Biography
Georg John (born Georg Jacobsohn) was a German stage and film actor. He began his theatre career around 1900 on smaller stages and travelling companies, with engagements in Wilhelmshaven, Altona, Bochum and elsewhere; in 1914 he worked as an actor and producer at the Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna. He made his film debut in the mid-1910s and appeared regularly in silent cinema.
John is known for character roles in films by Fritz Lang and F. W. Murnau, including the beggar in Destiny (1921), Pesch in Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Mime and Alberich in Die Nibelungen (1924), the night watchman in The Last Laugh (1924), and the blind panhandler in M (1931). He also appeared in Metropolis (1927) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). As a Jew, he was deported to the Łódź Ghetto in 1941, where he died on 18 November.
