Ivan Grankin was born on February 6, 1889 in Nikolayev, Russian Empire (now Mykolaiv, Ukraine). He was an actor, known for Tsement (1927), V sugrobakh (1929) and Sorochynskyi yarmarok (1927). He died on January 18, 1971 in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union [now Kyiv, Ukraine].