Alexander Granach
Acting
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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.
Filmography
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
2025
My Buddy
1944
The Seventh Cross
1944
The Hitler Gang
1944
Voice in the Wind
1944
Three Russian Girls
1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
Mission to Moscow
1943
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
Wrecking Crew
1942
Northwest Rangers
1942
Half Way to Shanghai
1942
Joan of Paris
1942
A Man Betrayed
1941
So Ends Our Night
1941
Foreign Correspondent
1940
Ninotchka
1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939
Der Kampf
1936
Gypsies
1936
A Man's a Man
1931
Comradeship
1931
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931
Danton
1931
1914: The Last Days Before the War
1931
The Twelfth Hour
1930
Das letzte Fort
1929
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
1929
Pavement Butterfly
1929
The Adjutant of the Czar
1929
Freie Fahrt
1928
Accident
1928
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
1928
Die berühmte Frau
1927
Svengali
1927
Qualen der Nacht
1926
Die Radio Heirat
1924
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
1923
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923
Warning Shadows
1923
Man by the Roadside
1923
Navarro the Dancer
1923
Paganini
1923
Earth Spirit
1923
Lucrezia Borgia
1922
Nosferatu
1922
Danton
1921
Camera obscura
1921