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Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach

Known for ActingBorn 1890-04-18Died 1945-03-14Werbowitz, 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.Read more

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Gypsies10.0
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Gypsies

1936 · Movie

Die berühmte Frau10.0
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Die berühmte Frau

1927 · Movie

Qualen der Nacht
10.0
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Qualen der Nacht

1926 · Movie

Man by the Roadside10.0
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Man by the Roadside

1923 · Movie

My Buddy9.0
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My Buddy

1944 · Movie

Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
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Flucht in die Fremdenlegion

1929 · Movie

Das letzte Fort9.0
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Das letzte Fort

1929 · Movie

Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
9.0
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Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland

1928 · Movie

Die Radio Heirat
9.0
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Die Radio Heirat

1924 · Movie

The Adjutant of the Czar8.5
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The Adjutant of the Czar

1929 · Movie

Three Russian Girls8.0
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Three Russian Girls

1943 · Movie

Svengali8.0
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Svengali

1927 · Movie

Navarro the Dancer8.0
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Navarro the Dancer

1923 · Movie

Nosferatu7.7
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Nosferatu

1922 · Movie

Ninotchka7.5
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Ninotchka

1939 · Movie

The Hunchback of Notre Dame7.3
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939 · Movie

Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror6.4
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Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

2025 · Movie

Wrecking Crew7.0
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Wrecking Crew

1942 · Movie

Foreign Correspondent7.0
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Foreign Correspondent

1940 · Movie

Der Kampf7.0
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Der Kampf

1936 · Movie

Hangmen Also Die!6.9
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Hangmen Also Die!

1943 · Movie

Comradeship7.0
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Comradeship

1931 · Movie

Pavement Butterfly7.0
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Pavement Butterfly

1929 · Movie

The Seventh Cross6.8
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The Seventh Cross

1944 · Movie

Paganini7.0
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Paganini

1923 · Movie

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
7.0
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Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

1923 · Movie

Camera obscura7.0
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Camera obscura

1921 · Movie

For Whom the Bell Tolls6.5
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943 · Movie

Joan of Paris6.5
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Joan of Paris

1942 · Movie

Warning Shadows6.6
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Warning Shadows

1923 · Movie

Accident6.5
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Accident

1928 · Movie

Northwest Rangers6.3
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Northwest Rangers

1942 · Movie

The Hitler Gang6.3
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The Hitler Gang

1944 · Movie

So Ends Our Night6.3
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So Ends Our Night

1941 · Movie

A Man's a Man6.4
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A Man's a Man

1931 · Movie

Danton6.5
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Danton

1921 · Movie

1914: The Last Days Before the War6.3
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1914: The Last Days Before the War

1931 · Movie

The Theft of the Mona Lisa6.3
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The Theft of the Mona Lisa

1931 · Movie

Half Way to Shanghai6.0
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Half Way to Shanghai

1942 · Movie

Earth Spirit6.0
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Earth Spirit

1923 · Movie

Mission to Moscow5.7
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Mission to Moscow

1943 · Movie

Danton5.8
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Danton

1931 · Movie

A Man Betrayed5.6
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A Man Betrayed

1941 · Movie

Voice in the Wind5.5
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Voice in the Wind

1944 · Movie

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity5.6
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I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

1923 · Movie

Lucrezia Borgia5.1
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Lucrezia Borgia

1922 · Movie

The Twelfth Hour
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The Twelfth Hour

1930 · Movie

Freie Fahrt
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Freie Fahrt

1928 · Movie