Albert Gran

Albert Gran (4 August 1862 – 16 December 1932)^[1] was a Norwegian born American movie actor. He is most associated with his appearance in drama and light comedy films.

Albert Gran was born in Bergen, Norway. Albert Gran launched his screen career in 1916. He appeared as a character actor in 44 films between 1916 and 1933. A master at portraying self-indulgent grotesques, Gran moved effortlessly from peasant characterizations to aristocratic roles.

He was seen as Duke Travina with Marion Davies in Beverly of Graustark (MGM .1926), as Paul Boul with Janet Gaynor in Seventh Heaven (Fox .1927) and as B. Bickering Brown with Joan Crawford in Our Modern Maidens (MGM .1929). Albert Gran died in Los Angeles, California in an automobile accident at the age of 61.

References

^ Hans J. Wollstein (1994). Strangers in Hollywood: the history of Scandinavian actors in American films from 1910 to World War II. Scarecrow Press. pp. 125–7. ISBN 978-0-8108-2938-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=EPkqAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 26 July 2010.

External links

Albert Gran at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Gran, Albert
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Date of birth	4 August 1862
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Date of death	16 December 1932
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