Felix Bressart
Felix Bressart (born 2 March 1892 in Eydtkuhnen, ( East Prussia ), † 17 March 1949 in Los Angeles, California ) was a German actor.
Life
After acting lessons with Maria Moissi in Berlin, he was in the autumn of 1914 his debut at the Stadttheater Würzburg, where he also received his first appointment in 1915. After the First World War, he embarked on a theater tour through Bavaria, in 1922 he came to the German Theatre in Hanover, 1922 to the Albert Theatre in Dresden, 1925 at the Theater in der Josefstadt under Max Reinhardt. In 1927 he moved to Berlin, where he played in the theater in Königgrätzer road, starting in 1932 at the German theater artists and 1933 in Comedy House and on the cabaret comedian.
From 1930 he worked in numerous film comedies. After he was The Three not occurred from the gas station than softening bailiff in the musical film, he received in the military comedy Three days means arrest the lead role as Fusilier Nowotni. In The Lord Office Manager (1931 ), he embodied the pedantic office manager thumbtack.
After Hitler came to power in 1933, he emigrated as a Jew in Switzerland, then to Vienna and Budapest. Further stations were Amsterdam, Paris, and in 1938 the United States. There he played in 1939 his most important role in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka as insecure Soviet political commissar Buljanoff on the side of Alexander and Sig Ruman Granach.
Bressart, married to Frieda Lehner, received his doctorate in America as a doctor of medicine and worked alongside his acting work as a medical practitioner. He died of leukemia.