Highest rated movie: Nosferatu (1922)
Lowest rated movie: Mission to Moscow (1943)
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Movies starring Alexander Granach have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 70%.
Nosferatu - released in 1922 - is Alexander Granach's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 633 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Alexander Granach is Mission to Moscow - released in 1943 - with a score of 44% based on 7 reviews.
Alexander Cranach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s who immigrated to the United States in 1938.
Cranach was born Jessaja Gronach in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Horodenka district, Austrian Galicia then, now Verbivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Cranach entered films in 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was the vampire classic Nosferatu (1922), in which the actor what is cast as Knock, the lunatic counterpart to Renfield, effectively a substitute name for Dracula. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as Kameradschaft (1931).
The Jewish Cranach fled to the Soviet Union when Hitler came to power. When the Soviet Union proved inhospitable, he settled in Hollywood, where he made his first American film appearance as Kopalski in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cranach proved indispensable to the film makers during the war years, effectively portraying both dedicated Nazis (he was Julius Streicher in The Hitler Gang, 1944) and loyal anti-fascists. Perhaps his best role as Gestapo Inspector Alois Gruber in Fritz Lang's Hangmen So! (1943). His last film appearance in what, in MGM's The Seventh Cross (1944), in which almost the entire supporting cast, what prominent European refugees.
Alexander Granach has acted in films with Harry Cording, George Tobias, Emory Parnell and John Abbott.
Alexander Granach has worked with these film directors: Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Curtiz, Fred Zinnemann and Fritz Lang.
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