FrameThrower · Actors · Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1926–1928
Born 22 July 1884 · Rorschach, Switzerland · died 2 January 1950
Emil Jannings 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1926–1928
- Academy Award for Best Actor1929
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor1937
- Goethe Medal for Art and Science1939
- Staatsschauspieler1936
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Emil takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 71% of their frames are night — the look of the work Emil takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Emil Jannings's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.