Albert Bassermann
Acting
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.
Born: September 6, 1867
Place of Birth: Mannheim, Germany
Known For
The Red Shoes
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
Escape
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.
Madame Curie
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.
The Man in the Iron Mask
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
Foreign Correspondent
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.
A Woman's Face
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Since You Went Away
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.
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
The Loves of Pharaoh
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Fly By Night
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.
Filmography
as Sergei Ratov
as Professor Heinrich
as Jacques Rival
as Count von Stammer
as School Principal
as Prof. Franck
as Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden
as Professor Jean Perot
as Dr. Carl Hesser
as General Hugo Schroeder
as General Borelski
as Dr. Coutras
as Dr. Ludwig Mather
as Arnold Schmidt
as Dr. Storm
as Van Elst
as Ludwig van Beethoven
as Consul Magnus Barring
as Wilhelm Voight, a Shoemaker
as Dr. Arthur Henning
as Franz Geller
as Father Julius Nieuwland
as Van Meer
as Basil Renner
as Dr. Robert Koch
as Col. von Gelow
as Thomas Bruck
as Tschernikoff
as Dr. Konrad Bienert, Landgerichtsrat
as Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
as Oberst Picquart
as Professor ten Brinken
as Dr. Alfred Thalhof
as Professor Imhof
as Aisakos
as Dr. Schön
as Papst Alexander VI Rodrigo Borgia
as Sothis
as Dr. Schotte
as Prof. Osterode
as Dr. Hallers