Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach

Acting 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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2025 Knock - ein Häusermakler
1944 Angelo
1944 Zillich
1944 Tim Oberta
1944 Julius Streicher
1943 Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
1943 Major Braginski
1943 Paco
1943 Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
1942 Gestapo Agent
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1942 Mr. Nikolas
1942 Pierre - Man in Casino
1942 Joe Poska
1941 The Pole
1941 T. Amato
1940 Hotel Valet (uncredited)
1939 Comrade Kopalski
1939 Soldier (uncredited)
1936 Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
1936 Rovelli
1931 Kasper
1931 Marat
1931 Redner
1930 Karsten
1929 Stranger
1929 Beppo, Legionär
1929 Gestino
1927 Diener bei Alfredo
1927 Geiger Gecko
1926 Murphy
1923 Shadowplayer
1923 Schigolch
1923 Shoemaker
1923 Judas Ischariot
1923 Ferucchio
1923 Archivar Lindhorst
1923 Clegg
1922 Knock
1922 ein Gefangener
1921 Minor Role (rumored)