Emil Jannings

Actor

1884-07-22 – 1950-01-02 · 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.

• Faust (1926) — Mephisto
• The Blue Angel (1930) — Immanuel Rath
• The Last Laugh (1924) — Hotel Doorman
• The Last Command (1928) — Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
• Tartuffe (1926) — Tartüff
• Waxworks (1924) — Harun al Raschid
• Variety (1925) — Boss Huller
• Madame DuBarry (1919) — Ludwig XV.
• Anna Boleyn (1920) — Henry VIII, King of England
• The Eyes of the Mummy (1918) — Radu
• Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920) — Peter Xaver
• Othello (1922) — Othello
• The Merry Jail (1917) — Quabbe - der Gaoler
• The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) — Pharao Amenes
• The Broken Jug (1937) — Adam, Director
• Husbands or Lovers (1924) — Ehemann
• Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920) — Robert Herne
• The Way of All Flesh (1927) — August Shilling
• Uncle Krüger (1941) — Ohm (Paul)Krüger, Producer, Art Direction
• The Dismissal (1942) — Fürst Otto von Bismarck, Producer
• Quo Vadis? (1924) — Nerone
• Traumulus (1936) — Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
• Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939) — Dr. Robert Koch
• Danton (1921) — Danton