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Emil Jannings
Born: 1884-07-22 in 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.
Rated Filmography (54)
Sorted by Score10.0
Love Is Blind
1926
10.0
The Rats
1921
9.0
The Tempest
1932
9.0
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
9.0
Betrayal
1929
8.0
All for Money
1923
8.0
An Old Heart Becomes Young Again
1943
8.0
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920
8.0
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
2003
8.0
The Black Whale
1934
8.0
The Street of Sin
1928
8.0
Vendetta
1919
8.0
Sins of the Fathers
1928
7.9
Faust
1926
7.8
The Last Laugh
1924
7.4
Uncle Krüger
1941
7.4
The Last Command
1928
7.3
The Blue Angel
1930
7.3
The Film in the Film
1924
7.2
The Broken Jug
1937
7.2
Tartuffe
1926
7.0
The Daughter of Mehemed
1919
7.0
Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
2002
7.0
The Tragedy of Love
1923
7.0
The Countess of Paris
1923
7.0
Peter the Great
1922
7.0
The Great Light
1920
7.0
Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen
1920
6.9
Anna Boleyn
1920
6.8
Othello
1922
6.7
Variety
1925
6.6
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
1939
6.5
Algol: Tragedy of Power
1920
6.5
Danton
1921
6.5
Hitler's Hollywood
2017
6.5
Madame DuBarry
1919
6.5
The Way of All Flesh
1927
6.5
The Loves of Pharaoh
1922
6.5
Traumulus
1936
6.4
Waxworks
1924
6.4
The Merry Jail
1917
6.3
Quo Vadis?
1924
6.3
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
6.3
Darling of the Gods
1930
6.1
The Dismissal
1942
6.0
The Old and The Young King
1935
6.0
Die Brüder Karamasoff
1920
6.0
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
1920
5.8
The Patriot
1928
5.7
The Sovereign
1937
5.6
Husbands or Lovers
1924
5.4
The Eyes of the Mummy
1918
5.0
Lulu
1917
4.5
100 Years of the UFA
2017