Emil Jannings
Highest Rated: 100% The Patriot (1928)
Lowest Rated: 67% Loves of Pharaoh (1922)
Birthday: Jul 23, 1884
Birthplace: Rorschach, Switzerland
Imposing silent star who first gained prominence with Max Reinhardt's Berlin theater in the teens. Jannings appeared in several superior early German films, particularly those directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and was outstanding as the humiliated doorman in F.W. Murnau's "The Last Laugh" (1924). He moved to Hollywood in 1926 and won an Academy Award for Josef Von Sternberg's "The Last Command" (1928), but after the advent of sound his inadequate English forced a return to Germany. There he turned in his most famous performance, as Professor Rath in Von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel" (1930). In 1938 Jannings accepted Goebbels' invitation to head the Tobis Film Company, which produced Nazi propaganda features such as Veidt Harlan's "Der Herrscher" (1937) and Hans Steinhoff's "Ohm Kruger" (1941). The Allied authorities refused to allow Jannings to work after the war, though a subsequent inquiry into his fascist affiliations cleared him of any serious involvement with the Nazi regime.
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Emil Jannings
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ohm Krüger |
Paul Krüger (Character), Producer |
- | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Making of a King | König Friedrich Wilhelm I (Character) | - | 1935 |
96% |
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The Blue Angel | Prof. Immanuel Rath (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Der blaue Engel | Prof. Immanuel Rath (Character) | $78.0K | 1930 |
95% |
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The Last Command |
Gen. Dolgorucki / |
- | 1928 |
100% |
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The Patriot | Czar Paul I (Character) | - | 1928 |
88% |
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The Way of All Flesh | August Schilling (Character) | - | 1927 |
91% |
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Faust | Mephisto (Character) | - | 1926 |
100% |
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Variety | Boss Huller (Character) | - | 1925 |
88% |
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Tartuffe | Unknown (Character) | - | 1925 |
100% |
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The Last Laugh | Hotelportier [hotel porter] (Character) | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet |
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Waxworks | Harun al Raschid (Character) | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Othello | Othello (Character) | - | 1922 |
67% | No Score Yet | Loves of Pharaoh | Pharao Amenes (Character) | - | 1922 |
No Score Yet |
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Anna Boleyn | König Heinrich VIII. (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kohlhiesel's Daughters | Peter Xaver (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Algol | Robert Herne (Character) | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet |
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Passion | König Louis XV (Character) | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet |
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The Eyes of the Mummy | Unknown (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Merry Jail | Quabbe (Character) | - | 1917 |