Emil Jannings

Actor

Born: July 22, 1884
Died: January 2, 1950 (age 65)
From: 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…

Filmography (73)

100 Years of the UFA (2017)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
Himself (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Last Laugh' (2003)
Hotelportier (archive footage)
Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau (2002)
Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)
Where Is Mr. Belling?
Where Is Mr. Belling? (1945)
Eberhard Belling
An Old Heart Becomes Young Again (1943)
Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
The Dismissal (1942)
Fürst Otto von Bismarck
Uncle Krüger (1941)
Ohm (Paul)Krüger
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
Self (archive footage)
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939)
Dr. Robert Koch
Der letzte Appell (1939)
The Broken Jug (1937)
Director
The Sovereign (1937)
Matthias Clausen
Traumulus (1936)
Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
The Old and The Young King (1935)
König Friedrich Wilhelm I.
The Black Whale (1934)
Peter Petersen
The Adventures of King Pausole
The Adventures of King Pausole (1933)
König Pausole
The Tempest (1932)
Gustav Bumke
Darling of the Gods (1930)
Albert Winkelmann
The Blue Angel (1930)
Immanuel Rath
Betrayal (1929)
Poldi Moser
Sins of the Fathers (1928)
Wilhelm Spengler
The Movie City of Hollywood
The Movie City of Hollywood (1928)
Self
The Patriot (1928)
Czar Paul I
The Street of Sin (1928)
Basher Bill
The Last Command (1928)
Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
The Way of All Flesh (1927)
August Shilling
Faust (1926)
Mephisto
Love Is Blind (1926)