Gustaf Gründgens
Birthday
1899/12/22
Day of death
1963/10/07 (63 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
Also know as
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Biography
Gustaf Gründgens (22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. His career continued unimpeded through the years of the Nazi regime; the extent to which this can be considered as deliberate collaboration with the Nazis is hotly disputed. His best known roles were that of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust in 1956/57, and as...Read more
Acting
(1931) M
as Schränker
(1933) Der Tunnel
as Mr. Woolf
(2017) Hitler's Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
(1933) Liebelei
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
(1960) Faust
as Mephisto
(1932) The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
(1938) Tanz auf dem Vulkan
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
(1931) Danton
as Robespierre
(1937) Love in Stunt Flying
as Jack Warren
(1941) Friedemann Bach
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
(1935) Joan of Arc
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
(1930) Hokuspokus
as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
(1931) The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Unbekannter
(1934) Black Fighter Johanna
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
(1960) A Glass of Water
as Sir Henry St. John
(1931) Yorck
as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
(1935) Pygmalion
as Professor Higgins
(1941) Uncle Krüger
as Joseph Chamberlain
(1932) Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
as Fahrlehrer
(1936) Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
as Lord George Illingworth
(1934) So Ended a Great Love
as Count Metternich
(1933) Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez
as Alexander
(1931) Luise, Queen of Prussia
as König Friedrich Wilhelm III
(1930) Never Trust a Woman
as Jean
(1933) Le Tunnel
as Woolf
(1935) Hundert Tage
as Fouché
(1934) Inheritance in Pretoria
as Eugen Schliebach
(1933) Love Story
as Baron von Eggersdorf
(1930) Fire in the Opera House
as Otto van Lingen
(2015) A Physical History of 'M'
as Schränker (archive)
(2002) Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
as Self (archive footage)
(1963) Zur Person
as Self