Alexander Granach
Acting
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 lu…
Also known as
Aleksandr Granakh · Александр Гранах · Schaje Granoch
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Known For
Nosferatu
1922 · Movie
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · Movie
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943 · Movie
Foreign Correspondent
1940 · Movie
Ninotchka
1939 · Movie
Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · Movie
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931 · Movie
The Seventh Cross
1944 · Movie
Joan of Paris
1942 · Movie
So Ends Our Night
1941 · Movie
Danton
1921 · Movie
A Man Betrayed
1941 · Movie