
Gustaf Gründgens
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(30 total)
M
as Schränker

Liebelei
as Baron v. Eggersdorff

Hitler's Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)

Faust
as Mephisto

Uncle Krüger
as Joseph Chamberlain

Der Tunnel
as Mr. Woolf

Tanz auf dem Vulkan
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau

Danton
as Robespierre

A Glass of Water
as Sir Henry St. John

Le Tunnel
as Woolf

Love Story
as Baron von Eggersdorf

The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler

Love in Stunt Flying
as Jack Warren

Joan of Arc
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich

The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Unbekannter

Black Fighter Johanna
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent

Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
as Fahrlehrer

Friedemann Bach
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Pygmalion
as Professor Higgins

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
as Lord George Illingworth
TV Shows
(2 total)
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
as Self (archive footage)

Zur Person
as Self