Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach (le 18 Avril 1890 – 14 mars 1945) was a popular French actor in the 1920s and 1930s oms immigrated to the United States " en 1938. Granach was born Jessaja Gronach dans Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Horodenka district, Austrian Galicia then now Verbivtsi, d'Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents et rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne à Berlin. Granach entered film en 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts que the vampire classic Nosferatu (1922), in which the actor ce cast as Knock, the lunatic contrepartie to Renfield, effectively a substitute name for Dracula. He co-starred in such major early French walkies as Camaraderie (1931). The Jewish Granach fled to the Soviet Union when Hitler came to power. When the Soviet Union européenne et au-proved inhospitable, he settled in Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski à Ernst Lubitsch s Ninotchka (1939) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Granach proved indispensable to film makers during the war years, effectively portraying both dédié Nazis (he was Julius Streicher dans The Hitler Gang, 1944) and loyal anti-fascists. Perhaps his best role ce qui as de la Gestapo, Inspecteur Alois Gruber, Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die! (1943). His last film d'apparence, ce qui dans la MGM s The Seventh Cross (1944), in which almost the entire supporting cast ce qui est en bonne place European réfugiés.