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.
Movie Appearances
M
as Schränker
1931
Der Tunnel
as Mr. Woolf
1933
Hitler's Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2017
Liebelei
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
1933
Faust
as Mephisto
1960
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
1932
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
1938
Danton
as Robespierre
1931
Love in Stunt Flying
as Jack Warren
1937
Friedemann Bach
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1941
Joan of Arc
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
1935
Hokuspokus
as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
1930
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Unbekannter
1931
Black Fighter Johanna
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
1934
A Glass of Water
as Sir Henry St. John
1960
Yorck
as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
1931
Pygmalion
as Professor Higgins
1935
Uncle Krüger
as Joseph Chamberlain
1941
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
as Fahrlehrer
1932
A Woman of No Importance
as Lord George Illingworth
1936
