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Emil Jannings was a German actor, popular in 1920s film in Hollywood. He was the first Oscar recipient, honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 1929 ceremony. Jannings is the only German ever to have won that award.
Birth Name
Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz
Born
Wednesday, 23 July 1884
Died
Monday, 02 January 1950
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Hitler's Hollywood | Self / Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2017 |
| From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses | Self | 2015 |
| Forbidden Films | (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Caligari - Wie der Horror ins Kino kam | Mephisto / Prof. Immanuel Rath | 2014 |
| Room 237 | Mephisto | 2012 |
| Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012 |
| Life Is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri | Self | 2006 |
| Tartuffe. the Lost Film | Tartüff | 2004 |
| Der letzte Mann - Das Making of | Hotelportier (archive footage) / Hotelportier | 2003 |
| Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | Various roles | 1995 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Hitler's Hollywood | Self / Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2017 |
| From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses | Self | 2015 |
| Forbidden Films | (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Caligari - Wie der Horror ins Kino kam | Mephisto / Prof. Immanuel Rath | 2014 |
| Room 237 | Mephisto | 2012 |
| Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012 |
| Life Is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri | Self | 2006 |
| Tartuffe. the Lost Film | Tartüff | 2004 |
| Der letzte Mann - Das Making of | Hotelportier (archive footage) / Hotelportier | 2003 |
| Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | Various roles | 1995 |
| Kintopp Kintopp | Professor Immanuel Rath | 1981 |
| Theater of Blood | Othello | 1973 |
| The Love Goddesses | Self / (archive footage) | 1965 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| Hollywood: The Great Stars | Professor Immanuel Rath | 1963 |
| Solang' noch Unter'n Linden | Self | 1958 |
| It Only Happened Once | Self - Emil Jannings | 1958 |
| Das kommt nicht wieder | Self | 1958 |
| Sie sind nicht mehr | (archive footage) | 1951 |
| Wonderful Times | Self | 1950 |
| Wo ist Herr Belling? | Eberhard Belling / Firmenchef Eberhard Belling | 1945 |
| Altes Herz wird wieder jung | Fabrikdirektor Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann / Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef | 1943 |
| The Dismissal | Fürst Bismarck / Fürst Otto von Bismarck | 1942 |
| Uncle Kruger | Ohm Krüger / Ohm (Paul)Krüger | 1941 |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | (archive footage) | 1940 |
| Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death | Dr. Robert Koch | 1939 |
| The Broken Jug | Adam, Dorfrichter / Adam | 1937 |
| Der Herrscher | Matthias Clausen | 1937 |
| Traumulus | Direktor Prof. Niemeyer / Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus | 1936 |
| The Making of a King | Friedrich Wilhelm I. König von Preussen / König Friedrich Wilhelm I. | 1935 |
| The Black Whale | Peter Petersen | 1934 |
| The Adventures of King Pausole | King Pausole | 1933 |
| The Merry Monarch | King Pausole | 1933 |
| The Tempest | Gustav Bumke | 1932 |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
| The Blue Angel | Professor Immanuel Rath | 1930 |
| Betrayal | Poldi Moser | 1929 |
| Sins of the Fathers | Wilhelm Spengler | 1928 |
| The Patriot | Czar Paul I | 1928 |
| Street of Sin | Basher Bill | 1928 |
| The Last Command | Grand Duke Sergius Alexander / Gen. Dolgorucki | 1928 |
| The Way of All Flesh | August Shilling / August Schilling | 1927 |
| Faust | Mephisto | 1926 |
| Liebe macht blind | Emil Jannings | 1926 |
| Tartuffe | Tartüff | 1925 |
| Variety | Boss Huller | 1925 |
| The Last Laugh | Hotelportier [Hotel Doorman] / Hotelportier | 1924 |
| Husbands or Lovers | Ehemann | 1924 |
| Waxworks | Harun al Raschid | 1924 |
| Quo Vadis? | Nerone | 1924 |
| Der Film Im Film | Himself | 1924 |
| All for Money | S. I. Rupp | 1923 |
| The Tragedy of Love | Ombrade | 1923 |
| The Loves of Pharaoh | Pharao Amenes | 1922 |
| Othello | Othello | 1922 |
| Danton | Danton | 1921 |
| Der Schwur des Peter Hergatz | Peter Hergatz | 1921 |
| Deception | Henry VIII / Henry VIII, King of England | 1920 |
| Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter | Osorcon, Pharao of Egypt | 1920 |
| Die Brüder Karamasoff | Dimitri Karamasoff | 1920 |
| Power | Robert Herne | 1920 |
| Das große Licht | Lorenz Ferleitner | 1920 |
| Kohlhiesel's Daughters | Peter Xaver | 1920 |
| Der Mann der Tat | Jan Miller | 1919 |
| Passion | König Louis XV / Ludwig XV. | 1919 |
| The Eyes of the Mummy | Radu, an Arab / Radu | 1918 |
| The Merry Jail | Quabbe - der Gaoler | 1917 |
| When Four Do the Same | Segetoff | 1917 |
| Die Bettlerin von St. Marien | Baron Gelsburg | 1917 |
| A Night of Horror | Bankier | 1917 |
| Der zehnte Pavillon der Zitadelle | 1917 | |
| Unheilbar | 1917 | |
| Das Geschäft | S. H. Haßler | 1917 |
| Die Seeschlacht | 1917 | |
| Im Angesicht des Toten | Paul Werner | 1916 |
| Das Leben ein Traum | Verführer | 1916 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Broken Jug | 1937 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Dismissal | 1942 |
| Uncle Kruger | 1941 |
| Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death | 1939 |
| All for Money | 1923 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1929 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Won |
| 1929 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Won |
