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.
Filmography
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
as Various Roles (archive footage)
A Physical History of 'M'
2015
as Schränker (archive footage)
Faust
1960
as Mephisto
A Glass of Water
1960
as Sir Henry St. John
Friedemann Bach
1941
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Uncle Krüger
1941
as Joseph Chamberlain
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
1938
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
Love in Stunt Flying
1937
as Jack Warren
A Woman of No Importance
1936
as Lord George Illingworth
Pygmalion
1935
as Professor Higgins
Joan of Arc
1935
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
Hundert Tage
1935
as Fouché
Inheritance in Pretoria
1934
as Eugen Schliebach
So Ended a Great Love
1934
as Count Metternich
Black Fighter Johanna
1934
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
Le Tunnel
1933
as Woolf
Der Tunnel
1933
as Mr. Woolf
Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez
1933
as Alexander
Liebelei
1933
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
Love Story
1933
as Baron von Eggersdorf
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
1932
as Fahrlehrer
The Countess of Monte Cristo
1932
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
Yorck
1931
as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
Luise, Queen of Prussia
1931
as König Friedrich Wilhelm III