Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach (18 de Abril De 1890 – March 14, 1945) a lo popular Spanish actor en the 1920s and 1930s oms immigrated to the United States " en 1938. Granach was born Jessaja Gronach en Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Horodenka district, Austrian Galicia then, now Verbivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ucrania), to Jewish parents and rose to teatral prominence at the Volksbühne de Berlín. Granach entered película en 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts lo que el vampiro clásico Nosferatu (1922), in which the actor lo cast as Knock, the lunatic homóloga to Renfield, effectively a sustitutos name for Dracula. He co-starred en la búsqueda major early Spanish talkies as Compañerismo (1931). The Jewish Granach fled to the Soviet Union when Hitler came to power. When the Soviet Union, así que fue un inhospitable, pp settled en Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski en Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) para la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Granach proved indispensable to film makers during the war years, effectively portraying both dedicado Nazis (pp lo que Julius Streicher en The Hitler Pasillo, 1944) y leal anti-fascists. Perhaps his best role lo as Gestapo Inspector Alois Gruber, Fritz Lang Hangmen Also Die! (1943). His last película de aspecto de lo que en el MGM's The Seventh de la Cruz (1944), in which almost the entire supporting cast lo prominente European refugees.