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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Character:Knock - ein Häusermakler
Release Date:02/10/2025
My Buddy
Character:Tim Oberta
Release Date:12/10/1944
The Seventh Cross
Character:Zillich
Release Date:24/07/1944
The Hitler Gang
Character:Julius Streicher
Release Date:26/04/1944
Voice in the Wind
Character:Angelo
Release Date:03/03/1944
Three Russian Girls
Character:Major Braginski
Release Date:30/12/1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Character:Paco
Release Date:12/07/1943
Mission to Moscow
Character:Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
Release Date:29/04/1943
Hangmen Also Die!
Character:Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Release Date:01/04/1943
Wrecking Crew
Character:Joe Poska
Release Date:07/11/1942
Northwest Rangers
Character:Pierre - Man in Casino
Release Date:28/10/1942
Half Way to Shanghai
Character:Mr. Nikolas
Release Date:18/09/1942
Joan of Paris
Character:Gestapo Agent
Release Date:20/01/1942
A Man Betrayed
Character:T. Amato
Release Date:07/03/1941
So Ends Our Night
Character:The Pole
Release Date:27/02/1941
Foreign Correspondent
Character:Hotel Valet (uncredited)
Release Date:16/08/1940
Ninotchka
Character:Comrade Kopalski
Release Date:16/11/1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character:Soldier (uncredited)
Release Date:31/08/1939
Der Kampf
Character:Rovelli
Release Date:10/09/1936
Gypsies
Character:Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader
Release Date:29/07/1936
A Man's a Man
Character:
Release Date:31/12/1931
Comradeship
Character:Kasper
Release Date:17/11/1931
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Character:Redner
Release Date:24/08/1931
Danton
Character:Marat
Release Date:21/01/1931
1914: The Last Days Before the War
Character:Jaurès' Friend
Release Date:20/01/1931
The Twelfth Hour
Character:Karsten
Release Date:16/05/1930
Das letzte Fort
Character:Gestino
Release Date:08/07/1929
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
Character:Beppo, Legionär
Release Date:29/06/1929
Pavement Butterfly
Character:Coco
Release Date:09/04/1929
The Adjutant of the Czar
Character:Stranger
Release Date:12/02/1929
Freie Fahrt
Character:
Release Date:07/12/1928
Accident
Character:
Release Date:06/11/1928
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
Character:Pollaczek
Release Date:19/01/1928
Die berühmte Frau
Character:Diener bei Alfredo
Release Date:29/10/1927
Svengali
Character:Geiger Gecko
Release Date:06/09/1927
Qualen der Nacht
Character:Murphy
Release Date:23/04/1926
Die Radio Heirat
Character:
Release Date:05/03/1924
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
Character:Judas Ischariot
Release Date:24/12/1923
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
Character:Archivar Lindhorst
Release Date:01/11/1923
Warning Shadows
Character:Shadowplayer
Release Date:16/10/1923
Man by the Roadside
Character:Shoemaker
Release Date:11/06/1923
Navarro the Dancer
Character:Clegg
Release Date:02/04/1923
Paganini
Character:Ferucchio
Release Date:31/03/1923
Earth Spirit
Character:Schigolch
Release Date:22/02/1923
Lucrezia Borgia
Character:ein Gefangener
Release Date:20/10/1922
Nosferatu
Character:Knock
Release Date:16/02/1922
Danton
Character:Minor Role (rumored)
Release Date:03/05/1921
Camera obscura
Character:
Release Date:23/04/1921
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