Felix Bressart: Biografía, Filmografía y actores con los que más ha trabajado

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Información personal

Nombre: Felix Bressart

Trabajo principal: Interpretación

Edad: 133 años

Lugar de nacimiento: Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Chernyshevskoe, Russia]

Fecha de nacimiento: 02 de marzo de 1892


Películas destacadas de Felix Bressart

Biografía de 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 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.

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Actores que trabajaron con Felix Bressart

Estos son los actores con los que más ha compartido proyectos.

Filmografía completa de Felix Bressart

1949

Portada de Un paso en falso

Un paso en falso

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Professor Morris Avrum
Calificación: 3.4/10

1948

Portada de Jennie

Jennie

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Pete
Calificación: 3.0/10

1946

Portada de La gran pasión

La gran pasión

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Frederick Hassman
Calificación: 2.6/10

Portada de Her Sister's Secret

Her Sister's Secret

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Pepe
Calificación: 2.5/10

Portada de The Thrill of Brazil

The Thrill of Brazil

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Ludwig Kriegspiel
Calificación: 2.9/10

Portada de Ding Dong Williams

Ding Dong Williams

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Hugo Meyerheld
Calificación: 5.0/10

1945

Portada de Dangerous Partners

Dangerous Partners

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Professor Budlow
Calificación: 4.8/10

Portada de Sin amor

Sin amor

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Prof. Ginza
Calificación: 2.5/10

1944

Portada de Blonde Fever

Blonde Fever

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Johnny
Calificación: 3.9/10

Portada de Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Hofer
Calificación: 2.2/10

Portada de La séptima cruz

La séptima cruz

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Poldi Schlamm
Calificación: 2.9/10

Portada de Song of Russia

Song of Russia

Tipo: Película
Personaje: Petrov
Calificación: 3.7/10

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