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Biography by AllMovie. German actor Felix Bressart made his stage debut in 1914, and his film bow in 1928's Liebe Im Kuhstall (1928). Forced out of Germany by the Nazis, Bressart came to the United States in 1936, concentrating on theatrical work until his first American film, Swanee River (1939). Two of his best screen roles were for director ...
Felix Bressart. Actor. Born March 2, 1892 in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Chernyshevskoe, Russia] With his lanky frame, big nose, toothbrush moustache and horn-rimmed glasses he looked like someone had decided to cross Groucho Marx with Albert Einstein. The perennial scene-stealer Felix Bressart had two distinct careers as a comic ...
1935 Viereinhalb Musketiere ( Szöke Szakall, Otto Walburg, Felix Bressart) Video Item Preview
In 1948, Felix played Pete in Portrait of Jennie and Prof. Gerkikoff in Howard Hawks' musical remake of Ball of Fire: A Song Is Born with Danny Kaye and Virgina Mayo. While working on 1949's My Friend Irma, Felix died suddenly on March 17th of leukemia. He was 57.
Actor. Born in East Prussia, Germany, he made his stage debut in 1914 and his screen debut in Love in Kuhstall (1928). Being forced out of Germany in 1936, he starred in his first American film, Swanee River (1939) and went on to a successful Hollywood film career.
Bressart’s acting debut came in 1914 as Malvolio in "Twelfth Night," and he went on to act in Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. He was an experienced stage actor when he had his film debut in 1927. He began as a supporting actor, for example as the bailiff in the boxoffice hit Die Drei von der Tankstelle ...
