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Felix Bressart
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Felix Bressart
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1892-03-02,Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Chernyshevskoe, Russia]
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

To Be or Not to Be

7.823

To Be or Not to Be
1942-03-06

The Three from the Filling Station

6.1

The Three from the Filling Station
1930-09-15

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

0

The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger
1930-08-13

7.5

Ninotchka
1939-11-23

The Shop Around the Corner

8.1

The Shop Around the Corner
1940-01-12

Take One False Step

5.5

Take One False Step
1949-08-14

5.8

Comrade X
1940-12-13

Above Suspicion

6.5

Above Suspicion
1943-05-31

5.9

Crossroads
1942-07-23

Edison, the Man

6.6

Edison, the Man
1940-05-10

It All Came True

5.8

It All Came True
1940-04-06

Third Finger, Left Hand

6.8

Third Finger, Left Hand
1940-10-11

Blossoms in the Dust

6.5

Blossoms in the Dust
1941-08-15

The Seventh Cross

6.7

The Seventh Cross
1944-07-24

7.4

Escape
1940-11-01

Dangerous Partners

6.3

Dangerous Partners
1945-06-07

4.4

Blonde Fever
1944-12-05

6.5

Swanee River
1939-12-29

I've Always Loved You

6.4

I've Always Loved You
1946-12-02

0

Peter
1934-12-19

Wie d'Warret würkt

0

Wie d'Warret würkt
1933-12-01

5.8

Bitter Sweet
1940-11-08

Married Bachelor

5.8

Married Bachelor
1941-10-16

5.1

Bridal Suite
1939-05-26

7.5

No More Love
1931-07-26

Terror of the Garrison

0

Terror of the Garrison
1931-04-23

The Lucky Top Hat

0

The Lucky Top Hat
1932-08-18

The Office Manager

0

The Office Manager
1931-11-19

Ding Dong Williams

5

Ding Dong Williams
1946-04-15

Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du

0

Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du
1930-12-15

The Tender Relatives

6

The Tender Relatives
1930-08-28

Three Hearts for Julia

6

Three Hearts for Julia
1943-05-21

Excursion into Life

5

Excursion into Life
1931-09-30

6.5

Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25

Her Sister's Secret

6.5

Her Sister's Secret
1946-09-23

There is a woman who will never forget you

0

There is a woman who will never forget you
1930-03-27

Everything for the Company

0

Everything for the Company
1935-04-04

Fanfare about love

0

Fanfare about love
1931-09-03

5

Kathleen
1941-12-18

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

7.3

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939-03-24

Three Days in the Guardhouse

5.5

Three Days in the Guardhouse
1930-11-10

Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben

0

Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben
1936-05-21

Liebe im Kuhstall

0

Liebe im Kuhstall
1928-10-19

5

True Jacob
1931-03-16

Private Secretary

0

Private Secretary
1931-01-16

8

Song of Russia
1944-02-10

Greenwich Village

6

Greenwich Village
1944-09-27

Don't Be a Sucker!

6.786

Don't Be a Sucker!
1943-07-04

The Thrill of Brazil

6

The Thrill of Brazil
1946-09-06

...und wer küßt mich?

5.8

...und wer küßt mich?
1933-03-07

6.8

Without Love
1945-03-22

5.7

Iceland
1942-09-21

Salto in die Seligkeit

0

Salto in die Seligkeit
1934-10-31

6.5

A Song Is Born
1948-10-19

0

Old Song
1930-10-15

Portrait of Jennie

7.1

Portrait of Jennie
1948-12-25

C'était un musicien

0

C'était un musicien
1934-05-11

Visul lui Tanase

6

Visul lui Tanase
1932-01-01

Holzapfel Knows Everything

0

Holzapfel Knows Everything
1932-02-05

Four and a Half Musketeers

0

Four and a Half Musketeers
1935-10-01

Ball at the Savoy

7

Ball at the Savoy
1935-04-11

Mr. and Mrs. North

4.5

Mr. and Mrs. North
1942-01-23