Gustaf Gründgens

German actor, intendant and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. He was born 22 December 1899 in Düsseldorf, Germany, as Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens (he took his artist name Gustaf in 1924) and died 7 October 1963 during a world trip in Manila, The Philippines by an overdose of sleeping pills. He was married to Erika Mann from 1926 to 1929 (divorced), and to Marianne Hoppe from 1936 to 1946 (divorced).