Alexander Granach
Acting
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.
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
as Judas Ischariot
Age 33 (now 54)
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
as Knock - ein Häusermakler
Age 135 (now 54)
Mission to Moscow
as Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
Age 53 (now 54)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Soldier (uncredited)
Age 49 (now 54)
1914: The Last Days Before the War
as Jaurès' Friend
Age 40 (now 54)
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
as Beppo, Legionär
Age 39 (now 54)
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
as Pollaczek
Age 37 (now 54)
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
as Judas Ischariot
Age 33 (now 54)Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Archivar Lindhorst
Age 33 (now 54)
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Also Known As
Aleksandr Granakh , Александр Гранах, Schaje Granoch
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