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The Seventh Cross

as Zillich

1944
My Buddy

as Tim Oberta

1944
Hangmen Also Die!

as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber

1943
Three Russian Girls

as Major Braginski

1943
Joan of Paris

as Gestapo Agent

1942
Half Way to Shanghai

as Mr. Nikolas

1942
A Man Betrayed

as T. Amato

1941
So Ends Our Night

as The Pole

1941
Ninotchka

as Comrade Kopalski

1939
Warning Shadows

as Shadowplayer

1923
Alexander Granach Alexander Granach

Birthday

1893-04-18

Place of Birth

Werbowitz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary

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 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.
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