Emil Jannings
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: July 22, 1884
Place of Birth: Rorschach, Switzerland
Known For
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.
Faust
God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.
The Last Laugh
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Uncle Krüger
An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the British during the Boer War.
The Film in the Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
The Last Command
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
The Blue Angel
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Tartuffe
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
The Broken Jug
Today is a fateful day for village judge Adam. Who broke Widow Kull’s jug fleeing head over heels after his nightly visit to her daughter? As the trial unfolds, it becomes clear to everyone that the judge himself is the culprit. Judge Adam twists and turns, invents countless explanations, and piles up the most absurd lies. But he is conducting a trial against himself—one he cannot win.
Filmography
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Himself (archive footage)
as Hotelportier (archive footage)
as Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)
as Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef
as Fürst Otto von Bismarck
as Ohm (Paul)Krüger
as Self (archive footage)
as Dr. Robert Koch
as Adam
as Matthias Clausen
as Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus
as König Friedrich Wilhelm I.
as Peter Petersen
as Gustav Bumke
as Albert Winkelmann
as Immanuel Rath
as Poldi Moser
as Wilhelm Spengler
as Czar Paul I
as Basher Bill
as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
as August Shilling
as Mephisto
as Tartüff
as Boss Huller
as Hotel Doorman
as Ehemann
as Harun al Raschid
as Nerone
as Self
as S. I. Rupp
as Ombrade
as Ombrade
as Tsar Peter the Great
as Pharao Amenes
as Othello
as Danton
as Henry VIII, King of England
as Osorcon, Pharao of Egypt
as Robert Herne
as Lorenz Ferleitner
as Peter Xaver
as Ludwig XV.
as Tomasso
as Vaco Juan Riberda
as Radu
as James Fraenkel
as Quabbe - der Gaoler
as Alfredo, a clown
as ihr Mann, der Fabrikant