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Georg John


Foto: Praesens Film AG (P. Gassmann)

1879 - 1941

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The actor Georg John was born as Georg Jacobsohn in Schmiegel.

Like many other actors of the silent movie era he began his career at the theater where he started his acting on smaller stages.

He soon got engagements in bigger cities and in 1914 he finally played in Vienna where he not only was active as an actor but also as a director of different plays.

He made his film debut with "Ramara" (16) and in the next years he became a demanded actor who often impersonated strange figures.

In the next years he took part in the movies "Hilde Warren und der Tod" (17), "Mister Wu" (18), "Wogen des Schicksals" (18), "Der Weg der Grete Lessen" (19), "Veritas vincit" (19), "Peer Gynt" (19), "Die Spinnen" (19), "Unheimliche Geschichten" (19) and "Harakiri" (19).

The height of his cinematical career followed in the 20s and Georg John played numerous roles in often classic German silent movies.
To his well-known works of those years belong "Die Legende von der heiligen Simplicia" (20), "Das indische Grabmal, 1. Teil: Die Sendung des Yoghi" (21), "Das indische Grabmal, 2. Teil: Der Tiger von Eschnapur" (21), "Der müde Tod" (21), "Lady Hamilton" (21), "Der brennende Acker" (22), "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler" (22), "Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin" (22), "Die Nibelungen" (24), "Der letzte Mann" (24), "Pietro der Korsar" (25), "Varieté" (25), "Die Gesunkenen" (26), "Die Mühle von Sanssouci" (26), "Metropolis" (27), "Die Weber" (27), "Alraune" (28), "Panik" (28), "Spione" (28), "Wolga Wolga" (28), "Somnambul" (29), "Andreas Hofer" (29) and "Atlantik" (29).
In those years he often worked for the director Fritz Lang for whom he already played in front of the camera at the end of the 10s for the first time.

His last movies came in the 30s into being, among them "Das Land des Lächelns" (30), "Danton" (31), "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" (31), "F.P.1 antwortet nicht" (32) and "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" (33).

As a Jew he was not able to continue his film career in the National Socialist Germany.
Therefore he concentrated again to the theater where he was able to perform on stage for the cultural association of German Jews. But in 1941 this association was eliminated by the German rulers.
Georg John was arrested and deported to the ghetto Lodz where he died debilitated in the same year.

 
Other movies with Georg John:
Der Fremde (17) Das Buch des Lasters (17) Die getupfte Krawatte (17) Verlorene Töchter (18) Phantome des Lebens (19) Der Knabe in Blau (19) Das goldene Gift (19) DerTodessmaragd (19) Wirbel des Verderbens (19) Der Menschheit Anwalt (20) Johann Baptiste Lingg (20) Schatten einer Stunde (20) Der König von Paris (20) Die entfesselte Menschheit (20) Napoleon und die kleine Wäscherin (20) Herztrumpf (20) Dämon der Welt (20) Planetenschieber (21) Tobias Buntschuh (21) Die Fremde aus der Elstergasse (21) Die Geschichte von Barak Johnson (21) Der Silberkönig (21) Das Rätsel der Sphinx (21) Das Geheimnis der Santa Maria (21) Das Geheimnis der sechs Spielkarten, 4. Teil: Pique Sieben (21) Die Geschichte des grauen Hauses, 1. Teil: Der Mord aus verschmähter Liebe (21) Der Abenteurer (22) Die Beute der Erinnyen (22) Sie und die Drei (22) Praschnas Geheimnis (22) Jeremias (22) Das Feuerschiff (22) Der steinerne Reiter (23) Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant (23) Der verlorene Schuh (23) Ich hatt' einen Kameraden (23) Glanz gegen Glück (23) Frauenschicksal (23) Decameron Nights (24) Mein Leoold (24) Das Wachsfigurenkabnett (24) Guillotine (24) Harry Hills Jagd auf den Tod (25) Blitzzug der Liebe (25) Die Verrufenen (25) Der Herr ohne Wohnung (25) Bismarck, 1. Teil (25) Hanseaten (25) Abenteuer im Nachtexpress (25) Des Königs Befehl (26) Achtung Harry! Augen auf! (26) Hölle der Liebe (26) Das graue Haus (26) Wenn Menschen irren (26) Die Flucht in die Nacht (26) Erinnerungen einer Nonne (27) Die Frauengasse von Algier (27) Frühere Verhältnisse (27) Gehetzte Frauen (27) Der Fluch der Vererbung (27) Am Rande der Welt (27) Der Mann ohne Kopf (27) Die Glocke von St. Marein (27) So küsst nur eine Wienerin (28) Luther (28) Mann gegen Mann (28) Der Henker (28) Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter (28) Die Mitternachts-Taxe (29) Männer ohne Beruf (29) Die Frau ohne Nerven (30) Fundvogel (30) Lumpenball (30) Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci (30) Stürmisch die Nacht (31) Das erste Recht des Kindes (32) Tod über Shanghai (32) Die Blume von Hawaii (33) Sprung in den Abgrund (33)


 
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