Georg John

AKA: Georg Jacobsohn, George John
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1879-07-23

Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany [now Śmigiel, Poland]

Biography

Georg John (born Georg Jacobsohn; 23 July 1879 – 18 November 1941) was a German stage and film actor.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {64}

1928-01-12 0

So küsst nur eine Wienerin

Genre :

1919-11-05 5.5

Eerie Tales

A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Beggar

1921-10-06 7.422

Destiny

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Romance

1925-11-11 0

Der Herr ohne Wohnung

Genre :

1926-08-01 0

Des Königs Befehl

Genre :Drama

1931-04-04 0

Stormy Night

Genre :Drama

Bediensteter

1926-12-13 0

The Flight in the Night

Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play al ...
Genre :Drama

Gutsverwalter Wolleck

1920-08-29 5

Johann Baptiste Lingg

A 1920 German costume drama from the days of Napoleon Bonaparte directed by Arthur Teuber and starring Carl Auen as Johann Baptiste Lingg. ...
Genre :

Poacher

1930-05-19 0

Fundvogel

Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meets his cousin Andrea, who everyone calls "Fundvogel". Jan is fascinated by the young girl's beauty, a ...
Genre :Drama

Portier

1927-05-10 0

The Bordellos of Algiers

Genre :Adventure

Maschinist

1932-12-22 6

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction fi ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Nachtwächter [Night Watchman]

1924-12-23 7.8

The Last Laugh

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society. ...
Genre :Drama

Seemann

1925-11-16 6.792

Variety

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Romance

Working Man Who Causes Explosion of M-Machine (uncredited)

1927-02-06 8.1

Metropolis

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction

Death

1917-08-31 5.9

Hilde Warren and Death

Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whethe ...
Genre :Drama

Waschfraus Mann

1925-08-28 5

In the Slums of Berlin

It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him, his wife has ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Telphas

1919-10-03 5.9

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime

Owner of the Panoptikums

1924-11-13 6.4

Waxworks

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fanta ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror

Dr. Telphas

1920-02-06 6

The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship

When we last saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked forward to a few ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime

Manager Pichler

1918-09-04 0

Verlorene Töchter

Genre :Drama

1919-01-01 0

Phantome des Lebens

Genre :

Nachtwächter (archive footage)

2003-12-17 8

The Making of 'The Last Laugh'

This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany. ...
Genre :Documentary

Raoul

1925-12-25 0

Abenteuer im Nachtexpreß

Genre :

Pförtner

1923-03-31 6.1

The Stone Rider

In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, an elderly man tells the villagers that the valley where they live wasn't always happy but sorrowful ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Baums Diener

1933-04-21 7.654

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. Whe ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

1925-12-16 0

Hanseaten

Genre :

Nathan Miller

1926-09-13 8.7

Attention Harry! Open eyes!

Genre :Action

Robespierre

1922-10-26 0

Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin

The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French Revolution in which she was executed. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1921-06-08 0

Die Fremde aus der Elstergasse

Genre :Drama

Mummy

1921-10-06 0

The Riddle of the Sphinx

In Cairo, a quest for a coveted antiquity draws the heroine into a clandestine cult devoted to Osiris. What begins as intrigue turns perilous—abductions, conspiracies, and night-time chases through te ...
Genre :Adventure

1921-02-06 0

Planetenschieber

Genre :Drama

Franz Raffl

1929-10-14 5.6

Andreas Hofer

A film based on the story of the Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot Andreas Hofer who led an Austrian uprising against Bavarian and French troops during the Napoleonic Wars. ...
Genre :History, Drama

1928-01-01 0

Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter

Anastasia's supposed escape and possible survival was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century, provoking many books and films. At least ten women claimed to be her, offering v ...
Genre :Drama

Mime the Blacksmith / Alberich the Nibelung

1924-02-14 7.7

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Ansorge

1927-04-29 7

The Weavers

Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution. ...
Genre :

Blind Panhandler

1931-05-11 8.068

M

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

1928-11-15 0

Wolga Wolga

Genre :Drama

Lutsin

1932-10-27 0

Tod über Shanghai

Genre :Adventure

Penitent

1921-10-22 5.9

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to loo ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Penitent

1921-11-19 6.3

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur

Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Blind Senator

1919-01-02 0

Veritas vincit

"Truth Wins" - A history film that is particularly elaborate in terms of its features and that attempts to illustrate the perpetual victory of the truth about the lie in three epic episodes. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Zirkusdirektor

1923-11-01 0

Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant

Genre :

1921-12-31 0

Die Geschichte des grauen Hauses

Genre :

1920-11-11 0

Der König von Paris, 1. Teil - Die Geschichte des André Lifou

Genre :Drama

1921-08-08 0

Die Geschichte von Barak Johnson

Genre :Drama

Tschang-Ta

1918-09-29 0

Mr. Wu

Operette-like oriental fantasy about a forbidden love between en english boy and a chinese girl. ...
Genre :Drama

General Zieten

1926-02-01 0

Die Mühle von Sanssouci

Genre :Drama

Zigeunerhauptmann

1919-07-01 0

The Boy in Blue

A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor. Lost film, minor fragments survive ...
Genre :Drama

Dunkler mann

1920-12-03 0

Hearts Are Trumps

Genre :Drama

Blaodel - Etzel's Brother

1924-04-26 7.5

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Franz Histrich

1917-01-01 0

Das Buch des Lasters

A sculptor obsessed with a pianist will stop at nothing to rid himself of any competition for her affections. ...
Genre :Drama

Blind begger

1920-10-08 0

Die Legende von der heiligen Simplicia

Simplicia has a reputation for healing through prayer and laying on of hands. Knight Rochus sets out "to see how long it takes to turn a saint into a sinner!" He sneaks into the monastery and forces S ...
Genre :Drama

Pesch

1922-04-27 7.7

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1927-02-24 0

Memoirs of a Nun

Sister Angelika has the power of life or death over her former tormentor, now sick and placed in her care. ...
Genre :Drama

1927-09-18 6

At the Edge of the World

A mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war. ...
Genre :War, Romance, Drama

Astologer

1924-01-02 0

Decameron Nights

A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Prof. Dr. Begriffenfeldt

1919-04-06 0

Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod

Genre :Drama

Matz Moen

1919-04-06 0

Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend

Based on Henrik Ibsen's play. ...
Genre :Drama

1928-08-09 0

The Hangman

Prosecutor Leander is known for his heavy-handed and unyielding pleadings, demanding draconian punishments, often even the death penalty, for every accused offender. One day, he will experience first- ...
Genre :Drama

1934-02-09 5.9

Volga in Flames

Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed. He comes across a man who has lost his way in t ...
Genre :War, Drama

1923-01-01 0

Glanz gegen Glück

Genre :

1926-10-01 0

Hölle der Liebe

Genre :

Tschang

1930-03-14 6

The Land of Smiles

A western woman falls in love with a chinese prince. When she accompanies him to his homeland, strange things await her. Based on the operetta of the same name with music by Franz Lehár and libretto b ...
Genre :Music

Ankläger

1931-01-21 5.6

Danton

This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the dramatic downfall and execution of Georges Danton in 17 ...
Genre :Drama, History