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.
Nosferatu
as Knock
Foreign Correspondent
as Hotel Valet (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Soldier (uncredited)
Ninotchka
as Comrade Kopalski
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Paco
Svengali
as Geiger Gecko
Wrecking Crew
as Joe Poska
Hangmen Also Die!
as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Accident
Comradeship
as Kasper
The Hitler Gang
as Julius Streicher
Mission to Moscow
as Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
The Seventh Cross
as Zillich
Lucrezia Borgia
as ein Gefangener
Joan of Paris
as Gestapo Agent
So Ends Our Night
as The Pole
Danton
as Marat
Northwest Rangers
as Pierre - Man in Casino
A Man Betrayed
as T. Amato
My Buddy
as Tim Oberta
Half Way to Shanghai
as Mr. Nikolas
Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
1914: The Last Days Before the War
as Jaurès' Friend
Gypsies
as Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
The Twelfth Hour
as Karsten
Man by the Roadside
as Shoemaker
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Redner
The Adjutant of the Czar
as Stranger
Warning Shadows
as Shadowplayer
Earth Spirit
as Schigolch
Three Russian Girls
as Major Braginski
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
as Judas Ischariot
Voice in the Wind
as Angelo
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
as Knock - ein Häusermakler
Pavement Butterfly
as Coco
A Man's a Man
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
as Pollaczek
Die berühmte Frau
as Diener bei Alfredo
Die Radio Heirat
Paganini
as Ferucchio
Der Kampf
as Rovelli
Navarro the Dancer
as Clegg
Das letzte Fort
as Gestino
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Archivar Lindhorst
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
as Beppo, Legionär
Camera obscura
Freie Fahrt
Qualen der Nacht
as Murphy