Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach

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.

  • Title: Alexander Granach
  • Popularity: 0.844
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1890-04-18
  • Place of Birth: Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Verbivtsi, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]
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  • Also Known As: Aleksandr Granakh , Александр Гранах, Schaje Granoch
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Alexander Granach Movies

  • 1922
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    Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    7.7 1922 HD

    The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near...

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  • 1939
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    Ninotchka

    Ninotchka

    7.489 1939 HD

    A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

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  • 1943
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    Hangmen Also Die!

    Hangmen Also Die!

    6.9 1943 HD

    During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe",...

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  • 1931
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    A Man's a Man

    A Man's a Man

    5.8 1931 HD

    About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.

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  • 1944
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    Voice in the Wind

    Voice in the Wind

    5.2 1944 HD

    Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.

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  • 1931
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    Comradeship

    Comradeship

    7 1931 HD

    The picture tells of a mine disaster where German miners rescue French miners from an undergound fire and explosion. The story takes place in the...

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  • 1942
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    Joan of Paris

    Joan of Paris

    6.4 1942 HD

    An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be...

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  • 1923
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    Warning Shadows

    Warning Shadows

    6.5 1923 HD

    During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

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  • 1944
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    The Seventh Cross

    The Seventh Cross

    6.7 1944 HD

    In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee...

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  • 1998
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    Nosferatu: The First Vampire

    Nosferatu: The First Vampire

    5 1998 HD

    The horror classic, Nosferatu, remastered with a soundtrack by Type-O Negative and hosted by David Carradine.

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  • 1942
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    Half Way to Shanghai

    Half Way to Shanghai

    1 1942 HD

    A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

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  • 1923
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    Earth Spirit

    Earth Spirit

    5.5 1923 HD

    When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is...

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  • 1943
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    Three Russian Girls

    Three Russian Girls

    1 1943 HD

    Another of a wartime cycle of Hollywood films lauding the praises of America's Soviet allies, Three Russian Girls is a remake of Russia's The Girl...

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  • 1931
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    Danton

    Danton

    5 1931 HD

    This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the...

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  • 1922
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    Lucrezia Borgia

    Lucrezia Borgia

    4.4 1922 HD

    Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who...

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  • 1931
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    1914

    1914

    1 1931 HD

    The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

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  • 1939
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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    7.2 1939 HD

    Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The...

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  • 1928
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    Freie Fahrt

    Freie Fahrt

    1 1928 HD

    The struggels of the German proletariat over the course of several centuries. Propaganda film by the Social Democratic Party.

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  • 1931
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    The Theft of the Mona Lisa

    The Theft of the Mona Lisa

    5.3 1931 HD

    This German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid...

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  • 1929
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    The Adjutant of the Czar

    The Adjutant of the Czar

    7.8 1929 HD

    Drama of plot and intrigue in Imperial Russia.

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  • 1930
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    The Twelfth Hour

    The Twelfth Hour

    1 1930 HD

    A version of Nosferatu to which sound was added. Some scenes were left out and new ones were added including a different ending. Additionally all the...

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  • 1936
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    Gypsies

    Gypsies

    1 1936 HD

    A Soviet agent tries to win over a band of gypsies to a happy life on a farm co-op.

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  • 1944
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    My Buddy

    My Buddy

    1 1944 HD

    A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts...

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  • 1943
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    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    6.5 1943 HD

    Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the...

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  • 1940
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    Foreign Correspondent

    Foreign Correspondent

    7 1940 HD

    American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

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  • 1936
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    Der Kampf

    Der Kampf

    5 1936 HD

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  • 1927
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    Die berühmte Frau

    Die berühmte Frau

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1929
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    Flucht in die Fremdenlegion

    Flucht in die Fremdenlegion

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1942
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    Northwest Rangers

    Northwest Rangers

    6 1942 HD

    Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

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  • 1941
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    So Ends Our Night

    So Ends Our Night

    6 1941 HD

    An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

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  • 1929
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    Pavement Butterfly

    Pavement Butterfly

    6 1929 HD

    In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle...

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  • 1928
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    Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland

    Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1924
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    Die Radio Heirat

    Die Radio Heirat

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1927
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    Svengali

    Svengali

    1 1927 HD

    The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.

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  • 1929
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    Das letzte Fort

    Das letzte Fort

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1923
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    Man by the Roadside

    Man by the Roadside

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1923
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    I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

    I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

    5.1 1923 HD

    From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted...

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  • 1942
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    Wrecking Crew

    Wrecking Crew

    5.5 1942 HD

    Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew...

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  • 1926
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    Qualen der Nacht

    Qualen der Nacht

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1923
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    Paganini

    Paganini

    1 1923 HD

    Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.

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  • 1923
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    Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

    Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1943
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    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow

    5.2 1943 HD

    Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

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  • 1923
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    Navarro the Dancer

    Navarro the Dancer

    1 1923 HD

    The dancer Navarro has lost her husband and son. With her daughter at her side, she returns to her homeland and comes under suspicion of spying when...

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  • 1928
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    Accident

    Accident

    6.7 1928 HD

    A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.

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  • 1921
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    Camera obscura

    Camera obscura

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1941
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    A Man Betrayed

    A Man Betrayed

    5.5 1941 HD

    Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is...

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