Georg John(1879-1941)

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Georg John

An audacious revenge melodrama set under the canvas of the big top, starring Emil Jannings...

A key work of German silent cinema and an international smash on its release, E. A. Dupont's Varieté (Variety) is an audacious revenge melodrama set under the canvas of the big top. When Boss Huller (the iconic Emil Jannings) meets the young émigré Berta-Marie (Lya De Putti), it kindles his desire to relaunch his career as a trapeze artist, stalled due to an injury and the pressures of domestic life. But with passion comes obsession, and with the involvement of the famed Artinelli into their act, tensions rise to a fever pitch. Visually astonishing, with some of the most inventive camerawork of the 1920s, and a typically intense and vivid central performance from Jannings, Varieté is presented here in an all-new restoration of the original German version. Featuring two scores: one by Stephen Horne (as performed at the London Film Festival 2015, and one by the Tiger Lilies (as performed at Berlinale 2015).

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Variétés (1925)

Georg John was born on 23 July 1879 in Schmiegel, Poland. He was an actor, known for M le maudit (1931), Le Dr. Mabuse (1922) and Les Nibelungen : La Vengeance de Kriemhild (1924). He died on 18 November 1941 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.

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Known for

M le maudit (1931)

8.3

Blind Panhandler

1931

Theo Matejko in Le Dr. Mabuse (1922)

7.8

Pesch

1922

Fritz Lang in Les Nibelungen : La Vengeance de Kriemhild (1924)

Les Nibelungen : La Vengeance de Kriemhild

7.9

Slaodel, his brother

1924

7.3

Prof. Dr. Begriffenfeldt

1919

Credits

Actor

Le testament du docteur Mabuse
7.9
- Baums Diener
- Baum's Servant
- 1933
Le saut dans l'abîme
- Fotograf
- 1933
Die Blume von Hawaii
5.4
- Oberpriester von Hawaii
- 1933
F.P.1 antwortet nicht
6.2
- Maschinist (as John)
- 1932
Tod über Shanghai
- Lutsin - Praxas Diener
- 1932
Nous les mères
- 1932
M le maudit
8.3
- Blind Panhandler
- 1931
Stürmisch die Nacht
- 1931
Danton
7.2
- Ankläger
- 1931
Le concert de flûte de Sans-Souci
6.9
- Zieten
- 1930
Au pays du sourire
6.8
- Tschang in der Operette
- 1930
Lumpenball
6.0
- 1930
Fundvogel
- Poacher
- 1930
Die Frau ohne Nerven
6.2
- Sekretär
- 1930
Atlantik
6.8
- Wendt, Thomas' servant
- 1929

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Personal details

Alternative names
- George John
Born
- July 23, 1879
- Schmiegel, Poland
Died
- November 18, 1941
- Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland

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

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