1890-04-18 ( 134 years old ) in Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
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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.
Movies
Nosferatu: The First Vampire
1998-03-15
My Buddy
1944-10-12
The Seventh Cross
1944-07-24
Voice in the Wind
1944-03-03
Three Russian Girls
1943-12-30
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943-07-12
Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15
Wrecking Crew
1942-11-07
Northwest Rangers
1942-10-28
Half Way to Shanghai
1942-09-18
Joan of Paris
1942-01-20
A Man Betrayed
1941-03-07
So Ends Our Night
1941-02-27
Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939-12-29
Ninotchka
1939-11-23
Der Kampf
1936-09-10
Gypsies
1936-07-29
A Man's a Man
1931-12-31
Comradeship
1931-11-17
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931-08-24
Danton
1931-01-21
1914
1931-01-20
The Twelfth Hour
1930-05-16
Das letzte Fort
1929-07-08
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
1929-06-29
Pavement Butterfly
1929-04-09
The Adjutant of the Czar
1929-02-12
Freie Fahrt
1928-12-07
Accident
1928-11-06
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
1928-01-19
Die berühmte Frau
1927-10-29
Svengali
1927-09-06
Qualen der Nacht
1926-04-23
Die Radio Heirat
1924-03-05
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
1923-12-24
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
1923-11-01
Warning Shadows
1923-10-16
Man by the Roadside
1923-06-11
Navarro the Dancer
1923-04-02
Paganini
1923-03-31
Earth Spirit
1923-02-22
Lucrezia Borgia
1922-10-20
Nosferatu
1922-02-16
Camera obscura
1921-04-23
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