7.8
7.8
The Adjutant of the Czar
1929
as Stranger
Alexander Granach
Acting
Born:April 18, 1890
Died:March 14, 1945(aged 54)
Birthplace:Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
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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 (43 movies)
7.7
7.7
Nosferatu
1922
as Knock
7.5
7.5
Ninotchka
1939
as Comrade Kopalski
7.0
7.0
Comradeship
1931
as Kasper
6.9
6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
6.7
6.7
The Seventh Cross
1944
as Zillich
6.5
6.5
Warning Shadows
1923
as Shadowplayer
6.5
6.5
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Paco
6.5
6.5
Joan of Paris
1942
as Gestapo Agent
6.4
6.4
Accident
1928
6.4
6.4
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
2025
as Knock - ein Häusermakler
6.2
6.2
So Ends Our Night
1941
as The Pole
6.0
6.0
Three Russian Girls
1943
as Major Braginski
6.0
6.0
The Hitler Gang
1944
as Julius Streicher
6.0
6.0
Pavement Butterfly
1929
as Coco
5.8
5.8
A Man's a Man
1931
5.6
5.6
Danton
1931
as Marat
5.5
5.5
Earth Spirit
1923
as Schigolch
5.5
5.5
Wrecking Crew
1942
as Joe Poska
5.4
5.4
A Man Betrayed
1941
as T. Amato
5.3
5.3
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931
as Redner
5.2
5.2
Voice in the Wind
1944
as Angelo
5.1
5.1
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
1923
as Judas Ischariot
5.0
5.0
Nosferatu: The First Vampire
1998
as Knock - ein Häusermakler
5.0
5.0
Der Kampf
1936
as Rovelli
4.4
4.4
Lucrezia Borgia
1922
as ein Gefangener
Svengali
1927
as Geiger Gecko
Die Radio Heirat
1924
Man by the Roadside
1923
as Shoemaker
Paganini
1923
as Ferucchio
Qualen der Nacht
1926
as Murphy
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923
as Archivar Lindhorst
Camera obscura
1921
Freie Fahrt
1928
The Twelfth Hour
1930
as Karsten
Half Way to Shanghai
1942
as Mr. Nikolas
Navarro the Dancer
1923
as Clegg
Gypsies
1936
as Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
My Buddy
1944
as Tim Oberta
Die berühmte Frau
1927
as Diener bei Alfredo
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
1929
as Beppo, Legionär
Das letzte Fort
1929
as Gestino
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
1928
as Pollaczek
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