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Hans Philipp August Albers (22 September 1891 – 24 July 1960), also known by his nickname “Der Blond Hans” (The Blond Hans), [1] [2] was a German actor and singer. He was the biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1960 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
This is a list of notable German actors from 1895, the year of the first public showing of a motion picture by the Lumière brothers, to the present. Actors are listed in the period in which their film careers began and the careers of most spanned more than just one period.
1930– American actor [citation needed] Noam Pitlik: 1932–1999 Emmy-winning American actor and television director [citation needed] Ron Rifkin: 1939– American actor, director [535] Joan Rivers: 1933–2014 American comedian, actress, talk show host, and celebrity [646] Andrew Sachs: 1930–2016 German-born British actor [252] Neil Sedaka ...
The Blue Angel (German: Der blaue Engel) is a 1930 German musical comedy-drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings and Kurt Gerron. Written by Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller and Robert Liebmann, with uncredited contributions by Sternberg, it is based on Heinrich Mann 's 1905 novel Professor Unrat ...
German Version made by MGM in Hollywood Barcarolle d'amour: Carl Froelich Henry Roussell: Simone Cerdan, Annabella [1] French/German co-production The Blue Angel: Josef von Sternberg: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron: Drama: Based on the story by Heinrich Mann: The Blonde Nightingale: Johannes Meyer: Ernst Behmer, Else Elster ...
Total. €1.06 billion. The film industry in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema made major technical and artistic contributions to early film, broadcasting and television technology. Babelsberg became a household synonym for the early 20th century film industry in Europe, similar to Hollywood later.
A quantitative comparison of the percentage of German movies screened vs. foreign movies screened shows the following numbers: in the last year of the Weimar Republic the percentage of German movies was 62%; by 1939 it had risen to 77% while the number of cinema visits increased by the factor 2.5 from 1933 to 1939.
Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) 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 roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. As of 2024, Jannings is the only German ever to win in ...