Felix Bressart
Biography
Felix Bressart was a German-born stage and screen actor who built a career in Europe before moving to Hollywood. Born in East Prussia, he made his acting debut in 1914 as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and acted across Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, and Yugoslavia before his film debut in 1927. He started in supporting parts and moved into leading roles in smaller movies, appearing in roughly 40 German films. He left Germany in 1933 and continued in Austrian productions before settling in the United States in 1936. At MGM he became a fixture in supporting roles in major pictures, among them Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Edison, the Man (1940), Comrade X (1940), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), To Be or Not to Be (1942), The Seventh Cross (1944) and Without Love (1945). He later worked freelance for other studios and appeared in close to 40 Hollywood films. He died in 1949.
54years old at death
- Born Chernyshevskoye
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 14
- Career span
- 9 years1939 to 1948
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First role
Bressart first acted in 1914, taking the role of Malvolio in Twelfth Night. His career later took him to Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia.
First role
Bressart was already an experienced stage actor by the time he made his film debut in 1927, and he began in supporting parts such as the bailiff in the hit Die Drei von der Tankstelle.
Big break
Bressart's first American movie was Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939), a Deanna Durbin vehicle. Joe Pasternak, a former European colleague of Bressart's, picked him to appear in a screen test with Pasternak's newest discovery, Gloria Jean.
A first
After leaving MGM in 1945, Bressart took his largest role in the RKO musical comedy Ding Dong Williams, playing a movie studio's music department supervisor and conducting an orchestral version of Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in formal wear.
Felix Bressart movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Ernst Lubitsch directed three of these films. Sig Ruman appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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George Davis's page
Charles Arnt's page
All films by Ernst Lubitsch
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- Hume CronynBlonde Fever (1944) and The Seventh Cross (1944)
- Gloria GrahameWithout Love (1945) and Blonde Fever (1944)
- Grant MitchellEdison, the Man (1940) and It All Came True (1940)
- Sara HadenAbove Suspicion (1943) and The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
- Edwin MaxwellThe Shop Around the Corner (1940) and Ninotchka (1939)
- Cecil CunninghamAbove Suspicion (1943) and Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
- Jessica TandyBlonde Fever (1944) and The Seventh Cross (1944)
- Hedy LamarrCrossroads (1942) and Comrade X (1940)
- George LesseyBlossoms in the Dust (1941) and Edison, the Man (1940)
- Sven Hugo BorgAbove Suspicion (1943) and Comrade X (1940)
- Alexander GranachThe Seventh Cross (1944) and Ninotchka (1939)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
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