Alexander Granach
49 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 18, 1890
- Died
- Mar 14, 1945 (age 54)
- Place of birth
- Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
- Also known as
- Aleksandr Granakh · Александр Гранах · Schaje Granoch
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Known for
Alexander Granach: movies and TV shows
Acting (49)
- 2025 Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
as Knock - ein Häusermakler
- 1998 Nosferatu: The First Vampire
as Knock
- 1944 My Buddy
as Tim Oberta
- 1944 The Seventh Cross
as Zillich
- 1944 The Hitler Gang
as Julius Streicher
- 1944 Voice in the Wind
as Angelo
- 1943 Three Russian Girls
as Major Braginski
- 1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Paco
- 1943 Mission to Moscow
as Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
- 1943 Hangmen Also Die!
as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
- 1942 Wrecking Crew
as Joe Poska
- 1942 Northwest Rangers
as Pierre - Man in Casino
- 1942 Half Way to Shanghai
as Mr. Nikolas
- 1942 Joan of Paris
as Gestapo Agent
- 1941 A Man Betrayed
as T. Amato
- 1941 So Ends Our Night
as The Pole
- 1940 Foreign Correspondent
as Hotel Valet (uncredited)
- 1939 Ninotchka
as Comrade Kopalski
- 1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Soldier (uncredited)
- 1936 The Struggle
as Rovelli (uncredited)
- 1936 Gypsies
as Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
- 1931
- 1931 Comradeship
as Kasper
- 1931 The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Redner
- 1931 Danton
as Marat
- 1931 1914: The Last Days Before the War
as Jaurès' Friend
- 1930 The Twelfth Hour
as Karsten (Archive footage)
- 1929 Das letzte Fort
as Gestino
- 1929 Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
as Beppo, Legionär
- 1929 Pavement Butterfly
as Coco
- 1929 The Adjutant of the Czar
as Stranger
- 1928
- 1928
- 1928 Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
as Pollaczek
- 1927 Die berühmte Frau
as Diener bei Alfredo
- 1927 Svengali
as Geiger Gecko
- 1926 Qualen der Nacht
as Murphy
- 1924
- 1923 I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
as Judas Ischariot
- 1923 Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Archivar Lindhorst
- 1923 Warning Shadows
as Shadowplayer
- 1923 Man by the Roadside
as Shoemaker
- 1923 Navarro the Dancer
as Clegg
- 1923 Paganini
as Ferucchio
- 1923 Earth Spirit
as Schigolch
- 1922 Lucrezia Borgia
as ein Gefangener
- 1922 Nosferatu
as Knock
- 1921 Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
- 1921