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Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach

Actor · Born 1890-04-18 · Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]

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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…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Nosferatu (1922) — Knock
  2. Foreign Correspondent (1940) — Hotel Valet (uncredited)
  3. Ninotchka (1939) — Comrade Kopalski
  4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) — Soldier (uncredited)
  5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) — Paco
  6. Hangmen Also Die! (1943) — Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
  7. The Seventh Cross (1944) — Zillich
  8. Comradeship (1931) — Kasper
  9. Warning Shadows (1923) — Shadowplayer
  10. Mission to Moscow (1943) — Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
  11. Accident (1928)
  12. Joan of Paris (1942) — Gestapo Agent
  13. So Ends Our Night (1941) — The Pole
  14. A Man Betrayed (1941) — T. Amato
  15. Voice in the Wind (1944) — Angelo
  16. The Hitler Gang (1944) — Julius Streicher
  17. Lucrezia Borgia (1922) — ein Gefangener
  18. I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity (1923) — Judas Ischariot
  19. Earth Spirit (1923) — Schigolch
  20. Danton (1931) — Marat
  21. A Man's a Man (1931)
  22. Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (2025) — Knock - ein Häusermakler
  23. The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931) — Redner
  24. Wrecking Crew (1942) — Joe Poska
  25. Danton (1921) — Minor Role (rumored)
  26. Half Way to Shanghai (1942) — Mr. Nikolas
  27. 1914: The Last Days Before the War (1931) — Jaurès' Friend
  28. The Adjutant of the Czar (1929) — Stranger
  29. Northwest Rangers (1942) — Pierre - Man in Casino
  30. Pavement Butterfly (1929) — Coco
  31. Three Russian Girls (1943) — Major Braginski
  32. The Struggle (1936) — Rovelli (uncredited)
  33. Gypsies (1936) — Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
  34. My Buddy (1944) — Tim Oberta
  35. Die berühmte Frau (1927) — Diener bei Alfredo
  36. Flucht in die Fremdenlegion (1929) — Beppo, Legionär
  37. Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland (1928) — Pollaczek
  38. Die Radio Heirat (1924)
  39. Svengali (1927) — Geiger Gecko
  40. Das letzte Fort (1929) — Gestino