Albert Bassermann

Albert Bassermann

Born: September 6, 1867
Died: May 15, 1952
in Mannheim, Germany
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.

Movies for Albert Bassermann...

The Red Shoes
Title: The Red Shoes
Character: Sergei Ratov
Released: September 6, 1948
Type: Movie
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.
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Escape Me Never
Title: Escape Me Never
Character: Professor Heinrich
Released: November 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Title: The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Character: Jacques Rival
Released: April 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
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The Searching Wind
Title: The Searching Wind
Character: Count von Stammer
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
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Strange Holiday
Title: Strange Holiday
Character: School Principal
Released: October 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
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Rhapsody in Blue
Title: Rhapsody in Blue
Character: Prof. Franck
Released: June 27, 1945
Type: Movie
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
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Since You Went Away
Title: Since You Went Away
Character: Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden
Released: June 30, 1944
Type: Movie
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.
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Madame Curie
Title: Madame Curie
Character: Professor Jean Perot
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Title: Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Character: Dr. Carl Hesser
Released: June 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: Hugo Schroeder
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: General Borelski
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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The Moon and Sixpence
Title: The Moon and Sixpence
Character: Dr. Coutras
Released: October 27, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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Desperate Journey
Title: Desperate Journey
Character: Dr. Ludwig Mather
Released: September 26, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: Arnold Schmidt
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Fly-By-Night
Title: Fly-By-Night
Character: Dr. Storm
Released: January 19, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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The Shanghai Gesture
Title: The Shanghai Gesture
Character: Van Elst
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
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New Wine
Title: New Wine
Character: Ludwig van Beethoven
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
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A Woman's Face
Title: A Woman's Face
Character: Consul Magnus Barring
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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I Was a Criminal
Title: I Was a Criminal
Character: Wilhelm Voight, a Shoemaker
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Dr. Arthur Henning
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Franz Geller
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Father Julius Nieuwland
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Van Meer
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Moon Over Burma
Title: Moon Over Burma
Character: Basil Renner
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Dr. Robert Koch
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Heroes of the Marne
Title: Heroes of the Marne
Character: Col. von Gelow
Released: October 30, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Last Love
Title: Last Love
Character: Thomas Bruck
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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A Certain Mr. Gran
Title: A Certain Mr. Gran
Character: Tschernikoff
Released: August 15, 1933
Type: Movie
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Cadets
Title: Cadets
Character: General von Seddin
Released: December 21, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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Inquest
Title: Inquest
Character: Dr. Konrad Bienert, Landgerichtsrat
Released: April 19, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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1914
Title: 1914
Character: Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Released: January 20, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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Dreyfus
Title: Dreyfus
Character: Oberst Picquart
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
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.
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Alraune
Title: Alraune
Character: Professor ten Brinken
Released: March 2, 1930
Type: Movie
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.
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Napoleon at St. Helena
Title: Napoleon at St. Helena
Character: Hudson Lowe - Gouverneur von St. Helena
Released: November 7, 1929
Type: Movie
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.
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Fräulein Else
Title: Fräulein Else
Character: Dr. Alfred Thalhof
Released: March 7, 1929
Type: Movie
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.
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Wenn das Herz der Jugend spricht
Title: Wenn das Herz der Jugend spricht
Character: Professor Imhof
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
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Helen of Troy
Title: Helen of Troy
Character: Aisakos
Released: January 21, 1924
Type: Movie
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.
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Alt Heidelberg
Title: Alt Heidelberg
Released: October 21, 1923
Type: Movie
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.
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Earth Spirit
Title: Earth Spirit
Character: Dr. Schön
Released: February 22, 1923
Type: Movie
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)
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Released: January 2, 1923
Type: Movie
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.
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Lucrezia Borgia
Title: Lucrezia Borgia
Character: Papst Alexander VI Rodrigo Borgia
Released: October 20, 1922
Type: Movie
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.
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The Loves of Pharaoh
Title: The Loves of Pharaoh
Character: Sothis
Released: February 21, 1922
Type: Movie
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
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Frauenopfer
Title: Frauenopfer
Character: Graf
Released: February 15, 1922
Type: Movie
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
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Die kleine Dagmar
Title: Die kleine Dagmar
Released: September 9, 1921
Type: Movie
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Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy
Title: Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy
Released: May 7, 1920
Type: Movie
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Die Stimme
Title: Die Stimme
Released: March 26, 1920
Type: Movie
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Die Duplizität der Ereignisse
Title: Die Duplizität der Ereignisse
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Der letzte Zeuge
Title: Der letzte Zeuge
Released: August 8, 1919
Type: Movie
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Lorenzo Burghardt
Title: Lorenzo Burghardt
Released: December 13, 1918
Type: Movie
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Dr. Schotte
Title: Dr. Schotte
Character: Dr. Schotte
Released: August 30, 1918
Type: Movie
A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.
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Die Brüder von Zaarden
Title: Die Brüder von Zaarden
Released: August 10, 1918
Type: Movie
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Vater und Sohn
Title: Vater und Sohn
Released: July 26, 1918
Type: Movie
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Der eiserne Wille
Title: Der eiserne Wille
Released: December 5, 1917
Type: Movie
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Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben
Title: Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben
Released: September 14, 1917
Type: Movie
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Herr und Diener
Title: Herr und Diener
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
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Urteil des Arztes
Title: Urteil des Arztes
Released: December 13, 1914
Type: Movie
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Der letzte Tag
Title: Der letzte Tag
Character: Prof. Osterode
Released: September 19, 1913
Type: Movie
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Der Andere
Title: Der Andere
Character: Dr. Hallers
Released: January 21, 1913
Type: Movie
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.