--- name: "Gustaf Gründgens" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gustaf-grundgens" fi1m_id: "gustaf-grundgens" imdb_id: "nm0345073" tmdb_id: 12325 wikidata_id: "Q61260" roles: ["Actor"] born: "22 December 1899" died: "7 October 1963" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T23:17:34.815200+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Gustaf Gründgens ## Identity Gustaf Gründgens - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gustaf-grundgens - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gustaf-grundgens - **IMDb ID:** nm0345073 - **TMDB ID:** 12325 - **Wikidata ID:** Q61260 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Gr%C3%BCndgens, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61260, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345073/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12325 Actor. Born 22 December 1899 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Died 7 October 1963. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 22 December 1899, Düsseldorf, Germany - **Died:** 7 October 1963 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Gr%C3%BCndgens, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61260, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345073/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12325 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*M*](https://film.one/film/m.md) (94) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Gustaf Gründgens was a German actor and theatre director. Born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens on 22 December 1899 in Düsseldorf, he trained at the drama school of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus after the First World War and began his career at smaller theatres in Halberstadt, Kiel and Berlin. In 1923 he joined the Kammerspiele in Hamburg, where he also directed for the first time. He later worked in Berlin under Max Reinhardt and at the Prussian State Theatre. Gründgens appeared in films from 1929, including the role of Schränker in *M* (1931). His stage portrayal of Mephistopheles in Goethe's *Faust*, first performed in 1932, became one of his best-known roles; he reprised it in the 1960 film adaptation. He served as artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg, and his career continued through the Nazi period. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *M* (1931), Fi1m 94, as Schränker — [page](https://film.one/film/m.md) ## Complete filmography (36) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Hitler's Hollywood* (2017), as Various Roles (archive footage) - *A Physical History of 'M'* (2015), as Schränker (archive footage) - *Don Gil von den grünen Hosen* (1964), Director - *Faust* (1960), as Mephisto · Director - *A Glass of Water* (1960), as Sir Henry St. John - *Friedemann Bach* (1941), as Wilhelm Friedemann Bach · Director - *Uncle Krüger* (1941), as Joseph Chamberlain - *Two Worlds* (1940), Director - *Der Schritt vom Wege* (1939), Executive Producer, Director - *Tanz auf dem Vulkan* (1938), as Jean-Gaspard Debureau - *Love in Stunt Flying* (1937), as Jack Warren · Director - *A Woman of No Importance* (1936), as Lord George Illingworth - *Pygmalion* (1935), as Professor Higgins - *Joan of Arc* (1935), as König Karl VII. von Frankreich - *Hundert Tage* (1935), as Fouché - *Inheritance in Pretoria* (1934), as Eugen Schliebach - *So Ended a Great Love* (1934), as Count Metternich - *Black Fighter Johanna* (1934), as Dr. Frost, politischer Agent - *The Grand Duke's Finances* (1934), Director, Writer - *Le Tunnel* (1933), as Woolf - *Der Tunnel* (1933), as Mr. Woolf - *Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez* (1933), as Alexander - *Liebelei* (1933), as Baron v. Eggersdorff - *Love Story* (1933), as Baron von Eggersdorf - *The Town Stands on Its Head* (1933), Director - *Teilnehmer antwortet nicht* (1932), as Fahrlehrer - *The Countess of Monte Cristo* (1932), as Der 'Baron' Hochstapler - *Yorck* (1931), as Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg - *Luise, Queen of Prussia* (1931), as König Friedrich Wilhelm III - *The Theft of the Mona Lisa* (1931), as Unbekannter - *M* (1931), as Schränker — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/film/m.md) - *Danton* (1931), as Robespierre - *Fire in the Opera House* (1930), as Otto van Lingen - *Va Banque* (1930), as John James Brown, Privatdetektiv - *Hokuspokus* (1930), as Staatsanwalt Dr.Wilke - *Never Trust a Woman* (1930), as Jean ## Gallery - ![Gustaf Gründgens](https://film.one/media/person/103440/gallery-148b5072fb1b.jpg) Gustaf Gründgens — Naumann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S01144%2C_Berlin%2C_Gustav_Gr%C3%BCndgens_als_%27Hamlet%27.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Lage der benachbarten Grabmale von Gustaf Gründgens und Ida Ehre, am äußersten südöstlichen Rand des Althamburgischen Gedächtnisfriedhofs (Friedhof Ohlsdorf) ge (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/103440/gallery-2bf15f64875f.jpg) Lage der benachbarten Grabmale von Gustaf Gründgens und Ida Ehre, am äußersten südöstlichen Rand des Althamburgischen Gedächtnisfriedhofs (Friedhof Ohlsdorf) ge (2016) — Vitavia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/AlthambGed%C3%A4chtnisfriedhof_EhreGr%C3%BCndgens1.JPG/1280px-AlthambGed%C3%A4chtnisfriedhof_EhreGr%C3%BCndgens1.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Zustand (Januar 2016) der benachbarten Grabmale von Gustaf Gründgens und Ida Ehre, am äußersten südöstlichen Rand des Althamburgischen Gedächtnisfriedhofs (Frie](https://film.one/media/person/103440/gallery-ce7f3cefc1e4.jpg) Zustand (Januar 2016) der benachbarten Grabmale von Gustaf Gründgens und Ida Ehre, am äußersten südöstlichen Rand des Althamburgischen Gedächtnisfriedhofs (Frie — Vitavia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/AlthambGed%C3%A4chtnisfriedhof_EhreGr%C3%BCndgens2.JPG/1280px-AlthambGed%C3%A4chtnisfriedhof_EhreGr%C3%BCndgens2.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Grab von Gustaf Gründgens auf dem Friedhof Ohlsdorf (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/103440/gallery-ea3cb4bc8749.jpg) Grab von Gustaf Gründgens auf dem Friedhof Ohlsdorf (2011) — NordNordWest, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Grab_Gustaf_Gr%C3%BCndgens.jpg/1280px-Grab_Gustaf_Gr%C3%BCndgens.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Grabstätte Gustaf Gründgens 2020](https://film.one/media/person/103440/gallery-a949f8840ece.jpg) Grabstätte Gustaf Gründgens 2020 — Bernhard Diener, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Grabst%C3%A4tte_Gustaf_Gr%C3%BCndgens_2020.jpg/1280px-Grabst%C3%A4tte_Gustaf_Gr%C3%BCndgens_2020.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Tafel am Geburtshaus von Gustaf Gründgens, Graf-Adolf-Str. 92 in Düsseldorf (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/103440/gallery-b77cad6a3919.jpg) Tafel am Geburtshaus von Gustaf Gründgens, Graf-Adolf-Str. 92 in Düsseldorf (2017) — Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Gustaf_Gr%C3%BCndgens_Geburthaus_Plakette.jpg/1280px-Gustaf_Gr%C3%BCndgens_Geburthaus_Plakette.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 5 won - German Film Award 1961: German Film Award (won) - Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg) 1959: Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg) (won) - Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1953: Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won) - Satyr buttons 1938: Satyr buttons (won) - Staatsschauspieler 1934: Staatsschauspieler (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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