Gustaf Gründgens
Born: 1899-12-22 in Düsseldorf, Germany
Died: 1963-10-07
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2017
- Hitler's Hollywood as Various Roles (archive footage)
2015
- A Physical History of 'M' as Schränker (archive footage)
2002
- Das Jahrhundert des Theaters as Self (archive footage)
1964
- Don Gil von den grünen Hosen ... (Director)
1963
- Zur Person as Self
1960
- Faust as Mephisto
- A Glass of Water as Sir Henry St. John
1941
- Uncle Krüger as Joseph Chamberlain
- Friedemann Bach as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1940
- Two Worlds ... (Director)
1939
- Der Schritt vom Wege ... (Executive Producer)
1938
- Tanz auf dem Vulkan as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
1937
- Love in Stunt Flying as Jack Warren
1936
- A Woman of No Importance as Lord George Illingworth
1935
- Joan of Arc as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
- Pygmalion as Professor Higgins
- Hundert Tage as Fouché
1934
- The Grand Duke's Finances ... (Director)
- Inheritance in Pretoria as Eugen Schliebach
- So Ended a Great Love as Count Metternich
- Black Fighter Johanna as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
1933
- Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez as Alexander
- The Town Stands on Its Head ... (Director)
- Der Tunnel as Mr. Woolf
- Liebelei as Baron v. Eggersdorff
- Love Story as Baron von Eggersdorf
- Le Tunnel as Woolf
1932
- The Countess of Monte Cristo as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
- Teilnehmer antwortet nicht as Fahrlehrer
1931
- M as Schränker
- The Theft of the Mona Lisa as Unbekannter
- Luise, Queen of Prussia as König Friedrich Wilhelm III
- Danton as Robespierre
- Yorck as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
1930
- Never Trust a Woman as Jean
- Fire in the Opera House as Otto van Lingen
- Hokuspokus as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
- Va Banque as John James Brown, Privatdetektiv