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Aleksandr Granakh
Александр Гранах
Schaje Granoch
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…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
as Knock - ein Häusermakler
The Seventh Cross
as Zillich
The Hitler Gang
as Julius Streicher
Voice in the Wind
as Angelo
My Buddy
as Tim Oberta
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Paco
Hangmen Also Die!
as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Mission to Moscow
as Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)
Three Russian Girls
as Major Braginski
Half Way to Shanghai
as Mr. Nikolas