Emil Jannings
Birthday: 1884-07-22 | Place of Birth: Rorschach, SwitzerlandEmil 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Paul Kruger (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Himself (archive footage)
as Hotelportier (archive footage)
as Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)
as Eberhard Belling
as Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
as Fürst Otto von Bismarck
as Ohm (Paul)Krüger
as Self (archive footage)
as Adam
as Matthias Clausen
as Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
as König Friedrich Wilhelm I.
as Peter Petersen
as König Pausole
as Gustav Bumke
as Albert Winkelmann
as Immanuel Rath
as Poldi Moser
as Basher Bill
as Czar Paul I
as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
as Self
as Wilhelm Spengler
as August Shilling
as Tartüff
