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 Bressarts former European colleagues was Joe Pasternak, now a successful Hollywood producer. Bressarts 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 Pasternaks 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 Lubitschs 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 Lubitschs To Be or Not to Be, in which he sensitively recites Shylocks 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 studios music department, and appeared in formal wear to conduct Chopins 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.
Gerichtsvollzieher
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Pirovitch
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Dr. Andre Tessier
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The Great Boldini
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August "Gussie" Winkel
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Dr. Max Breslar
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Fritz Keller
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Professor Budlow
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Johnny
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Henry Kleber
Film 1939
Grandfather
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Mr. Schramek
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Max
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Professor Milic
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Maxl
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Jean
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Musketier Kulicke
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Gottfried Jonathan Bankbeamter
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Joachim Reißnagel
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Hugo Meyerheld
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Richard
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Onkel Emil
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Anton Ottoway
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Hirsekorn - Schauspieler und Chauffeur
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Major Fröschen
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Philipp Sonndorfer
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Music Teacher
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Franz Nowotni
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Max Kaspar
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Der Gerichtsvollzieher
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Böcklein
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Bankdiener Hasel
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Petrov
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Anti-Nazi Teacher
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Ludwig Kriegspiel
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Direktor Ritter
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Prof. Ginza
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Papa Jonsdottir
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Kriegel, Geheimdetektiv
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Jacques
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Baron Vandernyff
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Johannes Georg Holzapfel
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Professor Volksmann
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Birowitsch
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Arthur Talbot
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