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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 22, 1899
Died
October 7, 1963
Place of Birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
Gustaf Gründgens
0.3 Popularity
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
6.4
Various Roles (archive footage)
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
0.0
Schränker (archive footage)
A Physical History of 'M'
2015
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002
0.0
Self
Zur Person
1963
7.3
Mephisto
Faust
1960
6.4
Sir Henry St. John
A Glass of Water
1960
5.5
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Friedemann Bach
1941
7.5
Joseph Chamberlain
Uncle Krüger
1941
6.0
Jean-Gaspard Debureau
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
1938
5.0
Jack Warren
Love in Stunt Flying
1937
Credits
Hitler's Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2017
6.4
A Physical History of 'M'
as Schränker (archive footage)
2015
0.0
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
as Self (archive footage)
2002
0.0
Zur Person
as Self
1963
0.0
Faust
as Mephisto
1960
7.3
A Glass of Water
as Sir Henry St. John
1960
6.4
Friedemann Bach
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1941
5.5
Uncle Krüger
as Joseph Chamberlain
1941
7.5
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
1938
6.0
Love in Stunt Flying
as Jack Warren
1937
5.0
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
as Lord George Illingworth
1936
6.0
Pygmalion
as Professor Higgins
1935
6.0
Joan of Arc
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
1935
5.0
Hundert Tage
as Fouché
1935
0.0
Inheritance in Pretoria
as Eugen Schliebach
1934
0.0
So Ended a Great Love
as Count Metternich
1934
5.0
Black Fighter Johanna
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
1934
5.0
Le Tunnel
as Woolf
1933
5.6
Der Tunnel
as Mr. Woolf
1933
6.0
Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez
as Alexander
1933
0.0
Love Story
as Baron von Eggersdorf
1933
3.8
Liebelei
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
1933
6.9
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
as Fahrlehrer
1932
5.0
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
1932
5.0
Yorck
as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
1931
0.0
Luise, Queen of Prussia
as König Friedrich Wilhelm III
1931
0.0
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Unbekannter
1931
5.3
M
as Schränker
1931
8.1
Danton
as Robespierre
1931
5.6
Fire in the Opera House
as Otto van Lingen
1930
5.0
Hokuspokus
as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
1930
0.0
Never Trust a Woman
as Jean
1930
0.0