Georg John was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 stage and film actor.

Early life

Georg John was born in Schmiegel

Smigiel

Śmigiel is a town in Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 5,420 inhabitants .While part of the Prussian Province of Posen, the town was administered within Kreis Schmiegel.-People:...

, Province of Posen

Province of Posen

The Province of Posen was a province of Prussia from 1848–1918 and as such part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. The area was about 29,000 km2....

, 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

Wilhelmshaven

Wilhelmshaven is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea.-History:...

, followed by appearances at Stolp in 1905, Altona, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bochum

Bochum

Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:...

 and Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

. In 1914 John worked as an actor and producer for Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

.

In 1917 John first appeared in silent movies

Silent Movies

Silent Movies are 13 solo guitar compositions by Marc Ribot released September 28, 2010 on Pi Recordings.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "For those interested in one of the more compelling and quietly provocative and graceful guitar records of 2010,...

, playing a Tibetan monk in Die Fremde (The Foreigner), 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

Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...

'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

M (1931 film)

M is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou. It was Lang's first sound film, although he had directed more than a dozen films previously....

. For F. W. Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm "F. W." Murnau was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s...

 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

1917: Die Fremde When We Leave When We Leave is a 2010 German drama film, produced, written and directed by Feo Aladag, which highlights the problem of honour killings by depicting the drama of a Turkish family living in Germany.-Cast:* Sibel Kekilli - Umay* Nizam Schiller - Cem... 1917: Hilde Warren und der Tod 1919: Peer Gynt 1919: Harakiri Harakiri (1919 film) Harakiri, or Madame Butterfly, is a 1919 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. It was one of the first Japanese-themed films depicting Japanese culture. The film was originally released in the United States and other countries as Madame Butterfly because of the source material on which it... 1919: Die Spinnen - Der goldene See (The Spiders)) 1919: Veritas vincit 1919: Unheimliche Geschichten Unheimliche Geschichten Unheimliche Geschichten is a 1932 German horror/black comedy film directed by the prolific Austrian film director Richard Oswald, starring Paul Wegener, and produced by Gabriel Pascal.... 1919: Der Knabe in Blau 1919: Der Weg der Grete Lessen 1920: Der Menschheit Anwalt 1920: Die Spinnen - Das Brillantenschiff 1920: Die entfesselte Menschheit 1920: Der König von Paris 1921: The Indian Tomb 1921: Lady Hamilton 1921: Der müde Tod 1921: Das Geheimnis der Santa Maria 1921: Die Fremde aus der Elstergasse 1922: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler Dr. Mabuse the Gambler is the first film in the Dr. Mabuse series, about the character Doctor Mabuse who featured in the novels of Norbert Jacques. It was directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1922. The film is silent and filmed mostly 16 frames per second. It would be followed by The Testament... 1922: Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin 1922: Sie und die Drei 1922: Der brennende Acker Der Brennende Acker The Burning Soil is a 1922 silent film directed by F.W. Murnau. It was made the same year as Murnau's Nosferatu and released in Germany around the same time... 1922: Die Beute der Erinnyen 1922: Der Abenteurer 1923: Der verlorene Schuh 1923: Der steinerne Reiter 1923: Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant 1923: Glanz gegen Glück 1924: Guillotine Guillotine The guillotine is a device used for carrying out :executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the head from the body... 1924: Die Nibelungen Die Nibelungen Die Nibelungen is a series of two silent fantasy films created by Austrian director Fritz Lang in 1924: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge.... 1924: The Last Laugh 1924: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Waxworks) 1924: Mein Leopold 1925: Varieté Varieté Variety is a 1925 silent drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the novel Der Eid des Stephan Huller by . Jannings portrays "Boss Huller," an ex-trapeze artist who runs a seedy carnival with his wife and child... 1925: Blitzzug der Liebe 1925: Die Verrufenen (Slums of Berlin) 1925: Der Herr ohne Wohnung 1925: Hanseaten

1926: Die Gesunkenen 1926: Die Flucht in die Nacht 1926: Die Mühle von Sanssouci 1926: Das graue Haus 1926: Des Königs Befehl 1926: Hölle der Liebe - Erlebnisse aus einem Tanzpalast 1927: Gehetzte Frauen 1927: Die Frauengasse von Algier 1927: Metropolis Metropolis (film) Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and... 1927: Frühere Verhältnisse 1927: Am Rande der Welt 1927: Der Mann ohne Kopf 1927: Petronella - Das Geheimnis der Berge 1927: Der Fluch der Vererbung 1927: Die Weber 1928: Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter 1928: So küßt nur eine Wienerin 1928: Spione Spione Spione is a German silent espionage thriller written and directed by Fritz Lang in 1928. Lang's wife, Thea von Harbou, worked as a co-writer. The film was Lang's penultimate silent film, and the first for his own production company; Fritz Lang-film GmbH. As in Lang's Mabuse films, such as Dr... 1928: Panik 1928: Alraune Alraune (1928 film) Alraune is a 1928 silent science fiction horror film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Brigitte Helm in which a prostitute is artificially inseminated with the semen of a hanged man. The story is based upon the legend of Alraune and the powers of the mandrake root to impregnate women... 1928: Mann gegen Mann Mann gegen Mann "Mann gegen Mann" is the third and final single from the Rammstein album, Rosenrot. The song is about homosexuality, and its music video is the first Rammstein video to include nudity.-Music video:... 1929: Männer ohne Beruf 1929: Somnambul 1929: Atlantik Atlantik Atlantik may refer to:*Atlantik , a soca-music band based in Trinidad and Tobago*Hamburg Atlantic Line , a shipping company later known as Deutsche Atlantik Linie... 1929: Die Mitternachts-Taxe 1929: Andreas Hofer Andreas Hofer Andreas Hofer was a Tirolean innkeeper and patriot. He was the leader of a rebellion against Napoleon's forces.... 1930: The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci is a 1930 German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Otto Gebühr.-Cast:* Otto Gebühr - Friedrich II.* Renate Müller - Blanche von Lindeneck* Hans Rehmann - Major von Lindeneck* Walter Janssen - Maltzahn... 1930: Das Land des Lächelns 1930: Lumpenball 1931: M M (1931 film) M is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou. It was Lang's first sound film, although he had directed more than a dozen films previously.... 1931: Stürmisch die Nacht 1931: Danton Danton (1931 film) Danton is a 1931 German historical drama film directed by Hans Behrendt and starring Fritz Kortner, Lucie Mannheim and Gustaf Gründgens. It depicts the dramatic downfall and execution of Georges Danton in 1794 at the hands of Maximilien Robespierre.-Cast:... 1932: Das erste Recht des Kindes 1932: F.P.1 antwortet nicht 1932: Tod über Shanghai 1933: Die Blume von Hawaii Die Blume von Hawaii The Flower of Hawaii is an operetta in three acts by Paul Abraham with a libretto by Alfred Grünwald, Fritz Löhner-Beda, and Emmerich Földes . It premiered on 24 July 1931 at the Neues Theater in Leipzig... 1933: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse The Testament of Dr. Mabuse The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a 1933 German crime film directed by Fritz Lang. The movie is a sequel to Lang's silent film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler and features many cast and crew members from Lang's previous films. The film features Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Dr. Mabuse who is in an insane asylum... 1933: Sprung in den Abgrund

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