Kolomyia Raion
Granach was born Schaje Granoch in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Austrian Galicia then, now "Verbivtsi", Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin. Granach entered films in 1922; among the most widely exhibited of his silent efforts was "Nosferatu" (1922), 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).