Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 22, 1899
Died
Oct 07, 1963
Place of Birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
Credits
38 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Hitler's Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
A Physical History of 'M'
Schränker (archive footage)
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Self (archive footage)
Don Gil von den grünen Hosen
Director
Zur Person
Self
Faust
Mephisto
A Glass of Water
Sir Henry St. John
Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Uncle Krüger
Joseph Chamberlain
Two Worlds
Director
Der Schritt vom Wege
Executive Producer
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Jean-Gaspard Debureau
Love in Stunt Flying
Jack Warren
A Woman of No Importance
Lord George Illingworth
Pygmalion
Professor Higgins
Joan of Arc
König Karl VII. von Frankreich
Hundert Tage
Fouché
Inheritance in Pretoria
Eugen Schliebach
So Ended a Great Love
Count Metternich
Black Fighter Johanna
Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
The Grand Duke's Finances
Director
Le Tunnel
Woolf
Der Tunnel
Mr. Woolf
Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez
Alexander
Liebelei
Baron v. Eggersdorff
Love Story
Baron von Eggersdorf
The Town Stands on Its Head
Director
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
Fahrlehrer
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
Yorck
Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
Luise, Queen of Prussia
König Friedrich Wilhelm III
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Unbekannter
M
Schränker
Danton
Robespierre
Fire in the Opera House
Otto van Lingen
Va Banque
John James Brown, Privatdetektiv
Hokuspokus
Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
Never Trust a Woman
Jean