Gustaf Gründgens - Actor Profile

Gustaf Gründgens

20Movies
8.1 Best Rating

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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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
1931 M Schränker ★ 8.1 HIT
1941 Uncle Krüger Joseph Chamberlain ★ 7.5 HIT
1960 Faust Mephisto ★ 7.3 HIT
1933 Liebelei Baron v. Eggersdorff ★ 6.9 HIT
2017 Hitler's Hollywood Various Roles (archive footage) ★ 6.4 FLOP
1960 A Glass of Water Sir Henry St. John ★ 6.4 FLOP
1933 Der Tunnel Mr. Woolf ★ 6.0 FLOP
1938 Tanz auf dem Vulkan Jean-Gaspard Debureau ★ 6.0 FLOP
1935 Pygmalion Professor Higgins ★ 6.0 FLOP
1936 Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung Lord George Illingworth ★ 6.0 FLOP
1931 Danton Robespierre ★ 5.6 FLOP
1933 Le Tunnel Woolf ★ 5.6 FLOP
1941 Friedemann Bach Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ★ 5.5 FLOP
1931 The Theft of the Mona Lisa Unbekannter ★ 5.3 FLOP
1932 The Countess of Monte Cristo Der 'Baron' Hochstapler ★ 5.0 FLOP
1937 Love in Stunt Flying Jack Warren ★ 5.0 FLOP
1935 Joan of Arc König Karl VII. von Frankreich ★ 5.0 FLOP
1934 Black Fighter Johanna Dr. Frost, politischer Agent ★ 5.0 FLOP
1932 Teilnehmer antwortet nicht Fahrlehrer ★ 5.0 FLOP
1934 So Ended a Great Love Count Metternich ★ 5.0 FLOP