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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 22, 1884
Died
January 2, 1950
Place of Birth
Rorschach, Switzerland
Also Known As
- Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz
Emil Jannings
0.5 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
4.5
Self - Actor (archive footage)
100 Years of the UFA
2017
6.4
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
9.0
Himself (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
8.0
Hotelportier (archive footage)
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
2003
7.0
Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)
Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
2002
7.0
The Oscars
1953
🎬
0.0
Eberhard Belling
Where Is Mr. Belling?
1945
0.0
Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
Altes Herz wird wieder jung
1943
5.4
Fürst Otto von Bismarck
The Dismissal
1942
7.5
Ohm (Paul)Krüger
Uncle Krüger
1941
Credits
100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
4.5
Hitler's Hollywood
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
6.4
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Himself (archive footage)
2011
9.0
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
as Hotelportier (archive footage)
2003
8.0
Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
as Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)
2002
7.0
The Oscars
1953
7.0
🎬
Where Is Mr. Belling?
as Eberhard Belling
1945
0.0
Altes Herz wird wieder jung
as Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
1943
0.0
The Dismissal
as Fürst Otto von Bismarck
1942
5.4
Uncle Krüger
as Ohm (Paul)Krüger
1941
7.5
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self (archive footage)
1940
6.5
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
as Dr. Robert Koch
1939
5.8
Der letzte Appell
1939
0.0
The Broken Jug
as Adam
1937
7.2
The Sovereign
as Matthias Clausen
1937
5.0
Traumulus
as Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
1936
6.0
The Old and The Young King
as König Friedrich Wilhelm I.
1935
5.7
Der schwarze Walfisch
as Peter Petersen
1934
0.0
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König Pausole
as König Pausole
1933
0.0
The Tempest
as Gustav Bumke
1932
0.0
Darling of the Gods
as Albert Winkelmann
1930
5.5
The Blue Angel
as Immanuel Rath
1930
7.3
Betrayal
as Poldi Moser
1929
0.0
Sins of the Fathers
as Wilhelm Spengler
1928
6.0
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The Movie City of Hollywood
as Self
1928
6.0
The Patriot
as Czar Paul I
1928
5.0
The Street of Sin
as Basher Bill
1928
0.0
The Last Command
as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
1928
7.3
The Way of All Flesh
as August Shilling
1927
6.4
Faust
as Mephisto
1926
7.9
Liebe macht blind
1926
0.0
Tartuffe
as Tartüff
1926
7.2
Variety
as Boss Huller
1925
6.6
The Last Laugh
as Hotelportier [Hotel Doorman]
1924
7.8
Husbands or Lovers
as Ehemann
1924
5.3
Waxworks
as Harun al Raschid
1924
6.4
Quo Vadis?
as Nerone
1924
5.8
The Film in the Film
as Self
1924
7.5
All for Money
as S. I. Rupp
1923
0.0
The Countess of Paris
as Ombrade
1923
0.0
The Tragedy of Love
as Ombrade
1923
0.0
Peter the Great
as Tsar Peter the Great
1922
0.0
The Loves of Pharaoh
as Pharao Amenes
1922
6.6
Othello
as Othello
1922
6.9
The Rats
1921
0.0
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1921
0.0
Danton
as Danton
1921
5.7
Anna Boleyn
as Henry VIII, King of England
1920
6.7
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
as Osorcon, Pharao of Egypt
1920
0.0
Algol: Tragedy of Power
as Robert Herne
1920
6.3
The Great Light
as Lorenz Ferleitner
1920
6.0
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
as Peter Xaver
1920
5.9
Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen
1920
0.0
🎬
Rose Bernd
as Arthur Streckmann
1919
0.0
Madame DuBarry
as Ludwig XV.
1919
6.4
Vendetta
as Tomasso
1919
0.0
The Daughter of Mehemed
as Vaco Juan Riberda
1919
0.0
The Eyes of the Mummy
as Radu
1918
5.4
Keimendes Leben
as James Fraenkel
1918
0.0
🎬
Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil
as James Fraenkel/John Smith
1918
0.0
🎬
Fuhrmann Henschel
1918
0.0
The Merry Jail
as Quabbe - der Gaoler
1917
6.4
Lulu
as Alfredo, a clown
1917
5.0
🎬
When Four Do the Same
as Segetoff
1917
0.0
A Night of Horror
1917
0.0
Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach
1917
0.0
🎬
Der 10. Pavillon der Zitadelle
1917
0.0
🎬
Stein unter Steinen
as Göttlingk
1917
0.0
🎬
Passionels Tagebuch
as Karl Borke
1916
0.0
🎬
Der Morphinist
1916
0.0
Frau Eva
as ihr Mann, der Fabrikant
1916
0.0
🎬
Life is a Dream
as Verführer
1916
0.0
🎬
Dear Eva
1914
0.0