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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...
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NosferatuMovie • 1922
The Hunchback of Notre DameMovie • 1939
Foreign CorrespondentMovie • 1940
NinotchkaMovie • 1939
For Whom the Bell TollsMovie • 1943
Hangmen Also Die!Movie • 1943
The Seventh CrossMovie • 1944
Warning ShadowsMovie • 1923
ComradeshipMovie • 1931
Mission to MoscowMovie • 1943
AccidentMovie • 1928