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.

Movies with Emil Jannings

• Faust 1926 · ★ 7.9
• The Blue Angel 1930 · ★ 7.3
• The Last Laugh 1924 · ★ 7.8
• The Last Command 1928 · ★ 7.4
• Tartuffe 1926 · ★ 7.2
• Waxworks 1924 · ★ 6.4
• Variety 1925 · ★ 6.7
• Hitler's Hollywood 2017 · ★ 6.5
• Madame DuBarry 1919 · ★ 6.5
• Anna Boleyn 1920 · ★ 6.9
• The Eyes of the Mummy 1918 · ★ 5.4
• Kohlhiesel's Daughters 1920 · ★ 6.0
• Othello 1922 · ★ 6.8
• The Merry Jail 1917 · ★ 6.4
• The Loves of Pharaoh 1922 · ★ 6.5
• The Broken Jug 1937 · ★ 7.2
• Husbands or Lovers 1924 · ★ 5.6
• Algol: Tragedy of Power 1920 · ★ 6.5
• The Way of All Flesh 1927 · ★ 6.5
• Uncle Krüger 1941 · ★ 7.4
• The Dismissal 1942 · ★ 6.1
• Quo Vadis? 1924 · ★ 6.3
• Traumulus 1936 · ★ 6.5
• Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes 1939 · ★ 6.6
• Danton 1921 · ★ 6.5
• The Patriot 1928 · ★ 5.8
• The Old and The Young King 1935 · ★ 6.0
• The Sovereign 1937 · ★ 5.7
• The Making of 'The Last Laugh' 2003 · ★ 8.0
• Cavalcade of the Academy Awards 1940 · ★ 6.3
• Darling of the Gods 1930 · ★ 6.2
• The Film in the Film 1924 · ★ 7.2
• The Great Light 1920 · ★ 7.0
• 100 Years of the UFA 2017 · ★ 4.5
• The Movie City of Hollywood 1928 · ★ 7.0
• Sins of the Fathers 1928 · ★ 8.0
• Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil 1918 · ★ 10.0
• Love Is Blind 1926 · ★ 10.0
• All for Money 1923 · ★ 8.0
• An Old Heart Becomes Young Again 1943 · ★ 8.0

Movies directed by Emil Jannings

• The Broken Jug 1937 · ★ 7.2