In West Germany, Granger acted in the role of Old Surehand in three Western movies adapted from novels by German author Karl May, with French actor Pierre Brice (playing the fictional Indian chief Winnetou), in "Among Vultures" (1964), with Elke Sommer; "The Oil Prince" (1965) ("Rampage at Apache Wells") (1965), shot in Yugoslavia; and "Old Surehand" ("Flaming Frontier") (1965). He was teamed with Brice and Lex Barker, also a hero of Karl May movies, in the crime movie "Gern hab' ich die Frauen gekillt" ("Killer's Carnival") (1966).