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Alexander Granach‌

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Birthday

calendar1890-04-18

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Alexander Granach

Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]

Alexander Granach

Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1890-04-18

Popularity

star2.4

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.

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Nosferatu

Nosferatu‌
star7.7
calendar 1922

Ninotchka

Ninotchka‌
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calendar 1939

Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!‌
star6.9
calendar 1943

A Man's a Man

A Man's a Man‌
star5.8
calendar 1931

Voice in the Wind

Voice in the Wind‌
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calendar 1944

Comradeship

Comradeship‌
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calendar 1931

Joan of Paris

Joan of Paris‌
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calendar 1942

Warning Shadows

Warning Shadows‌
star6.5
calendar 1923

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross‌
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calendar 1944

Nosferatu: The First Vampire

Nosferatu: The First Vampire‌
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calendar 1998

Half Way to Shanghai

Half Way to Shanghai‌
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calendar 1942

Earth Spirit

Earth Spirit‌
star5.5
calendar 1923

Three Russian Girls

Three Russian Girls‌
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calendar 1943

Danton

Danton‌
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calendar 1931

Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia‌
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calendar 1922

1914

1914‌
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calendar 1931

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame‌
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calendar 1939

Freie Fahrt

Freie Fahrt‌
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calendar 1928

The Theft of the Mona Lisa

The Theft of the Mona Lisa‌
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calendar 1931

The Adjutant of the Czar

The Adjutant of the Czar‌
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calendar 1929

The Twelfth Hour

The Twelfth Hour‌
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calendar 1930

Gypsies

Gypsies‌
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calendar 1936

My Buddy

My Buddy‌
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calendar 1944

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls‌
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calendar 1943

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent‌
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calendar 1940

Der Kampf

Der Kampf‌
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calendar 1936

Die berühmte Frau

Die berühmte Frau‌
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calendar 1927

Flucht in die Fremdenlegion

Flucht in die Fremdenlegion‌
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calendar 1929

Northwest Rangers

Northwest Rangers‌
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calendar 1942

So Ends Our Night

So Ends Our Night‌
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calendar 1941

Pavement Butterfly

Pavement Butterfly‌
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calendar 1929

Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland

Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland‌
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calendar 1928

Die Radio Heirat

Die Radio Heirat‌
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calendar 1924

Svengali

Svengali‌
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calendar 1927

Das letzte Fort

Das letzte Fort‌
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calendar 1929

Man by the Roadside

Man by the Roadside‌
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calendar 1923

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity‌
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calendar 1923

Wrecking Crew

Wrecking Crew‌
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calendar 1942

Qualen der Nacht

Qualen der Nacht‌
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calendar 1926

Paganini

Paganini‌
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calendar 1923

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant‌
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calendar 1923

Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow‌
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calendar 1943

Navarro the Dancer

Navarro the Dancer‌
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calendar 1923

Accident

Accident‌
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calendar 1928

Camera obscura

Camera obscura‌
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calendar 1921

A Man Betrayed

A Man Betrayed‌
star5.5
calendar 1941

NOSFERATU: A Symphony of Horror (Audio Score by idiedtrying.)

NOSFERATU: A Symphony of Horror (Audio Score by idiedtrying.)‌
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calendar 2024

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