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Emil Jannings

Acting · Born July 22, 1884 · 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.

Movies with Emil Jannings

• Faust (1926) — Mephisto
• The Last Laugh (1924) — Hotel Doorman
• The Blue Angel (1930) — Immanuel Rath
• Traumulus (1936) — Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
• The Street of Sin (1928) — Basher Bill
• Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940) — Self (archive footage)
• The Eyes of the Mummy (1918) — Radu
• Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011) — Himself (archive footage)
• An Old Heart Becomes Young Again (1943) — Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
• Danton (1921) — Danton
• Betrayal (1929) — Poldi Moser
• 100 Years of the UFA (2017) — Self - Actor (archive footage)