Victor Janson
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson (Viktors Artūrs Eduards Jansons; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity.
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Victor Janson

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- Name
- Victor Janson
- Birth Name
- Victor Arthur Eduard Janson
- Born
- 25 September 1884
- Birthplace
- Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (present day Latvia)
- Died
- 29 June 1960
- Place of death
- Schmargendorf, East Germany
- Occupation
- Actor, film director
- Nationality
- Germany
- Fields
- acting · film direction
- Languages
- German · Latvian
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Victor Arthur Eduard Janson (Viktors Artūrs Eduards Jansons; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity.
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Key facts
• Name — Victor Janson • Birth Name — Victor Arthur Eduard Janson • Born — 25 September 1884 • Birthplace — Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (present day Latvia) • Died — 29 June 1960 • Place of death — Schmargendorf, East Germany • Other Names — Viktor Janson • Occupation — Actor, film director • Years Active — 1904–1954
Actor
Actor
• Your Dearest Enemy (1916) • When Four Do the Same (1917) • Carmen (1918) • The Ballet Girl (1918) • The Seeds of Life (1918) • Ferdinand Lassalle (1918) • The Yellow Ticket (1918) • My Wife, the Movie Star (1919) • The Dagger of Malaya (1919) • One or the Other (1919) • Superstition (1919) • The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers (1919) • Countess Doddy (1919) • The Howling Wolf (1919) • The Merry Husband (1919) • The Panther Bride (1919) • The Oyster Princess (1919) • The Woman at the Crossroads (1919) • The Housing Shortage (1920) • The Last Kolczaks (1920) • The Secret of the Mummy (1921) • Love at the Wheel (1921) • The Wildcat (1921) • The Girl with the Mask (1922) • Das Milliardensouper (1923) • Niniche (1925) • Circus Romanelli (1926) • The Ones Down There (1926) • The Divorcée (1926) • At the Edge of the World (1927) • Holzapfel Knows Everything (1932) • So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (1938) • The Leghorn Hat (1939) • Men Are That Way (1939) • Stars of Variety (1939) • The Unfaithful Eckehart (1940) • The Way to Freedom (1941) • We Make Music (1942) • The Great Love (1942) • Rembrandt (1942) • Back Then (1943) • Come Back to Me (1944) • Dog Days (1944) • Viennese Girls (1945) • A Man Like Maximilian (1945) • Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1946) • Ghost in the Castle (1947) • The Court Concert (1948) • Journey to Happiness (1948) • Law of Love (1949) • The Marriage of Figaro (1949) • Heart of Stone (1950) • Professor Nachtfalter (1951) • Torreani (1951) • The Prince of Pappenheim (1952) • When the Heath Dreams at Night (1952) • Hit Parade (1953) • The Rose of Stamboul (1953) • Such a Charade (1953)
Director
Director
• The Yellow Ticket (1918) • The Man of Action (1919) • The Lady in Black (1920) • The Secret of the Mummy (1921) • Love at the Wheel (1921) • The Girl with the Mask (1922) • Das Milliardensouper (1923) • Niniche (1925) • The Dealer from Amsterdam (1925) • The Queen of the Baths (1926) • The Ones Down There (1926) • Sword and Shield (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1926) • The Divorcée (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1926) • A Girl with Temperament (1928) • Vienna, City of My Dreams (1928) • The Circus Princess (1929) • Schwarzwaldmädel (1929) • The Black Domino (1929) • Hungarian Nights (1929) • Danube Waltz (1930) • The Woman They Talk About (1931) • The Beggar Student (1931) • Once There Was a Waltz (1932) • The Blue of Heaven (1932) • Distorting at the Resort (1932) • The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel (1933) • The Tsarevich (1933) • A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1934) • The Voice of Love (1934) • The Blonde Carmen (1935) • She and the Three (1935) • Girls in White (1936) • Rendezvous in Vienna (1936) • The Coral Princess (1937) • Who's Kissing Madeleine? (1939)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the heading Victor Arthur Eduard Janson. His recorded languages were German and Latvian.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1932
ERASE UNA VEZ UN VALS ES WAR EINMAL EIN WALZER ( SUBTITULOS ESPAÑ OL), Alemania, Victor Janson, 1932 is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1960
Victor Janson died at Wilmersdorf.
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Riga.
Birth place
Wilmersdorf.
Death place
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- “Victor Janson”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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