdgeist | Schigolch | ★★★☆☆ |
1923 | Der Mensch am Wege | Shoemaker | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1923 | I.N.R.I. - Ein Film der Menschlichkeit | Judas Ischariot | ★★☆☆☆ |
1923 | Paganini | Ferucchio | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1923 | Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant | Archivar Lindhorst | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1923 | Die Tänzerin Navarro | Clegg | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
1922 | Nosferatu | Knock | ★★★★☆ |
1922 | Lucrezia Borgia | ein Gefangener | ★★☆☆☆ |
1921 | Camera obscura | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Películas destacadas de Alexander Granach
Estas son las películas más destacadas en las que ha trabajdo: