Michael Visaroff
Biography
Michael Visaroff was a Russian-born character actor whose stage and screen work took place in the United States. Born in Moscow, he trained at the Russian Principal Dramatic School. His early career was in the theater: in July 1922 he arrived in the U.S. with a company from Moscow's Kamerny Theatre, which had a fourteen-week leave from Russia and planned to mount twelve plays on Broadway, one each week. He then moved into film and appeared in more than 110 pictures released from 1925 through 1952. His most familiar screen role was a small uncredited part in Dracula (1931), in which he played a nervous Hungarian innkeeper who warns Renfield about the real existence of vampires. Visaroff died in 1951.
58years old at death
- Born Moscow
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Also credited as Mikhail Semyonovich Vizarov and Michael Simeon Visaroff
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 16 years1927 to 1943
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First role
In July 1922, Visaroff arrived in the United States with a group from Moscow's Kamerny Theatre. The group had 14 weeks of leave from Russia and planned to stage 12 plays on Broadway, each for one week.
Big break
Visaroff was best known for playing a nervous Hungarian innkeeper in an early scene of Dracula (1931), uncredited. As Renfield travels to meet the Count, the innkeeper warns him that vampires really exist.
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Josef von Sternberg directed two of these films. Five actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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