Gustaf Gründgens
Actor
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
M
as Schränker 1931
Liebelei
as Baron v. Eggersdorff 1933
Hitler's Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage) 2017
Faust
as Mephisto 1960
Uncle Krüger
as Joseph Chamberlain 1941
Der Tunnel
as Mr. Woolf 1933
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau 1938
Danton
as Robespierre 1931
A Glass of Water
as Sir Henry St. John 1960
Le Tunnel
as Woolf 1933
Love Story
as Baron von Eggersdorf 1933
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler 1932
Love in Stunt Flying
as Jack Warren 1937
Joan of Arc
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich 1935
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Unbekannter 1931
Black Fighter Johanna
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent 1934
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
as Fahrlehrer 1932