Alexander Granach

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Alexander Granach
New York City, New York, U.S.
Resting placeMontefiore Cemetery
Other namesJessaja Granach
OccupationActor
Years active1920–1944
Spouse
Martha Guttmann
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(m. 1914; div. 1921)​
PartnerLotte Lieven (1933–1945, his death)
ChildrenGad Granach

Alexander Granach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a German-Austrian actor in the 1920s and 1930s who emigrated to the United States in 1938.[1]

Life and career

Granach was born Schaje Granoch in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (

F.W. Murnau's loose adaptation of Dracula, in which the actor was cast as Knock, the film's counterpart to Renfield. He co-starred in such major early German talkies as Kameradschaft
(1931).

The Jewish Granach fled to the

MGM's The Seventh Cross
(1944), in which almost the entire supporting cast was prominent European refugees.

Granach died on March 14, 1945, in New York from a pulmonary embolism following an appendectomy. He was buried in Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens.[2] Granach's autobiography, There Goes an Actor (1945) was republished in 2010 under the new title, From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor (Transaction Publishers). He was survived by his long time partner, Lotte Lieven,[3] and by his son, Gad Granach. His son, who lived in Jerusalem, wrote his own memoirs with many references to his father.

Partial filmography

Literature

  • Alexander Granach: There Goes an Actor. Doubleday, Dorian and Co, Inc., Garden City 1945, ASIN B0007DSBEM
  • Alexander Granach: There Goes a Mensch: A Memoir. Atara Press, Los Angeles 2019,
    ISBN 9780982225158
  • Alexander Granach: Da geht ein Mensch. Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 2003, (Neuauflage)
    ISBN 3-927217-38-7
  • Alexander Granach: From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor.
    ISBN 978-1-4128-1347-1
  • Albert Klein and Raya Kruk: Alexander Granach: fast verwehte Spuren.
    ISBN 3-89468-108-X
  • Alexander Granach: Mémoires d'un gardien de bordel. Anatolia, Paris 2009,
    ISBN 978-2-35406-040-4
  • ISBN 3-927217-31-X
  • ISBN 9780982225110

References

  1. ^ "A. Granach Dead; Stage, Film Actor - Tomasino in 'A Bell for Adano' at the Cort Theatre Was 54 - Studied Under Reinhardt". New York Times. March 16, 1945. p. 15. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  2. ISBN 978-0-7864-7992-4
    . Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Alexander Granach: Du mein liebes Stück Heimat. Briefe an Lotte Lieven aus dem Exil". www.perlentaucher.de.

External links

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