Gustaf Gründgens
Birthday: 1899-12-21 | Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, GermanyGustaf 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Schränker (archive footage)
as Mephisto
as Joseph Chamberlain
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
as Fouché
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
as Professor Higgins
as Count Metternich
as Eugen Schliebach
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
as Schränker
as Woolf
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
as Fahrlehrer
as Robespierre
as Unbekannter
as Otto van Lingen
as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
