Gustaf Gründgens
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1899-12-22
Deathday 1963-10-07 (63 years old)
Place of Birth Düsseldorf, Germany
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
Actor
as Various Roles (archive footage)
as Schränker (archive)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Mephisto
as Sir Henry St. John
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
as Joseph Chamberlain
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
as Jack Warren
as Lord George Illingworth
as Professor Higgins
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
as Fouché
as Eugen Schliebach
as Count Metternich
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
as Woolf
as Mr. Woolf
as Alexander
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
as Baron von Eggersdorf
as Fahrlehrer
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
as König Friedrich Wilhelm III
as Unbekannter
as Schränker
as Robespierre
as Otto van Lingen
as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
as Jean
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Executive Producer
Writer
as Writer