
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.

Der Adjutant des Zaren

吸血鬼ノスフェラトゥ

ニノチカ

ノートルダムの傴僂男

Kameradschaft

海外特派員

死刑執行人もまた死す

The Seventh Cross

Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination

Joan of Paris

誰が為に鐘は鳴る

Polizeibericht Überfall

Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

So Ends Our Night

Three Russian Girls

Northwest Rangers

Großstadtschmetterling

The Hitler Gang

Mann ist Mann

Danton

Danton

Mission to Moscow

Erdgeist

1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand

Wrecking Crew

A Man Betrayed

Der Raub der Mona Lisa

Voice in the Wind

I.N.R.I. - Ein Film der Menschlichkeit

Борцы

Half Way to Shanghai

Lucrezia Borgia

Die zwölfte Stunde

Последний табор

My Buddy

Die berühmte Frau

Svengali

Das letzte Fort

Der Mensch am Wege

Paganini

Die Tänzerin Navarro

Camera obscura