
Nato/a 22 lug 1884 · 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.

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011

Der letzte Mann - Das Making of
2003

Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
2002

Dono di primavera
1943

Die Entlassung
1942

Ohm Kruger l'eroe dei Boeri
1941

Der letzte Appell
1939

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
1939

L'orma del diavolo
1937

Der Herrscher
1937

Traumulus
1936

Der alte und der junge König
1935

Der schwarze Walfisch
1934

Tempeste di passione
1932

L'angelo azzurro
1930

Liebling der Götter
1930

Betrayal
1929

Lo zar folle
1928

Crepuscolo di gloria
1928

La via del male
1928

Sins of the Fathers
1928

Nel gorgo del peccato
1927

Faust
1926

Tartufo
1926

Liebe macht blind
1926

Varieté
1925

L'ultima risata
1924

Quo Vadis?
1924

Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau
1924

Il gabinetto delle figure di cera
1924

Tragödie der Liebe
1923

Alles für Geld
1923

Die Gräfin von Paris
1923

Othello
1922

Peter der Große
1922

Theonis, la donna dei faraoni
1922

Danton
1921

Die Ratten
1921

Anna Bolena
1920

Algol - Tragödie der Macht
1920

Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen
1920

Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
1920

Die Brüder Karamasoff
1920

Kohlhiesels Töchter
1920

Das große Licht
1920

Vendetta
1919

Madame DuBarry
1919

Die Tochter des Mehemed
1919

Gli occhi della mummia
1918

Keimendes Leben
1918

Lulu
1917

L'allegra prigione
1917

Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach
1917