Biography
Gustaf Gründgens (22 December 1899 – 7 October 1963), born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of '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
all 39
Movies 37
Director 7
TV Shows 2
self 2
Writer 1
Producer 1
Various Roles (archive footage)
Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
Movie
Schränker (archive footage)
A Physical History of 'M' (2015)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002)
TV
ArchiveFootage
Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz (2000)
Movie
Self
Zur Person (1963)
TV
Writer
Die Banditen (1961)
Movie
Mephisto / Director
Faust (1960)
Movie
Sir Henry St. John
A Glass of Water (1960)
Movie
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach / Director
Friedemann Bach (1941)
Movie
Joseph Chamberlain
Uncle Krüger (1941)
Movie
Director
Two Worlds (1940)
Movie
Executive Producer / Director
Der Schritt vom Wege (1939)
Movie
Jean-Gaspard Debureau
Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938)
Movie
Jack Warren / Director
Love in Stunt Flying (1937)
Movie
Lord George Illingworth
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1936)
Movie
Professor Higgins
Pygmalion (1935)
Movie
König Karl VII. von Frankreich
Joan of Arc (1935)
Movie
Fouché
Hundert Tage (1935)
Movie
Eugen Schliebach
Inheritance in Pretoria (1934)
Movie
Count Metternich
So Ended a Great Love (1934)
Movie
Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
Black Fighter Johanna (1934)
Movie
Director / Writer
Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (1934)
Movie
Woolf
Le Tunnel (1933)
Movie
Mr. Woolf
Der Tunnel (1933)
Movie
Baron von Eggersdorf
Love Story (1933)
Movie
Baron v. Eggersdorff
Liebelei (1933)
Movie
Director
Eine Stadt steht kopf (1933)
Movie
Fahrlehrer
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (1932)
Movie
Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932)
Movie
Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
Yorck (1931)
Movie
König Friedrich Wilhelm III
Luise, Queen of Prussia (1931)
Movie
Unbekannter
The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
Movie
Schränker
M (1931)
Movie
3.67
Robespierre
Danton (1931)
Movie
Otto van Lingen
Fire in the Opera House (1930)
Movie
Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
Hokuspokus (1930)
Movie
Information
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1899-12-22
Deathday
1963-08-07 (63 years old)
Birth Name
Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens
Birth Place
Düsseldorf,
Relationships
Marianne Hoppe (1936 - 1946), Erika Mann (1926 - 1929)
Children
Peter Gorski
Siblings
Marita Gründgens
Citizenships
Weimar Republic, Kingdom of Prussia, Nazi ,
Awards
Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg), Satyr buttons, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of , German Film Award, Staatsschauspieler
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