Emil Jannings
Acting
23
Movies
1
TV Shows
24
Credits
About
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.
Emil Jannings
Acting
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.
The Oscars
Faust
The Blue Angel
The Last Laugh
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
The Last Command
The Patriot
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Hitler's Hollywood
Tartuffe
Anna Boleyn
Danton
Uncle Krüger
Variety
Waxworks
The Way of All Flesh
100 Years of the UFA
Peter the Great
Sins of the Fathers
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Madame DuBarry
Darling of the Gods
The Eyes of the Mummy
The Broken Jug