Cast
Alexander Granach
Acting
Cast
Alexander Granach
Known for
Acting
Born
1890-04-18
From
Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
Died
1945-03-14
Also known as Aleksandr Granakh , Александр Гранах, Schaje Granoch
Biography
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.
★7.7
MOVIE1922
Nosferatu
as Knock
★7.3
MOVIE1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Soldier (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Foreign Correspondent
as Hotel Valet (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1939
Ninotchka
as Comrade Kopalski
★6.5
MOVIE1928
Accident
★6.5
MOVIE1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Paco
★6.9
MOVIE1943
Hangmen Also Die!
as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
★7.0
MOVIE1921
Camera obscura
★6.5
MOVIE1921
Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
★8.0
MOVIE1927
Svengali
as Geiger Gecko
★6.8
MOVIE1944
The Seventh Cross
as Zillich
★8.0
MOVIE1943
Three Russian Girls
as Major Braginski
★10.0
MOVIE1927
Die berühmte Frau
as Diener bei Alfredo
★7.0
MOVIE1923
Paganini
as Ferucchio
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Mission to Moscow
as Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1941
A Man Betrayed
as T. Amato
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
as Pollaczek
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Comradeship
as Kasper
★8.0
MOVIE1923
Navarro the Dancer
as Clegg
★6.4
MOVIE1931
A Man's a Man
★9.0
MOVIE1924
Die Radio Heirat
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Joan of Paris
as Gestapo Agent
★6.6
MOVIE1923
Warning Shadows
as Shadowplayer
★10.0
MOVIE1926
Qualen der Nacht
as Murphy
★6.3
MOVIE1931
1914: The Last Days Before the War
as Jaurès' Friend
★8.5
MOVIE1929
The Adjutant of the Czar
as Stranger
★10.0
MOVIE1923
Man by the Roadside
as Shoemaker
★6.3
MOVIE1944
The Hitler Gang
as Julius Streicher
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
as Beppo, Legionär
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Northwest Rangers
as Pierre - Man in Casino
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Half Way to Shanghai
as Mr. Nikolas
★9.0
MOVIE1944
My Buddy
as Tim Oberta
★6.3
MOVIE1941
So Ends Our Night
as The Pole
★6.4
MOVIE2025
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
as Knock - ein Häusermakler
★5.8
MOVIE1931
Danton
as Marat
★6.3
MOVIE1931
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Redner
★5.6
MOVIE1923
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
as Judas Ischariot
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Wrecking Crew
as Joe Poska
★7.0
MOVIE1936
The Struggle
as Rovelli
★10.0
MOVIE1936
Gypsies
as Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
MOVIE1930
The Twelfth Hour
as Karsten (Archive footage)
★5.1
MOVIE1922
Lucrezia Borgia
as ein Gefangener
★5.5
MOVIE1944
Voice in the Wind
as Angelo
★7.0
MOVIE1923
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Archivar Lindhorst
★6.0
MOVIE1923
Earth Spirit
as Schigolch
★9.0
MOVIE1929
Das letzte Fort
as Gestino
★7.0
MOVIE1929
Pavement Butterfly
as Coco
MOVIE1928