Gustaf Gründgens
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-12-22 (64 years old)
Deathday
1963-10-07
Place of Birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
Also known As
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Gustaf Gründgens
Biography
Gustaf Gründgens (22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg. His career continued unimpeded through the years of the Nazi regime; the extent to which this can be considered as deliberate collaboration with the Nazis is hotly disputed. His best known roles were that of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust in 1956/57, and as "Der Schränker" (The Safecracker) who is the chief judge of the kangaroo court presiding over Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's M.
Acting
1931
as Schränker
1933
as Mr. Woolf
2017
as Various Roles (archive footage)
1933
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
1960
as Mephisto
1932
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
1938
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
1931
as Robespierre
1937
as Jack Warren
1941
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1935
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
1930
as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
1931
as Unbekannter
1934
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
1960
as Sir Henry St. John
1931
as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
1935
as Professor Higgins
1941
as Joseph Chamberlain
1932
as Fahrlehrer
1936
as Lord George Illingworth
1934
as Count Metternich
1933
as Alexander
1931
as König Friedrich Wilhelm III
1930
as Jean
1933
as Woolf
1935
as Fouché
1934
as Eugen Schliebach
1933
as Baron von Eggersdorf
1930
as Otto van Lingen
2015
as Schränker (archive footage)
Production
1939
as Executive Producer
1960
as Director
1937
as Director
1934
as Director
1939
as Director
1934
as Writer
1964
as Director
1941
as Director
1940
as Director
1933
as Director
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