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Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings

Birthday: 1884-07-22 | Place of Birth: Rorschach, Switzerland

Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor, the first to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Between 1926 and 1929, he worked in Hollywood. Upon returning to Germany, he sympathized with the Nazi regime and was one of the advisors to Universum Film-Aktiengesellschaft (UFA), the film studios controlled by Goebbels as a propaganda weapon. With the end of World War II and Germany's defeat, his career fell into disgrace.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Cruel Images

as    Paul Kruger (archive footage)

2018
Hitler's Hollywood

as    Self - Actor (archive footage)

2017
100 Years of the UFA

as    Self - Actor (archive footage)

2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as    Himself (archive footage)

2003
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'

as    Hotelportier (archive footage)

2002
Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau

as    Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)

1945
Where Is Mr. Belling?

as    Eberhard Belling

1943
Altes Herz wird wieder jung

as    Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef

1942
The Dismissal

as    Fürst Otto von Bismarck

1941
Uncle Krüger

as    Ohm (Paul)Krüger

1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as    Self (archive footage)

1937
The Broken Jug

as    Adam

1937
The Sovereign

as    Matthias Clausen

1936
Traumulus

as    Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus

1935
The Old and The Young King

as    König Friedrich Wilhelm I.

1934
Der schwarze Walfisch

as    Peter Petersen

1933
König Pausole

as    König Pausole

1932
The Tempest

as    Gustav Bumke

1930
Darling of the Gods

as    Albert Winkelmann

1930
The Blue Angel

as    Immanuel Rath

1929
Betrayal

as    Poldi Moser

1928
The Street of Sin

as    Basher Bill

1928
The Patriot

as    Czar Paul I

1928
The Last Command

as    Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander

1928
1928
Sins of the Fathers

as    Wilhelm Spengler

1927
The Way of All Flesh

as    August Shilling

1927
Tartuffe

as    Tartüff