Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s who later migrated to the United States.

Granach was born Jessaja Gronach in Werbowitz , to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbhne in Berlin. Granach entered films in 1922 among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was the vampire classic Nosferatu , in which the actor was cast as Knock, the lunatic counterpart to Renfield, effectively a substitute name for Dracula. He costarred in such major early German talkies as Kameradschaft .

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