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Emil Jannings

Acting Born Jul 22, 1884 Rorschach, Switzerland 24 credits

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.

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Known for

The Oscars

1953
Film

The Blue Angel

as Immanuel Rath
Film

Faust

as Mephisto
Film

The Last Laugh

as Hotel Doorman

Full filmography

  • The Oscars (1953)
  • The Blue Angel (1930) as Immanuel Rath
  • Faust (1926) as Mephisto
  • The Last Laugh (1924) as Hotel Doorman
  • The Patriot (1928) as Czar Paul I
  • Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011) as Himself (archive footage)
  • Hitler's Hollywood (2017) as Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939) as Dr. Robert Koch
  • The Way of All Flesh (1927) as August Shilling
  • The Street of Sin (1928) as Basher Bill
  • The Last Command (1928) as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
  • Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940) as Self (archive footage)
  • Betrayal (1929) as Poldi Moser
  • 100 Years of the UFA (2017) as Self - Actor (archive footage)
  • Tartuffe (1926) as Tartüff
  • The Sovereign (1937) as Matthias Clausen
  • Danton (1921) as Danton
  • Traumulus (1936) as Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
  • Madame DuBarry (1919) as Ludwig XV.
  • Vendetta (1919) as Tomasso
  • Peter the Great (1922) as Tsar Peter the Great
  • Othello (1922) as Othello
  • Quo Vadis? (1924) as Nerone
  • The Rats (1921) as Bruno Mechelke