{{short description|German actor (1884–1960)}} {{Infobox person | image = Victor Janson by Alexander Binder.jpg | image_size = 250px | name = Victor Janson | birth_name = Victor Arthur Eduard Janson | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1884|09|25}} | birth_place = Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (present day Latvia) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|06|29|1884|09|25|df=yes}} | death_place = Schmargendorf, East Germany | other_names = Viktor Janson | occupation = Actor, film director | years_active = 1904–1954 }} '''Victor Arthur Eduard Janson''' ({{langx|lv|Viktors Artūrs Eduards Jansons}}; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvian ethnicity.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090119135605/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/15075 BFI.org]</ref>
==Selected filmography== ===Actor=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''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) {{div col end}}
===Director=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''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) * ''Black Forest Girl'' (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) {{div col end}}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0418131}}
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