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Emil Jannings

Born	Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz July 23, 1884(1884-07-23) Rorschach, Switzerland
Died	January 2, 1950 (aged 65) Strobl, Austria

Emil Jannings (23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a Swiss actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but the first person to be presented an Oscar.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Later life
4 Death
5 Filmography
6 External links

Early life

He was christened as Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Jannings was a theater actor who went into films. He starred in F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann, 1924), as a proud but aged hotel doorman who is demoted to a restroom attendant, and in the 1922 film version of Othello. Jannings worked with Murnau on two other films, playing the title character in Herr Tartüff (1925) and Mephistopheles in Faust (1926). He eventually started a career in Hollywood. In 1929 he won the Oscar for two films, The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command.

His Hollywood career came to an end with the advent of talkies; his thick German accent was difficult to understand, and his dialogue was dubbed by another actor in the part-talkie The Patriot (1928), although after Jannings objected, his voice was restored. He returned to Europe, where he starred opposite Marlene Dietrich in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, filmed in English simultaneously with its German version Der blaue Engel.

Later life

With Joseph Goebbels in 1938

During the Third Reich, he starred in several films which were intended to promote Nazism, particularly the Führerprinzip: Der Herrscher ("The Ruler" 1937), The Youth of Frederick the Great (1935), and The Dismissal of Bismarck (1942). Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels named him "Artist of the State" in 1941.^{[citation needed]}

When troops of the Allied Powers entered Germany in 1945, Jannings reportedly carried his Oscar statuette with him as proof of his former association with Hollywood. However, Jannings' active role in Nazi propaganda meant he was subject to denazification, and any comeback attempt was doomed. He then retired to his farm in Austria. Very proficient in financial matters, Jannings was one of the highest paid actors of his time.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Jannings died in 1950, aged 65, in Strobl, from cancer. His Best Actor Oscar is now on display at the Filmmuseum in Berlin, Germany.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1914	Arme Eva
	Im Schützengraben
	Passionels Tagebuch
1916	Aus Mangel an Beweisen	Dr. Langer
	Die Bettlerin von St. Marien	Baron Gelsburg
	Frau Eva
	Im Angesicht des Toten'’	Paul Werner
	Das Leben ein Traum
	Nächte des Grauens
	Stein unter Steinen
1917	Das Fidele Gefängnis	Quabbe, the jailer	The Merry Jail (Europe: English title)
	Wenn vier dasselbe tun	Segetoff
	Hoheit Radieschen
	Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach	Wilhelm Rohrbach
	Der Zehnte Pavillon der Zitadelle
	Das Geschäft	S. H. Haßler
	Lulu
	Der Ring der Giuditta Foscari
	Die Seeschlacht
	Unheilbar
1918	Keimendes Leben, Teil 1	James Fraenkel, Börsenmarktler John Smith, amerikanischer Ingenieur
	Die Augen der Mumie Ma	Radu, an Arab	aka The Eyes of the Mummy
	Fuhrmann Henschel
	Nach zwanzig Jahren	Horst Lundin 'Korn'
1919	Rose Bernd	Arthur Streckmann
	Madame DuBarry	Louis XV	aka Passion
	Vendetta	Tomasso
	Die Tochter des Mehemed	Vaco Juan Riberda, Fabrikbesitzer
	Keimendes Leben, Teil 2
	Der Mann der Tat	Jan Miller
1920	Colombine
	Anna Boleyn	Henry VIII	aka Deception
	Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter	Osorcon, Pharao of Egypt
	Algol - Tragödie der Macht	Robert Herne
	Das Große Licht	Lorenz Ferleitner
	Kohlhiesels Töchter	Peter Xaver	aka Kohlhiesel's Daughters
1921	Die Ratten	Bruno
	Der Schwur des Peter Hergatz
	Danton	Danton	aka All for a Woman
	Der Stier von Olivera	General François Guillaume
	Die Brüder Karamasoff	Dimitri Karamasoff	aka The Brothers Karamazov
1922	Peter der Große	Peter der Große	aka Peter the Great (USA)
	Othello	Othello
	Das Weib des Pharao	Pharao Amenes	aka Loves of the Pharaoh
	Die Gräfin von Paris		aka The Countess of Paris (USA)
1923	Alles für Geld	S. I. Rupp
1923	Tragödie der Liebe	Ombrade	aka The Tragedy of Love (USA)
1924	The Last Laugh	Hotelportier (hotel porter)	The Last Laugh (USA)
	Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau	Ehemann	aka Husbands or Lovers (USA)
	Das Wachsfigurenkabinett	Harun al Raschid	aka Waxworks
1925	Varieté	Boss Huller	aka Jealousy (USA)
	Quo Vadis?	Nerone
	Liebe macht blind	Emil Jannings	aka Love Makes Us Blind
1926	Herr Tartüff	Tartüff
1926	Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage	Mephisto
1927	The Way of All Flesh	August Schilling	Academy Award for Best Actor
1928	Sins of the Fathers	Wilhelm Spengler
	The Patriot	Czar Paul I
	Street of Sin	Basher Bill
	The Last Command	Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander	Academy Award for Best Actor
1929	Betrayal	Poldi Moser
1929	Fighting the White Slave Traffic
1930	Liebling der Götter	Albert Winkelmann	aka Darling of the Gods
1930	Der Blaue Engel	Prof. Immanuel Rath	aka The Blue Angel (USA)
1932	Stürme der Leidenschaft	Gustav Bumke	aka Storms of Passion aka Tempest
1933	Die Abenteuer des Königs Pausole	King Pausole	aka The Adventures of King Pausole
1933	The Merry Monarch	King Pausole
1934	Der Schwarze Walfisch	Peter Petersen	aka The Black Whale (International: English title)
1935	Der Alte und der junge König - Friedrichs des Grossen Jugend	Friedrich Wilhelm I. König von Preussen	aka The Making of a King (USA)
1936	Traumulus	Direktor Prof. Niemeyer	aka The Dreamer
1937	Der Zerbrochene Krug	Adam, Dorfrichter	aka The Broken Jug
1937	Der Herrscher	Matthias Clausen	aka The Ruler
1939	Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes	Dr. Robert Koch
1939	Der Trichter. (Nr. III)		scenes deleted
1941	Ohm Krüger	Ohm Krüger	aka Uncle Kruger (International: English title)
1942	Die Entlassung	Bismarck	aka Bismarck's Dismissal (UK)
1943	Altes Herz wird wieder jung	Fabrikdirektor Hoffmann
1945	Wo ist Herr Belling?	Firmenchef Eberhard Belling	aka Where Is Mr. Belling?

External links

Emil Jannings at the Internet Movie Database
Emil Jannings at Find a Grave
Photographs of Emil Jannings

Academy Award for Best Actor

Emil Jannings (1928) · Warner Baxter (1929) · George Arliss (1930) · Lionel Barrymore (1931) · Fredric March / Wallace Beery (1932) · Charles Laughton (1933) · Clark Gable (1934) · Victor McLaglen (1935) · Paul Muni (1936) · Spencer Tracy (1937) · Spencer Tracy (1938) · Robert Donat (1939) · James Stewart (1940)

Complete List · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

Persondata
NAME	Jannings, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Janenz, Theodor Friedrich Emil
SHORT DESCRIPTION	actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1884-07-23
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rorschach, Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	1950-01-02
PLACE OF DEATH	Strobl, Austria

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