ALEXANDER GRANACH
ACTING
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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.
- Nosferatu 1922
- Ninotchka 1939
- Hangmen Also Die! 1943
- Voice in the Wind 1944
- Comradeship 1931
- Joan of Paris 1942
- Warning Shadows 1923
- The Seventh Cross 1944
- Three Russian Girls 1943
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939
- The Twelfth Hour 1930
- For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943
- Foreign Correspondent 1940
- Northwest Rangers 1942
- So Ends Our Night 1941
- Pavement Butterfly 1929
- Wrecking Crew 1942
- Mission to Moscow 1943
- A Man Betrayed 1941