1890-04-18 Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
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.
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Nosferatu: The First Vampire | Knock - ein Häusermakler | 1998-03-15 |
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The Seventh Cross | Zillich | 1944-07-24 |
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Voice in the Wind | Angelo | 1944-03-03 |
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My Buddy | Tim Oberta | 1944-10-12 |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls | Paco | 1943-07-12 |
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Three Russian Girls | Major Braginski | 1943-12-30 |
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Mission to Moscow | Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited) | 1943-04-29 |
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Hangmen Also Die! | Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber | 1943-04-15 |
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Northwest Rangers | Pierre - Man in Casino | 1942-10-28 |
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Joan of Paris | Gestapo Agent | 1942-01-20 |
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Half Way to Shanghai | Mr. Nikolas | 1942-09-18 |
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Wrecking Crew | Joe Poska | 1942-11-07 |
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A Man Betrayed | T. Amato | 1941-03-07 |
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So Ends Our Night | The Pole | 1941-02-27 |
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Foreign Correspondent | Hotel Valet (uncredited) | 1940-08-16 |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Soldier (uncredited) | 1939-12-29 |
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Ninotchka | Comrade Kopalski | 1939-11-23 |
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Последний табор | Danilo | 1936-07-29 |
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Борцы | Rovelli | 1936-09-10 |
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1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand | Jaurès' Friend | 1931-01-20 |
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Danton | Marat | 1931-01-21 |
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Der Raub der Mona Lisa | Redner | 1931-08-24 |
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Mann ist Mann | 1931-12-31 | |
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Kameradschaft | Kasper | 1931-11-17 |
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Die zwölfte Stunde | Karsten | 1930-05-16 |
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Flucht in die Fremdenlegion | Beppo, Legionär | 1929-06-29 |
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Das letzte Fort | Gestino | 1929-07-08 |
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Großstadtschmetterling | Coco | 1929-04-09 |
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Der Adjutant des Zaren | Stranger | 1929-02-12 |
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Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland | Pollaczek | 1928-01-19 |
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Polizeibericht Überfall | 1928-11-06 | |
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Freie Fahrt | 1928-12-07 | |
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Die berühmte Frau | Diener bei Alfredo | 1927-10-29 |
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Svengali | Geiger Gecko | 1927-09-06 |
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Qualen der Nacht | Murphy | 1926-04-23 |
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Die Radio Heirat | 1924-03-05 | |
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Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant | Archivar Lindhorst | 1923-11-01 |
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Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination | Shadowplayer | 1923-10-16 |
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Die Tänzerin Navarro | Clegg | 1923-04-02 |
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I.N.R.I. - Ein Film der Menschlichkeit | Judas Ischariot | 1923-12-24 |
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Paganini | Ferucchio | 1923-03-31 |
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Der Mensch am Wege | Shoemaker | 1923-06-11 |
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Erdgeist | Schigolch | 1923-02-22 |
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens | Knock | 1922-02-16 |
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Lucrezia Borgia | ein Gefangener | 1922-10-20 |
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Camera obscura | 1921-04-23 |
