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Emil Jannings

1884 - 1950

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Jannings is the 398th most popular actor (down from 356th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Actor.

Emil Jannings was a German actor, director, and winner of the first ever Academy Award for Best Actor. He was best known for his roles in films such as The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

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Among actors, Emil Jannings ranks 398 out of 13,578. Before him are Charles Dance, George Lazenby, Lana Turner, Jonathan Pryce, Ellen Burstyn, and Fanny Ardant. After him are Richard Dean Anderson, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, Daniel Craig, Don Johnson, and Errol Flynn.

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Among people born in 1884, Emil Jannings ranks 28. Before him are Yevgeny Zamyatin, Hermann Rorschach, Auguste Piccard, Casimir Funk, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Vincent Auriol. After him are Rudolf Bultmann, Gerald Gardner, Edward Sapir, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Rajendra Prasad, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler. Among people deceased in 1950, Emil Jannings ranks 22. Before him are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Willis Carrier, Sri Aurobindo, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Kurt Weill, and Ramana Maharshi. After him are Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Karl Seitz, Roman Shukhevych, Nicolai Hartmann, Cesare Pavese, and Max Beckmann.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Emil Jannings ranks 68 out of 1,015. Before him are Johannes Itten (1888), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Werner Arber (1929), Hans Küng (1928), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), and Gabriel Cramer (1704). After him are Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Max Frisch (1911), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Siegfried Wagner (1869), Alejo Carpentier (1904), and Domenico Fontana (1543).

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Among ACTORS In Switzerland

Among actors born in Switzerland, Emil Jannings ranks 3. Before him are Bruno Ganz (1941), and Ursula Andress (1936). After him are Marthe Keller (1945), Mario Adorf (1930), Michel Simon (1895), Vincent Perez (1964), Liselotte Pulver (1929), Kate Burton (1957), Kat Graham (1989), Daniel Bernhardt (1965), and Sofia Milos (1969).

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