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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.

Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
as Knock - ein Häusermakler

My Buddy
as Tim Oberta

The Seventh Cross
as Zillich

The Hitler Gang
as Julius Streicher

Voice in the Wind
as Angelo

Three Russian Girls
as Major Braginski

For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Paco

Mission to Moscow
as Russian Air Force Officer (uncredited)

Hangmen Also Die!
as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber

Wrecking Crew
as Joe Poska

Northwest Rangers
as Pierre - Man in Casino

Half Way to Shanghai
as Mr. Nikolas

Joan of Paris
as Gestapo Agent

A Man Betrayed
as T. Amato

So Ends Our Night
as The Pole

Foreign Correspondent
as Hotel Valet (uncredited)

Ninotchka
as Comrade Kopalski

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Soldier (uncredited)

Der Kampf
as Rovelli

Gypsies
as Danilo, rich gypsy camp leader

A Man's a Man

Comradeship
as Kasper

The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Redner

Danton
as Marat

1914: The Last Days Before the War
as Jaurès' Friend

The Twelfth Hour
as Karsten

Das letzte Fort
as Gestino
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
as Beppo, Legionär

Pavement Butterfly
as Coco

The Adjutant of the Czar
as Stranger
Freie Fahrt

Accident
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
as Pollaczek

Die berühmte Frau
as Diener bei Alfredo

Svengali
as Geiger Gecko
Qualen der Nacht
as Murphy
Die Radio Heirat

I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
as Judas Ischariot
Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
as Archivar Lindhorst

Warning Shadows
as Shadowplayer

Man by the Roadside
as Shoemaker

Navarro the Dancer
as Clegg

Paganini
as Ferucchio

Earth Spirit
as Schigolch

Lucrezia Borgia
as ein Gefangener

Nosferatu
as Knock

Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)

Camera obscura