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Faust

as Mephisto

1960
Friedemann Bach

as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

1941
Uncle Krüger

as Joseph Chamberlain

1941
Joan of Arc

as König Karl VII. von Frankreich

1935
Pygmalion

as Professor Higgins

1935
So Ended a Great Love

as Count Metternich

1934
M

as Schränker

1933
Liebelei

as Baron v. Eggersdorff

1933
Le Tunnel

as Woolf

1933
The Countess of Monte Cristo

as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler

1932
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht

as Fahrlehrer

1932
Danton

as Robespierre

1931
Hokuspokus

as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke

1930
Fire in the Opera House

as Otto van Lingen

1930
Gustaf Gründgens Gustaf Gründgens

Birthday

1899-12-21

Place of Birth

Düsseldorf, Germany

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.
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