Gustaf Gründgens
Acting Born Dec 22, 1899 Düsseldorf, Germany 24 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- Zur Person (1963) as Self
- M (1931) as Schränker
- Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002) as Self (archive footage)
- Joan of Arc (1935) as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
- Der Tunnel (1933) as Mr. Woolf
- Liebelei (1933) as Baron v. Eggersdorff
- Pygmalion (1935) as Professor Higgins
- Hitler's Hollywood (2017) as Various Roles (archive footage)
- Le Tunnel (1933) as Woolf
- The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931) as Unbekannter
- Inheritance in Pretoria (1934) as Eugen Schliebach
- Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez (1933) as Alexander
- A Woman of No Importance (1936) as Lord George Illingworth
- Uncle Krüger (1941) as Joseph Chamberlain
- Hokuspokus (1930) as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
- Yorck (1931) as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
- Love in Stunt Flying (1937) as Jack Warren
- Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938) as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
- Faust (1960) as Mephisto
- So Ended a Great Love (1934) as Count Metternich
- Love Story (1933) as Baron von Eggersdorf
- Hundert Tage (1935) as Fouché
- A Glass of Water (1960) as Sir Henry St. John
- The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932) as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler