Gustaf Gründgens

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