Personal Info
Birth date
1867-09-06 (157 Years)
Day of death
1952-05-15
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Mannheim, Germany
Also known as
Albert Basserman
Albert Bassermann
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.
Filmography
The Red Shoes
7.967
Overview:
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.Foreign Correspondent
7
Overview:
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.Madame Curie
7.134
Overview:
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.A Woman's Face
6.86
Overview:
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.Invisible Agent
5.8
Overview:
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.The Moon and Sixpence
6.344
Overview:
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.Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.173
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A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
6.364
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A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.Desperate Journey
5.865
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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.Reunion in France
6.4
Overview:
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.The Shanghai Gesture
6.3
Overview:
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.Escape
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.Since You Went Away
6.5
Overview:
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.Escape Me Never
4.7
Overview:
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.A Certain Mr. Gran
NYR
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An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a robbery. As the plans have presumably fallen into the hands of spies, secret service captain Bergall is given the task of recovering the papers. Bergall initially adopts a false name and appears as Mr. Gran, whom nobody knows. Under this name, he rents a room in the Hotel Danieli in Venice and makes the acquaintance of the shipowner's daughter Viola Dolleen. With her help, he is able to eliminate Captain Gordon, who is also interested in the plans. When Gran learns that the plans are now in the possession of the art dealer Tschernikoff, who wants to sell them to Gordon, he immediately travels to Rome, visits the art dealer Titian and pretends to be Gordon. In the art dealer's remote villa, events come thick and fast...Knute Rockne All American
6.1
Overview:
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.Good Luck, Mr. Yates
5.8
Overview:
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
6.4
Overview:
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.A Dispatch from Reuters
5.792
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German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.Rhapsody in Blue
6.4
Overview:
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.Helen of Troy
5.929
Overview:
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.The Loves of Pharaoh
6.6
Overview:
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.Fly By Night
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.Alraune
5.214
Overview:
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.New Wine
NYR
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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.The Man in the Iron Mask
7
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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.1914
5
Overview:
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.Napoleon at St. Helena
4.833
Overview:
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.Inquest
NYR
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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.Fräulein Else
6.3
Overview:
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.Acting
1948The Red Shoes as Sergei Ratov
1947Escape Me Never as Professor Heinrich
1947The Private Affairs of Bel Ami as Jacques Rival
1946The Searching Wind as Count von Stammer
1945Strange Holiday as School Principal
1945Rhapsody in Blue as Prof. Franck
1944Since You Went Away as Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden
1943Madame Curie as Professor Jean Perot
1943Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Dr. Carl Hesser
1942Reunion in France as Hugo Schroeder
1942Once Upon a Honeymoon as General Borelski
1942The Moon and Sixpence as Dr. Coutras
1942Desperate Journey as Dr. Ludwig Mather
1942Invisible Agent as Arnold Schmidt
1942Fly By Night as Dr. Storm
1941The Shanghai Gesture as Van Elst
1941New Wine as Ludwig van Beethoven
1941A Woman's Face as Consul Magnus Barring
1941I Was a Criminal as Wilhelm Voight, a Shoemaker
1940Escape as Dr. Arthur Henning
1940A Dispatch from Reuters as Franz Geller
1940Knute Rockne All American as Father Julius Nieuwland
1940Foreign Correspondent as Van Meer
1940Moon Over Burma as Basil Renner
1940Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet as Dr. Robert Koch
1938Heroes of the Marne as Col. von Gelow
1935Last Love as Thomas Bruck
1933A Certain Mr. Gran as Tschernikoff
1931Cadets as General von Seddin
1931Inquest as Dr. Konrad Bienert, Landgerichtsrat
19311914 as Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
1930Dreyfus as Oberst Picquart
1930Alraune as Professor ten Brinken
1929Napoleon at St. Helena as Hudson Lowe - Gouverneur von St. Helena
1929Fräulein Else as Dr. Alfred Thalhof
1926Wenn das Herz der Jugend spricht as Professor Imhof
1924Helen of Troy as Aisakos
1923Alt Heidelberg as Unknown
1923Earth Spirit as Dr. Schön
1923The Man in the Iron Mask as Unknown
1922Lucrezia Borgia as Papst Alexander VI Rodrigo Borgia
1922The Loves of Pharaoh as Sothis
1922Frauenopfer as Graf
1921Die kleine Dagmar as Unknown
1920Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy as Unknown
1920Die Stimme as Unknown
1920Die Duplizität der Ereignisse as Unknown
1920Dolls of Death as Graf Robert
1919Der letzte Zeuge as Unknown
1918Lorenzo Burghardt as Unknown
1918Dr. Schotte as Dr. Schotte
1918Die Brüder von Zaarden as Unknown
1918Vater und Sohn as Unknown
1917Der eiserne Wille as Unknown
1917Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben as Unknown
1917Herr und Diener as Unknown
1914Urteil des Arztes as Unknown
1913Der letzte Tag as Prof. Osterode
1913Der Andere as Dr. Hallers