Emil Jannings

Acting

Emil Jannings

Born 1884-07-22 Rorschach, Switzerland 74 films

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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Filmography

74 films
The Dismissal poster

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grands…

The Dismissal

★ 6.1 1942

Uncle Krüger poster

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African polit…

Uncle Krüger

★ 7.4 1941