Georg John (23 July 1879 – 18 November 1941) was a German stage and film actor.
Early life
Georg John was born Georg Jacobsohn into a Jewish household in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany.
Career
John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres. In 1904, he was engaged at the Theater of Wilhelmshaven, followed by appearances at Stolp in 1905, Altona, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bochum and Göttingen. In 1914, John worked as an actor and producer for Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna.
In 1917, John first appeared in silent movies, playing a Tibetan monk in Die Fremde (The Stranger), and Death in Hilde Warren und der Tod (Hilde Warren and Death). These roles were typical of the kinds of parts he would become known for, even if, at first, he was more often seen as a father, husband or dignitary. Beginning in the 1920s, John appeared in the films of notable German filmmakers, where he often played bizarre, gnome-like figures, such as the beggar in Fritz Lang's Der müde Tod (Tired Death, 1921, released in English as Destiny), and the blind balloon-seller who recognizes the murderer due to a whistled song in 1931's M. For F. W. Murnau he played a night-watchman in Der Letzte Mann (The Last Man, 1924, released in English as The Last Laugh).
Being a Jew, John was deported in autumn 1941 to the Łódź Ghetto where he died on 18 November 1941 at the age of 62.
Filmography
- Die Fremde (1917)
- Hilde Warren und der Tod (1917)
- Peer Gynt (1919)
- Harakiri (1919)
- The Spiders (1919)
- Veritas vincit (1919)
- Unheimliche Geschichten (1919)
- Der Knabe in Blau (1919)
- Der Weg der Grete Lessen (1919)
- Der Menschheit Anwalt (1920)
- Die Spinnen - Das Brillantenschiff (1920)
- Die entfesselte Menschheit (1920)
- Der König von Paris (1920)
- The Indian Tomb (1921)
- Lady Hamilton (1921)
- Der müde Tod (1921)
- Das Geheimnis der Santa Maria (1921)
- The Stranger from Alster Street (1921)
- Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922)
- Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King (1922)
- Sie und die Drei (1922)
- Der brennende Acker (1922)
- Die Beute der Erinnyen (1922)
- Der Abenteurer (1922)
- The Lost Shoe (1923)
- The Stone Rider (1923)
- The Good Comrade (1923)
- Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant (1923)
- Glanz gegen Glück (1923)
- Guillotine (1924)
- Die Nibelungen (1924)
- The Last Laugh (1924)
- Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Waxworks) (1924)
- My Leopold (1924)
- Varieté (1925)
- Harry Hill's Deadly Hunt (1925)
- Peter the Pirate (1925)
- Express Train of Love (1925)
- Slums of Berlin (1925)
- Bismarck (1925)
- Adventure on the Night Express (1925)
- The Gentleman Without a Residence (1925)
- The Hanseatics (1925)
| - The Fallen (1926)
- The Flight in the Night (1926)
- Eyes Open, Harry! (1926)
- The Mill at Sanssouci (1926)
- Das graue Haus (1926)
- Des Königs Befehl (1926)
- Hölle der Liebe - Erlebnisse aus einem Tanzpalast (1926)
- Gehetzte Frauen (1927)
- The Bordellos of Algiers (1927)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Frühere Verhältnisse (1927)
- At the Edge of the World (1927)
- Der Mann ohne Kopf (1927)
- Petronella - Das Geheimnis der Berge (1927)
- The Curse of Vererbung (1927)
- The Weavers (1927)
- Luther (1928)
- Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter (1928)
- So küßt nur eine Wienerin (1928)
- Spione (1928)
- Volga Volga (1928)
- Panic (1928)
- The Hangman (1928)
- Alraune (1928)
- Man Against Man (1928)
- Men Without Work (1929)
- Somnambul (1929)
- Atlantik (1929)
- Taxi at Midnight (1929)
- Andreas Hofer (1929)
- The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930)
- The Land of Smiles (1930)
- Lumpenball (1930)
- M (1931)
- Stürmisch die Nacht (1931)
- Danton (1931)
- Das erste Recht des Kindes (1932)
- F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932)
- Death Over Shanghai (1932)
- The Flower of Hawaii (1933)
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
- Jumping Into the Abyss (1933)
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