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.
Filmography
M
as Schränker
Liebelei
as Baron v. Eggersdorff
Hitler's Hollywood
as Various Roles (archive footage)
Faust
as Mephisto
Uncle Krüger
as Joseph Chamberlain
Der Tunnel
as Mr. Woolf
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
as Jean-Gaspard Debureau
Danton
as Robespierre
A Glass of Water
as Sir Henry St. John
Le Tunnel
as Woolf
The Countess of Monte Cristo
as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler
Love Story
as Baron von Eggersdorf
Love in Stunt Flying
as Jack Warren
Joan of Arc
as König Karl VII. von Frankreich
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as Unbekannter
Black Fighter Johanna
as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
as Fahrlehrer
Friedemann Bach
as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Pygmalion
as Professor Higgins
A Woman of No Importance
as Lord George Illingworth