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- Birth nameGeorg Jacobsohn
- Georg John was born on July 23, 1879 in Schmiegel, Poland. He was an actor, known for M (1931), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924). He died on November 18, 1941 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Like many other actors of the silent movie era he began his career at the theater where he started his acting on smaller stages.
- In 1914, John worked as an actor and producer for Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna.
- Being a Jew, John was deported in autumn 1941 to the Lodz Ghetto where he died on 18 November 1941 at the age of 62.
- He made his film debut with "Ramara" (16) and in the next years he became a demanded actor who often impersonated strange figures.
- 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.
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