Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach

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: Acting
Birthday: 1890-04-18
Place of Birth: Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
Also Known As: Aleksandr Granakh , Александр Гранах, Schaje Granoch

Movies List of Alexander Granach

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Nosferatu

1922 Movie
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Ninotchka

1939 Movie
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Hangmen Also Die!

1943 Movie
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A Man's a Man

1931 Movie
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Voice in the Wind

1944 Movie
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Comradeship

1931 Movie
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Joan of Paris

1942 Movie
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Warning Shadows

1923 Movie
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The Seventh Cross

1944 Movie
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Half Way to Shanghai

1942 Movie
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Earth Spirit

1923 Movie
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Three Russian Girls

1943 Movie
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Danton

1931 Movie
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Lucrezia Borgia

1922 Movie
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1914

1931 Movie
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Freie Fahrt

1928 Movie
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The Twelfth Hour

1930 Movie
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Gypsies

1936 Movie
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My Buddy

1944 Movie
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Foreign Correspondent

1940 Movie
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Der Kampf

1936 Movie
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Die berühmte Frau

1927 Movie
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Northwest Rangers

1942 Movie
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So Ends Our Night

1941 Movie
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Pavement Butterfly

1929 Movie
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Die Radio Heirat

1924 Movie
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Svengali

1927 Movie
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Das letzte Fort

1929 Movie
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Man by the Roadside

1923 Movie
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Wrecking Crew

1942 Movie
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Qualen der Nacht

1926 Movie
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Paganini

1923 Movie
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Mission to Moscow

1943 Movie
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Navarro the Dancer

1923 Movie
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Accident

1928 Movie
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Camera obscura

1921 Movie
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A Man Betrayed

1941 Movie