
Birthday:
09-06-1867
Deathday:
05-15-1952 (84 years)
Birthplace:
Mannheim, Germany
Biography
Albert Bassermann (7 September 1867 – 15 May 1952) was a German stage and screen actor. He was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring. He was married to Elsa Schiff with whom he frequently performed.
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The Red Shoes
Act like Sergei Ratov
event1948 star_border 8
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In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
Escape Me Never
Act like Professor Heinrich
event1947 star_border 4.7
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A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Act like Jacques Rival
event1947 star_border 6.4
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A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
The Searching Wind
Act like Count von Stammer
event1946
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Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. There Alex marries Emily, daughter of a newspaper publisher who hires Cassie for his Paris bureau -- just before retiring from active management of his paper. Alex and Emily's son Sam, recently returned from active duty in World War II, learns the whole story one night in Washington when Emily invites Cassie to dinner. Sam has a story to tell, too.
Strange Holiday
Act like School Principal
event1945 star_border 6.4
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An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
Rhapsody in Blue
Act like Prof. Franck
event1945 star_border 6.4
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Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Since You Went Away
Act like Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden
event1944 star_border 6.5
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In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.
Madame Curie
Act like Professor Jean Perot
event1943 star_border 7.2
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Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Act like Dr. Carl Hesser
event1943 star_border 5.8
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A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Reunion in France
Act like Hugo Schroeder
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Act like General Borelski
event1942 star_border 6.2
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A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
The Moon and Sixpence
Act like Dr. Coutras
event1942 star_border 6.3
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Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
Desperate Journey
Act like Dr. Ludwig Mather
event1942 star_border 5.8
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During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
Invisible Agent
Act like Arnold Schmidt
event1942 star_border 5.8
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The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
Fly By Night
Act like Dr. Storm
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
The Shanghai Gesture
Act like Van Elst
event1941 star_border 6.2
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A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
New Wine
Act like Ludwig van Beethoven
event1941
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The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
A Woman's Face
Act like Consul Magnus Barring
event1941 star_border 6.9
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A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
I Was a Criminal
Act like Wilhelm Voight, a Shoemaker
event1941
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Aka Passport to Heaven. In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he already has a permit. He dons a captain's uniform to order a platoon of soldiers to Koepenick to take over the Town Hall to get his permit.
Escape
Act like Dr. Arthur Henning
event1940 star_border 7.4
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An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
A Dispatch from Reuters
Act like Franz Geller
event1940 star_border 5.7
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German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
Knute Rockne All American
Act like Father Julius Nieuwland
event1940 star_border 6
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The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Foreign Correspondent
Act like Van Meer
event1940 star_border 7
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American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Moon Over Burma
Act like Basil Renner
event1940 star_border 5
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The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Act like Dr. Robert Koch
event1940 star_border 6.3
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True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Heroes of the Marne
Act like Col. von Gelow
event1938 star_border 6
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Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor's daughter, but it continues in secret. WWI begins and the son becomes an aviator with the French army, and the unwed girl presents Lefrancois with an unexpected grandchild. The German army occupies the area, and the girl is serving France as a spy and securing information needed by the French to drive out the Germans. While his son is engaged in air-combat against the Germans, and the unwed mother of his grandchild is serving as a spy against their country's enemy, Lefrancois also joins the battle as a soldier.
Last Love
Act like Thomas Bruck
event1935 star_border 5
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A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.
Cadets
Act like General von Seddin
event1931
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The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after warning a fellow officer to stay away from the cadet's attractive young stepmother, lands up being charged for murder.
Inquest
Act like Dr. Konrad Bienert, Landgerichtsrat
event1931
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When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.
1914
Act like Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
event1931
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The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Dreyfus
Act like Oberst Picquart
event1930 star_border 5.6
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In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.
Alraune
Act like Professor ten Brinken
event1930 star_border 4.9
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A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.
Napoleon at St. Helena
Act like Hudson Lowe - Gouverneur von St. Helena
event1929 star_border 4.8
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Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.
Fräulein Else
Act like Dr. Alfred Thalhof
event1929 star_border 6.3
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While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
Helen of Troy
Act like Aisakos
event1924 star_border 5.6
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Helena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück. The film was based on the poem the Iliad by Homer. It was released in two separate parts: The Rape of Helen and The Fall of Troy. It was produced by Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film was made on an epic scale with thousands of extras, and large sets which rivalled those of the larger Berlin-based UFA.
Alt Heidelberg
event1923
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Prince Karl Heinz enjoys his carefree life as a student in Heidelberg. He falls in love with the beautiful Käthe and everything is fine and dandy till his father is reported very ill.
Earth Spirit
Act like Dr. Schön
event1923 star_border 5.5
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When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is endowed with tremendous erotic charisma that utterly enchants any man in her reach. Although Schön sees disaster approaching, he cannot let go of her. (Stumfilm.dk)
The Man in the Iron Mask
event1923 star_border 6
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Cardinal Richelieu gives the order that the twin brother of France's King Louis XIV should be removed from the court and taken to the country. There he is educated, without knowledge of his true ancestry, and kept as a prisoner.
Lucrezia Borgia
Act like Papst Alexander VI Rodrigo Borgia
event1922 star_border 4.4
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Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
The Loves of Pharaoh
Act like Sothis
event1922 star_border 6.6
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The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Frauenopfer
Act like Graf
event1922
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An old count has been keeping an eye on the granddaughter of his lock-keeper for quite some time. But the young Maria is in love with the young painter Walter, who is only moderately gifted as an artist. The two marry and become parents of a child. However, the count does not want to let go of his desire for Mary and now chooses another way to gain her favor.
Author: Ulf Kjell Gür
Dolls of Death
Act like Graf Robert
event1920
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Crime film based on Nikolaus Lenau's poem "Die Marionetten."
Dr. Schotte
Act like Dr. Schotte
event1918
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A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.
Der Andere
Act like Dr. Hallers
event1913 star_border 4.6
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A man has an accident while out riding his horse and soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.
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