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Gustaf Gründgens

22nd December 1899 Düsseldorf, Germany Acting

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.

31 Movies 2 TV Shows 33 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Faust poster
Faust 30th September 1960 as Mephisto
Pygmalion poster
Pygmalion 1st September 1935 as Professor Higgins
Joan of Arc poster
Joan of Arc 26th April 1935 as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
Liebelei poster
Liebelei 10th March 1933 as Baron v. Eggersdorff
Yorck poster
Yorck 23rd December 1931 as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
M poster
M 11th May 1931 as Schränker
Danton poster
Danton 21st January 1931 as Robespierre
Va Banque poster
Va Banque 18th September 1930 as John James Brown, Privatdetektiv