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Felix Bressart‌

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Felix Bressart

Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Chernyshevskoe, Russia]

Felix Bressart

Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Chernyshevskoe, Russia]

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1892-03-02

Popularity

star2.1

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Felix Bressart (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1949) was a German-American actor of stage and screen. Felix Bressart (pronounced "BRESS-ert") was born in East Prussia, Germany (now part of Russia) and was already a very experienced stage actor when he had his film debut in 1928. He started off as a supporting actor, e.g. as the Bailiff in the box-office hit Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930), but had soon established himself in leading roles of minor movies. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Jewish-born Bressart had to leave Germany and continued his career in German-speaking movies in Austria, where Jewish artists were still relatively safe. After no fewer than 30 films in eight years, he emigrated to the United States. One of Bressart's former European colleagues was Joe Pasternak, now a successful Hollywood producer. Bressart's first American film was Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939), a vehicle for Universal Pictures' top attraction, Deanna Durbin. Pasternak also selected the reliable Bressart to perform in a screen test opposite Pasternak's newest discovery, Gloria Jean. The influential German community in Hollywood helped to establish Bressart in America, as his earliest American movies were directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Henry Koster, and Wilhelm Thiele (director of Die Drei von der Tankstelle). Bressart scored a great success in Lubitsch's Ninotchka, produced at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM signed Bressart to a studio contract in 1939. Most of his MGM work consisted of featured roles in major films like Edison, the Man. He combined his mildly inflected East European accent with a soft-spoken delivery to create kindly, friendly characters, as in Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be, in which he sensitively recites Shylock's famous "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech from The Merchant of Venice. Lubitsch also directed Bressart to similar effect in The Shop Around the Corner. Bressart soon became a popular character actor in films like Blossoms in the Dust (1941), The Seventh Cross (1944), and Without Love (1945). Perhaps his largest role was in RKO Radio Pictures' "B" musical comedy Ding Dong Williams, filmed in 1945. Bressart, billed third, played the bemused supervisor of a movie studio's music department, and appeared in formal wear to conduct Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu." After almost 40 Hollywood pictures, Felix Bressart suddenly died of leukemia at the age of 57. His last film was My Friend Irma (1949), the movie version of a popular radio show. Bressart died during production, forcing the producers to finish the film with Hans Conried. In the final film, Conried speaks throughout, but Bressart is still seen in the long shots. Description above from the Wikipedia article Felix Bressart, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

Movie Credits

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be‌
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calendar 1942

The Three from the Filling Station

The Three from the Filling Station‌
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calendar 1930

The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger

The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger‌
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calendar 1930

Ninotchka

Ninotchka‌
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calendar 1939

The Shop Around the Corner

The Shop Around the Corner‌
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calendar 1940

Take One False Step

Take One False Step‌
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calendar 1949

Comrade X

Comrade X‌
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calendar 1940

Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion‌
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calendar 1943

Crossroads

Crossroads‌
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calendar 1942

Edison, the Man

Edison, the Man‌
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calendar 1940

It All Came True

It All Came True‌
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calendar 1940

Third Finger, Left Hand

Third Finger, Left Hand‌
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calendar 1940

Blossoms in the Dust

Blossoms in the Dust‌
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calendar 1941

The Seventh Cross

The Seventh Cross‌
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calendar 1944

Escape

Escape‌
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calendar 1940

Dangerous Partners

Dangerous Partners‌
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calendar 1945

Blonde Fever

Blonde Fever‌
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calendar 1944

Swanee River

Swanee River‌
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calendar 1939

I've Always Loved You

I've Always Loved You‌
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calendar 1946

Peter

Peter‌
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calendar 1934

Wie d'Warret würkt

Wie d'Warret würkt‌
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calendar 1933

Bitter Sweet

Bitter Sweet‌
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calendar 1940

Married Bachelor

Married Bachelor‌
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calendar 1941

Bridal Suite

Bridal Suite‌
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calendar 1939

No More Love

No More Love‌
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calendar 1931

Terror of the Garrison

Terror of the Garrison‌
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calendar 1931

The Lucky Top Hat

The Lucky Top Hat‌
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calendar 1932

The Office Manager

The Office Manager‌
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calendar 1931

Ding Dong Williams

Ding Dong Williams‌
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calendar 1946

Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du

Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du‌
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calendar 1930

Die zärtlichen Verwandten

Die zärtlichen Verwandten‌
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calendar 1930

Three Hearts for Julia

Three Hearts for Julia‌
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calendar 1943

Excursion into Life

Excursion into Life‌
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calendar 1931

Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl‌
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calendar 1941

Her Sister's Secret

Her Sister's Secret‌
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calendar 1946

There is a woman who will never forget you

There is a woman who will never forget you‌
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calendar 1930

Everything for the Company

Everything for the Company‌
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calendar 1935

Fanfare about love

Fanfare about love‌
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calendar 1931

Kathleen

Kathleen‌
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calendar 1941

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up‌
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calendar 1939

Three days of middle arrest

Three days of middle arrest‌
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calendar 1930

Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben

Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben‌
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calendar 1936

Liebe im Kuhstall

Liebe im Kuhstall‌
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calendar 1928

True Jacob

True Jacob‌
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calendar 1931

Private Secretary

Private Secretary‌
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calendar 1931

Song of Russia

Song of Russia‌
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calendar 1944

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village‌
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calendar 1944

Don't Be a Sucker!

Don't Be a Sucker!‌
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calendar 1943

The Thrill of Brazil

The Thrill of Brazil‌
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calendar 1946

...und wer küßt mich?

...und wer küßt mich?‌
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calendar 1933

Without Love

Without Love‌
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calendar 1945

Iceland

Iceland‌
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calendar 1942

Salto in die Seligkeit

Salto in die Seligkeit‌
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calendar 1934

A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born‌
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calendar 1948

Old Song

Old Song‌
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calendar 1930

Portrait of Jennie

Portrait of Jennie‌
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calendar 1948

C'était un musicien

C'était un musicien‌
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calendar 1934

Visul lui Tanase

Visul lui Tanase‌
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calendar 1932

Holzapfel Knows Everything

Holzapfel Knows Everything‌
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calendar 1932

Four and a Half Musketeers

Four and a Half Musketeers‌
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calendar 1935

Ball at the Savoy

Ball at the Savoy‌
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calendar 1935

Mr. and Mrs. North

Mr. and Mrs. North‌
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calendar 1942

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