1899-12-22 Düsseldorf, Germany
Gustaf Gründgens (22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. His career continued unimpeded through the years of the Nazi regime; the extent to which this can be considered as deliberate collaboration with the Nazis is hotly disputed. His best known roles were that of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust in 1956/57, and as "Der Schränker" (The Safecracker) who is the chief judge of the kangaroo court presiding over Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's M.
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Hitlers Hollywood | Various Roles (archive footage) | 2017-02-23 |
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A Physical History of 'M' | Schränker (archive) | 2015-04-14 |
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Faust | Mephisto | 1960-09-30 |
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Das Glas Wasser | Sir Henry St. John | 1960-07-05 |
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Friedemann Bach | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | 1941-06-25 |
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Ohm Krüger | Joseph Chamberlain | 1941-01-02 |
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Tanz auf dem Vulkan | Jean-Gaspard Debureau | 1938-11-30 |
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Kapriolen | Jack Warren | 1937-08-09 |
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Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung | Lord George Illingworth | 1936-10-26 |
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Hundert Tage | Fouché | 1935-03-22 |
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Pygmalion | Professor Higgins | 1935-09-01 |
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Das Mädchen Johanna | König Karl VII. von Frankreich | 1935-04-26 |
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Das Erbe von Pretoria | Eugen Schliebach | 1934-10-18 |
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So endete eine Liebe | Count Metternich | 1934-10-17 |
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Schwarzer Jäger Johanna | Dr. Frost, politischer Agent | 1934-09-05 |
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Une histoire d'amour | Baron von Eggersdorf | 1933-03-10 |
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Der Tunnel | Mr. Woolf | 1933-10-26 |
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Le Tunnel | Woolf | 1933-12-15 |
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Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez | Alexander | 1933-09-21 |
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Liebelei | Baron v. Eggersdorff | 1933-03-10 |
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Die Gräfin von Monte-Christo | Der 'Baron' Hochstapler | 1932-04-21 |
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Teilnehmer antwortet nicht | Fahrlehrer | 1932-08-18 |
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Der Raub der Mona Lisa | Unbekannter | 1931-08-24 |
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Yorck | Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg | 1931-12-23 |
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Luise, Königin von Preußen | König Friedrich Wilhelm III | 1931-12-04 |
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M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder | Schränker | 1931-05-11 |
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Danton | Robespierre | 1931-01-21 |
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Ich glaub' nie mehr an eine Frau | Jean | 1930-02-03 |
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Hokuspokus | Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke | 1930-07-10 |
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Brand in der Oper | Otto van Lingen | 1930-10-13 |
