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Emil Jannings, born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, was a German and Austrian actor, film director, theatre manager, and film producer. His professional career spanned from 1914 to 1945. He was recognized with the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, the Goethe Medal for Art and Science, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Jannings also authored the work *Mein Leben*.
He spoke German and English. Jannings died of liver cancer from natural causes in Strobl on January 2, 1950. During his life, he was married to Hanna Ralph, Gussy Holl, and Lucie Höflich.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Mein Leben
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Film & TV
Acting · 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…
Known for
- Hitler's Hollywood — Self - Actor (archive footage)2017
- 100 Years of the UFA — Self - Actor (archive footage)2017
- Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films — Himself (archive footage)2011
- The Making of 'The Last Laugh' — Hotelportier (archive footage)2003
- Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau — Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)2002
- The Oscars1953
- Where Is Mr. Belling? — Eberhard Belling1945
- An Old Heart Becomes Young Again — Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef1943
- The Dismissal — Fürst Otto von Bismarck1942
- Uncle Krüger — Ohm (Paul)Krüger1941
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1884
- Active to
- 1950
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,998x
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2014 · cited 9,237x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,016x
- Principles of Optics
· 1999 · cited 7,902x
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Encyclopedic overview
Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz; 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a Swiss-born German actor who was popular in Hollywood films in the 1920s. He was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor for starring in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Jannings remains the only German ever to win in that category.
He is best known for his films with F. W. Murnau and Josef von Sternberg, including 1930's The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel), with Marlene Dietrich. The Blue Angel was meant as a vehicle for Jannings to secure a place for himself in the new medium of sound film, but he was ultimately overshadowed by Dietrich. Jannings went on to leading roles in State Films (Staatsauftragsfilme) in Nazi Germany.
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