Timeline Emil Jannings

Swiss-born German actor, winner of the first Academy Award for Best Actor, whose later career was tied to Nazi film.

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1884 Emil Jannings born in Rorschach Emil Jannings is born in Rorschach.
1924 Emil Jannings in The Last Laugh He plays the hotel doorman in F. W. Murnau's silent film.
1927 Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh One of the two Hollywood films for which he wins the first Best Actor Oscar.
1929 Emil Jannings wins the first Best Actor Oscar He receives the first Academy Award for Best Actor, before the ceremony, having returned to Germany.
1930 Emil Jannings in The Blue Angel He plays Professor Rath opposite Marlene Dietrich.
1950 Emil Jannings dies in Strobl Emil Jannings dies aged 65.