Carl Brisson
Acting
Biography
Denmark native Carl Brisson (born Carl Frederik Ejnar Pedersen) was a stage and film actor in England and the United States.
Born: December 24, 1893
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Known For
The Manxman
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
All the King's Horses
A Hollywood actor visits a mythical country where he looks like the king and confuses the queen.
The Ring
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
Murder at the Vanities
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Triumph of the Heart
In a small mine town north of the circle, Torsten lives, working with his sister Eva and comrade Lars, who is engaged to Eva. The town's bat-owner has a daughter, Märta, who, after trying out the big city life, has returned to the village for a while, and begins to flirt openly with Torsten, but also with Lars. Märta hears of an old gold treasure that will be hidden somewhere in the mountains, trying to seduce both of them and seek both friends to find out the treasure. Neither Lars nor Torsten knows the plans or swarms of others, but Eva notices how Märta attracts Lars away from her.
Chelsea Nights
A young artist in a Chelsea studio laments the absence of his beloved Fifi.
Prince of Arcadia
A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.
Song of Soho
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
Knowing Men
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
The American Prisoner
Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....
Filmography
as Chris Anderson
as King Rudolf XIV / Carlo Rocco
as Eric Lander
as Prince Peter
as Carl
as George Vere
as Lieutenant Cecil Stark
as Lars Holm
as The Artist
as Pete Quilliam
as 'One Round' Jack Sander