Acting · Düsseldorf, Germany · Born December 22, 1899
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.
MovieHitler's Hollywood
2017
as Various Roles (archive footage)
MovieA Physical History of 'M'
2015
as Schränker (archive footage)
TVDas Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002
as Self (archive footage)
TVZur Person
1963
as Self
MovieFaust
1960
as Mephisto
MovieA Glass of Water
1960
as Sir Henry St. John
MovieFriedemann Bach
1941
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
MovieUncle Krüger
1941
as Joseph Chamberlain
MovieTanz auf dem Vulkan
1938
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
MovieLove in Stunt Flying
1937
as Jack Warren
MovieA Woman of No Importance
1936
as Lord George Illingworth
MoviePygmalion
1935
as Professor Higgins
MovieJoan of Arc
1935
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
MovieHundert Tage
1935
as Fouché
MovieInheritance in Pretoria
1934
as Eugen Schliebach
MovieSo Ended a Great Love
1934
as Count Metternich
MovieBlack Fighter Johanna
1934
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
MovieLe Tunnel
1933
as Woolf
MovieDer Tunnel
1933
as Mr. Woolf
MovieDie schönen Tage von Aranjuez
1933
as Alexander
MovieLiebelei
1933
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
MovieLove Story
1933
as Baron von Eggersdorf
MovieTeilnehmer antwortet nicht
1932
as Fahrlehrer
MovieThe Countess of Monte Cristo
1932
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
MovieYorck
1931
as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg
MovieLuise, Queen of Prussia
1931
as König Friedrich Wilhelm III
MovieThe Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931
as Unbekannter
MovieM
1931
as Schränker
MovieDanton
1931
as Robespierre
MovieFire in the Opera House
1930
as Otto van Lingen
MovieVa Banque
1930
as John James Brown, Privatdetektiv
MovieHokuspokus
1930
as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke
MovieNever Trust a Woman
1930
as Jean
