Alexander Granach
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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. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as Kameradschaft (1931).
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
Der Auslandskorrespondent
Ninotschka
Der Glöckner von Notre Dame
Wem die Stunde schlägt
Auch Henker sterben
Das siebte Kreuz
Kameradschaft
Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination
Botschafter in Moskau
Polizeibericht Überfall
Joan of Paris