Alexander Granach
Birthday
1890/04/18
Day of death
1945/03/14 (54 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
Also know as
Aleksandr Granakh , Александр Гранах, Schaje Granoch
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 s...Read more
Acting
(1922) Nosferatu
as Knock
(1939) Ninotchka
as Comrade Kopalski
(1943) Hangmen Also Die!
as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
(1931) A Man's a Man
as ---
(1944) Voice in the Wind
as Angelo
(1931) Comradeship
as Kasper
(1942) Joan of Paris
as Gestapo Agent
(1923) Warning Shadows
as Shadowplayer
(1944) The Seventh Cross
as Zillich
(1998) Nosferatu: The First Vampire
as Knock - ein Häusermakler
(1942) Half Way to Shanghai
as Mr. Nikolas
(1923) Earth Spirit
as Schigolch
(1943) Three Russian Girls
as Major Braginski
(1931) Danton
as Marat
(1922) Lucrezia Borgia
as ein Gefangener
(1931) 1914
as Jaurès' Friend
(1939) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Soldier (uncredited)
(1928) Freie Fahrt
as ---
(1931) The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Redner
(1929) The Adjutant of the Czar
as Stranger
(1930) The Twelfth Hour
as Karsten
(1936) Gypsies
as Danilo
(1944) My Buddy
as Tim Oberta
(1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Paco
(1940) Foreign Correspondent
as Hotel Valet (uncredited)
(1936) Der Kampf
as Rovelli
(1927) Die berühmte Frau
as Diener bei Alfredo
(1929) Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
as Beppo, Legionär
(1942) Northwest Rangers
as Pierre - Man in Casino
(1941) So Ends Our Night
as The Pole
(1929) Pavement Butterfly
as Coco
(1928) Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
as Pollaczek
(1924) Die Radio Heirat
as ---
(1927) Svengali
as Geiger Gecko
(1929) Das letzte Fort
as Gestino
(1923) Man by the Roadside
as Shoemaker
(1923) I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
as Judas Ischariot
(1942) Wrecking Crew
as Joe Poska
(1926) Qualen der Nacht
as Murphy
(1923) Paganini
as Ferucchio
(1923) Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Archivar Lindhorst
(1943) Mission to Moscow
as Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
(1923) Navarro the Dancer
as Clegg
(1928) Accident
as ---
(1921) Camera obscura
as ---
(1941) A Man Betrayed
as T. Amato