Felix Bressart
Known for Acting · 63 credits
- Born
- 1892-03-02
- Died
- 1949-03-17
- Place of birth
- Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Chernyshevskoe, Russia]
- Also known as
- Феликс Брессарт
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.
Known For
Movies (63)
The Shop Around the Corner
1940
as Pirovitch
Ninotchka
1939
as Comrade Buljanoff
To Be or Not to Be
1942
as Greenberg
Portrait of Jennie
1948
as Pete
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
as Mischa
Kathleen
1941
as Mr. Schoner
Song of Russia
1944
as Petrov
Iceland
1942
as Papa Jonsdottir
Comrade X
1940
as Igor Yahupitz / Vanya
Married Bachelor
1941
as Professor Milic
Above Suspicion
1943
as Mr. A. Werner
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
as Dr. Max Breslar
A Song Is Born
1948
as Professor Gerkikoff
Crossroads
1942
as Dr. Andre Tessier
Without Love
1945
as Prof. Ginza
Bridal Suite
1939
as Maxl
Comradeship
1931
as Café Doorman (uncredited)
Don't Be a Sucker!
1943
as Anti-Nazi Teacher
No More Love
1931
as Jean
Swanee River
1939
as Henry Kleber
Escape
1940
as Fritz Keller
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
as Music Teacher
Edison, the Man
1940
as Michael Simon
Third Finger, Left Hand
1940
as August "Gussie" Winkel
Take One False Step
1949
as Professor Morris Avrum
I've Always Loved You
1946
as Frederick Hassman
The Seventh Cross
1944
as Poldi Schlamm
The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger
1930
It All Came True
1940
as The Great Boldini
Four and a Half Musketeers
1935
as Professor Volksmann
Bitter Sweet
1940
as Max
Blonde Fever
1944
as Johnny
The Lucky Top Hat
1932
as Gottfried Jonathan Bankbeamter
Excursion into Life
1931
as Hirsekorn - Schauspieler und Chauffeur
Peter
1934
as Grandfather
Fanfare about love
1931
as Major Fröschen
Mr. and Mrs. North
1942
as Arthur Talbot
C'était un musicien
1934
as Baron Vandernyff
Ball at the Savoy
1935
as Birowitsch
The Three from the Filling Station
1930
as Gerichtsvollzieher
Greenwich Village
1944
as Hofer
Everything for the Company
1935
as Philipp Sonndorfer
The Thrill of Brazil
1946
as Ludwig Kriegspiel
Three Hearts for Julia
1943
as Anton Ottoway
Three Days in the Guardhouse
1930
as Franz Nowotni
Ding Dong Williams
1946
as Hugo Meyerheld
Dangerous Partners
1945
as Professor Budlow
The Office Manager
1931
as Joachim Reißnagel
True Jacob
1931
as Böcklein
Visul lui Tanase
1932
as star
Salto in die Seligkeit
1934
as Kriegel, Geheimdetektiv
Her Sister's Secret
1946
as Pepe
Terror of the Garrison
1931
as Musketier Kulicke
Old Song
1930
as Jacques
Liebe im Kuhstall
1928
as Der Gerichtsvollzieher
The Private Secretary
1931
as Bankdiener Hasel
Holzapfel Knows Everything
1932
as Johannes Georg Holzapfel
The Tender Relatives
1930
as Onkel Emil
There is a woman who will never forget you
1930
...und wer küßt mich?
1933
as Direktor Ritter
Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du
1930
as Richard
Wie d'Warret würkt
1933
as Mr. Schramek
Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben
1936
as Max Kaspar
About Felix Bressart
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 Br… With 63 credits spanning from 1928 to 1949, Felix Bressart has appeared in 63 films and 0 TV shows.
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- The Shop Around the Corner (1940) — as Pirovitch
- Ninotchka (1939) — as Comrade Buljanoff
- To Be or Not to Be (1942) — as Greenberg
- Portrait of Jennie (1948) — as Pete
- Ziegfeld Girl (1941) — as Mischa
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