Emil Jannings

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1884-07-22 (66 years old)

Deathday

1950-01-02

Place of Birth

Rorschach, Switzerland

Emil Jannings

Biography

Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor. He was the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Acting

1926

Faust

as Mephisto

1921

Danton

as Danton

1918

Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil

as James Fraenkel/John Smith

1924

The Last Laugh

as Hotelportier [Hotel Doorman]

1924

Waxworks

as Harun al Raschid

2017

Hitler's Hollywood

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1919

Madame DuBarry

as Ludwig XV.

1917

The Merry Jail

as Quabbe - der Gaoler

1930

Darling of the Gods

as Albert Winkelmann

1928

The Last Command

as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander

1928

The Patriot

as Czar Paul I

1926

Tartuffe

as Tartüff

1920

Anna Boleyn

as Henry VIII, King of England

1927

The Way of All Flesh

as August Shilling

1922

The Loves of Pharaoh

as Pharao Amenes

1925

Variety

as Boss Huller

1942

The Dismissal

as Fürst Otto von Bismarck

1924

Quo Vadis?

as Nerone

1924

1920

1920

1923

All for Money

as S. I. Rupp

1937

1943

Altes Herz wird wieder jung

as Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef

1937

The Sovereign

as Matthias Clausen

1945

Where Is Mr. Belling?

as Eberhard Belling

1936

Traumulus

as Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus

1935

The Old and The Young King

as König Friedrich Wilhelm I.

1932

The Tempest

as Gustav Bumke

1941

Uncle Krüger

as Ohm (Paul)Krüger

1917

1917

Lulu

as Alfredo, a clown

1919

Die Tochter des Mehemed

as Vaco Juan Riberda

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Himself (archive footage)

1917

Stein unter Steinen

as Göttlingk

1919

Rose Bernd

as Arthur Streckmann

1920

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter

as Osorcon, Pharao of Egypt

2003

The Making of 'The Last Laugh'

as Hotelportier (archive footage)

1916

Life is a Dream

as Verführer

1916

Frau Eva

as ihr Mann, der Fabrikant

1916

Passionels Tagebuch

as Karl Borke

1922

Othello

as Othello

2002

Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau

as Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)

1918

Keimendes Leben

as James Fraenkel

1934

Der schwarze Walfisch

as Peter Petersen

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self (archive footage)

1923

1923

1922

Peter the Great

as Tsar Peter the Great

1928

The Street of Sin

as Basher Bill

1929

Betrayal

as Poldi Moser

1920

The Great Light

as Lorenz Ferleitner

1930

The Blue Angel

as Immanuel Rath

1919

Vendetta

as Tomasso

2017

100 Years of the UFA

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

1928

Sins of the Fathers

as Wilhelm Spengler

Production

1937

The Broken Jug

as Director

1941

Uncle Krüger

as Producer

1941

Uncle Krüger

as Art Direction

1942

The Dismissal

as Producer

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