
Known for
Acting
Born
December 22, 1899
Birthplace
Düsseldorf, Germany
Died
October 7, 1963 (aged 63)
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.
2017
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2015
as Schränker (archive footage)
2002
1964
Director
1963
1960
as Mephisto, Director
1960
as Sir Henry St. John
1941
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Director
1941
as Joseph Chamberlain
1940
Director
1939
Executive Producer, Director
1938
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
1937
as Jack Warren, Director
1936
as Lord George Illingworth
1935
as Professor Higgins
1935
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
1935
as Fouché
1934
as Eugen Schliebach
1934
as Count Metternich
1934
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
1934
Director, Writer
1933
as Woolf
1933
as Mr. Woolf
1933
as Alexander
1933
as Baron v. Eggersdorff