# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emil-jannings
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:57:31.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emil-jannings"
name: "Emil Jannings"
slug: "emil-jannings"
description: "Emil Jannings 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 in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Jannings remains the only German ever to win in that category."
tagline: "German actor (1884-1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Emil_Jannings_-_no_watermark.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
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birthDate: "1884-07-23"
deathDate: "1950-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.183426989851547
  historical:           23.61335733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump