Gustaf Gründgens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustaf Gründgens

German actor, director, intendant

Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1899

Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Oct-1963

Profession: stage actor, film director, film producer, intendant (government official), film actor

Nationality: Germany, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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 1960, and as "Der Schränker" (The Safecracker) who is the chief judge of the kangaroo court presiding over Peter Lorre in Fritz Lang's M.