Emil Jannings
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.
Movie Appearances
Faust
as Mephisto
1926
Danton
as Danton
1921
Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil
as James Fraenkel/John Smith
1918
The Last Laugh
as Hotel Doorman
1924
Waxworks
as Harun al Raschid
1924
The Eyes of the Mummy
as Radu
1918
Hitler's Hollywood
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
The Merry Jail
as Quabbe - der Gaoler
1917
Madame DuBarry
as Ludwig XV.
1919
Darling of the Gods
as Albert Winkelmann
1930
The Last Command
as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
1928
The Patriot
as Czar Paul I
1928
Tartuffe
as Tartüff
1926
Anna Boleyn
as Henry VIII, King of England
1920
Love is Blind
1926
The Way of All Flesh
as August Shilling
1927
The Loves of Pharaoh
as Pharao Amenes
1922
Variety
as Boss Huller
1925
The Dismissal
as Fürst Otto von Bismarck
1942
Quo Vadis?
as Nerone
1924
