Emil Jannings
Birth date
July 22, 1884
Death date
January 2, 1950
Place of birth
Rorschach, Switzerland
Profession
Acting
Age
65 years
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.
Also known as
Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz
