Gustaf Gründgens
Acting
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
2017Hitler's Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
2015A Physical History of 'M'
Schränker (archive footage)
1960Faust
Mephisto
1960A Glass of Water
Sir Henry St. John
1941Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1941Uncle Krüger
Joseph Chamberlain
1938Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Jean-Gaspard Debureau
1937Love in Stunt Flying
Jack Warren
1936A Woman of No Importance
Lord George Illingworth
1935Joan of Arc
König Karl VII. von Frankreich
1935Pygmalion
Professor Higgins
1935Hundert Tage
Fouché
1934Black Fighter Johanna
Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
1934So Ended a Great Love
Count Metternich
1934Inheritance in Pretoria
Eugen Schliebach
1933Der Tunnel
Mr. Woolf
1933Liebelei
Baron v. Eggersdorff
1933Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez
Alexander
1933Le Tunnel
Woolf
1933Love Story
Baron von Eggersdorf
1932The Countess of Monte Cristo
Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
1932Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
Fahrlehrer
1931M
Schränker
1931Danton
Robespierre
