Emil Jannings
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Emil Jannings 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
Jannings c. 1926
Jannings as Kreon in Hasenclever's Antigone, Großes Schauspielhaus, 1920
Jannings with Joseph Goebbels on Wolfgangsee, 1938
Emil Jannings' grave at St Wolfgang im Salzkammergut
The Last Command (1928 film)
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The Last Command is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz from a story by Lajos Bíró. The film stars Emil
Emil Jannings
…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…
Poster Last Command, The 01
The Last Command, Evelyn Brent (left) and Emil Jannings
The story was inspired by Theodore Lodijensky.
Grand Duke Sergius Alexander (Emil Jannings) and the Assistant Director (Jack Raymond): the Grand Duke "humbled for his arrogance" – reduced to a Hollywood extra