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Gustaf Gründgens

Dec 22, 1899 - Oct 07, 1963 (63 years old) in Düsseldorf, Germany

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.

Known For

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M
Schränker
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Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Self (archive footage)
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Liebelei
Baron v. Eggersdorff
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Hitler's Hollywood
Various Roles (archive footage)
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Der Tunnel
Mr. Woolf
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Yorck
Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
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Danton
Robespierre
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Le Tunnel
Woolf
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Love in Stunt Flying
Jack Warren
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Faust
Mephisto

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