Albert Bassermann

Albert Bassermann

1867-09-06 Mannheim, Germany 59 Credits

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.

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The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

1948

as Sergei Ratov

8.0
Acting

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...

Escape Me Never

Escape Me Never

1947

as Professor Heinrich

4.7
Acting

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

1947

as Jacques Rival

6.4
Acting

A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

The Searching Wind

The Searching Wind

1946

as Count von Stammer

Acting

Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in ...

Strange Holiday

Strange Holiday

1945

as School Principal

6.4
Acting

An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue

1945

as Prof. Franck

6.4
Acting

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away

1944

as Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden

6.5
Acting

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 ...

Madame Curie

Madame Curie

1943

as Professor Jean Perot

7.1
Acting

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern...

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

1943

as Dr. Carl Hesser

5.8
Acting

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

Reunion in France

Reunion in France

1942

as Hugo Schroeder

6.4
Acting

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 hi...

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Once Upon a Honeymoon

1942

as General Borelski

6.2
Acting

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

1942

as Dr. Coutras

6.3
Acting

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, hi...

Desperate Journey

Desperate Journey

1942

as Dr. Ludwig Mather

5.9
Acting

During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German...

Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent

1942

as Arnold Schmidt

5.8
Acting

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

Fly By Night

Fly By Night

1942

as Dr. Storm

6.4
Acting

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 escap...

The Shanghai Gesture

The Shanghai Gesture

1941

as Van Elst

6.3
Acting

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

New Wine

New Wine

1941

as Ludwig van Beethoven

Acting

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.

A Woman's Face

A Woman's Face

1941

as Consul Magnus Barring

6.9
Acting

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

I Was a Criminal

I Was a Criminal

1941

as Wilhelm Voight, a Shoemaker

Acting

Aka Passport to Heaven. 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...

Escape

Escape

1940

as Dr. Arthur Henning

7.4
Acting

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 h...

A Dispatch from Reuters

A Dispatch from Reuters

1940

as Franz Geller

5.8
Acting

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Knute Rockne All American

Knute Rockne All American

1940

as Father Julius Nieuwland

6.1
Acting

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

1940

as Van Meer

7.0
Acting

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 a...

Moon Over Burma

Moon Over Burma

1940

as Basil Renner

5.0
Acting

The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940

as Dr. Robert Koch

6.4
Acting

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Heroes of the Marne

Heroes of the Marne

1938

as Col. von Gelow

6.0
Acting

Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between h...

Last Love

Last Love

1935

as Thomas Bruck

5.0
Acting

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.

A Certain Mr. Gran

A Certain Mr. Gran

1933

as Tschernikoff

Acting

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 f...

Cadets

1931

as General von Seddin

Acting

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 ca...

Inquest

Inquest

1931

as Dr. Konrad Bienert, Landgerichtsrat

Acting

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...

1914

1914

1931

as Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

5.0
Acting

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.

Dreyfus

Dreyfus

1930

as Oberst Picquart

5.6
Acting

In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is dr...

Alraune

Alraune

1930

as Professor ten Brinken

5.2
Acting

A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murd...

Napoleon at St. Helena

1929

as Hudson Lowe - Gouverneur von St. Helena

4.8
Acting

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss,...

Fräulein Else

Fräulein Else

1929

as Dr. Alfred Thalhof

6.3
Acting

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 j...

Wenn das Herz der Jugend spricht

Wenn das Herz der Jugend spricht

1926

as Professor Imhof

Acting
Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

1924

as Aisakos

5.9
Acting

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...

Alt Heidelberg

Alt Heidelberg

1923

Acting

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...

Earth Spirit

Earth Spirit

1923

as Dr. Schön

5.5
Acting

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 ...

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

1923

7.0
Acting

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...

Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia

1922

as Papst Alexander VI Rodrigo Borgia

4.4
Acting

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...

The Loves of Pharaoh

The Loves of Pharaoh

1922

as Sothis

6.6
Acting

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

Frauenopfer

1922

as Graf

Acting

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 painte...

Die kleine Dagmar

1921

Acting

Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy

1920

Acting

Die Stimme

1920

Acting

Die Duplizität der Ereignisse

1920

Acting

Dolls of Death

1920

as Graf Robert

Acting

Crime film based on Nikolaus Lenau's poem "Die Marionetten."

Der letzte Zeuge

Der letzte Zeuge

1919

Acting

Lorenzo Burghardt

1918

Acting
Dr. Schotte

Dr. Schotte

1918

as Dr. Schotte

Acting

A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.

Die Brüder von Zaarden

Die Brüder von Zaarden

1918

Acting
Vater und Sohn

Vater und Sohn

1918

Acting
Der eiserne Wille

Der eiserne Wille

1917

Acting
Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben

Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben

1917

Acting
Herr und Diener

Herr und Diener

1917

Acting
Urteil des Arztes

Urteil des Arztes

1914

Acting
Der letzte Tag

Der letzte Tag

1913

as Prof. Osterode

Acting
Der Andere

Der Andere

1913

as Dr. Hallers

4.6
Acting

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 ...