Biographies: Emil Jannings - Actor

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Emil Jannings is a Swiss actor who was born in Rorschach, St. Gallen, on July 23, 1884 and died in Strobel, Salzburg, Austria on January 2, 1950 of liver cancer. Emil Jannings won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in The Last Command (1928), and The Way of All Flesh (1927). He also received the Venice Film Festival Award in 1937, and was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his film work. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he trained in the theater without pay and moved between many private theaters until finally settled in the Deutsches Theatre, and then made important films in silent cinema such as Madame DuBarry (1919), and Quo Vadis? (1924). He is famous for his roles in Faust (1926), and The Broken Jug (1937).

• 26 August 2021
• Toqa Hesham