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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Red Shoes
1948
as Sergei Ratov
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
1947
as Professor Heinrich
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
1947
as Jacques Rival
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.

The Searching Wind
1946
as Count von Stammer
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
1945
as School Principal
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

Rhapsody in Blue
1945
as Prof. Franck
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Since You Went Away
1944
as Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden
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
1943
as Professor Jean Perot
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
1943
as Dr. Carl Hesser
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

Reunion in France
1942
as Hugo Schroeder
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
1942
as General Borelski
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

The Moon and Sixpence
1942
as Dr. Coutras
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
1942
as Dr. Ludwig Mather
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
1942
as Arnold Schmidt
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

Fly By Night
1942
as Dr. Storm
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
1941
as Van Elst
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

New Wine
1941
as Ludwig van Beethoven
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
1941
as Consul Magnus Barring
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
1941
as Wilhelm Voight, a Shoemaker
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
1940
as Dr. Arthur Henning
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
1940
as Franz Geller
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Knute Rockne All American
1940
as Father Julius Nieuwland
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Foreign Correspondent
1940
as Van Meer
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
1940
as Basil Renner
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
1940
as Dr. Robert Koch
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Heroes of the Marne
1938
as Col. von Gelow
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
1935
as Thomas Bruck
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
1933
as Tschernikoff
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
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
1931
as Dr. Konrad Bienert, Landgerichtsrat
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
1931
as Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
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
1930
as Oberst Picquart
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
1930
as Professor ten Brinken
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
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
1929
as Dr. Alfred Thalhof
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
1926
as Professor Imhof

Helen of Troy
1924
as Aisakos
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
1923
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
1923
as Dr. Schön
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
1923
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
1922
as Papst Alexander VI Rodrigo Borgia
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
1922
as Sothis
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Frauenopfer
1922
as Graf
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
Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy
1920
Die Stimme
1920
Die Duplizität der Ereignisse
1920
Dolls of Death
1920
as Graf Robert
Crime film based on Nikolaus Lenau's poem "Die Marionetten."

Der letzte Zeuge
1919
Lorenzo Burghardt
1918

Dr. Schotte
1918
as Dr. Schotte
A doctor's marriage to a single mother comes unravelled.

Die Brüder von Zaarden
1918

Vater und Sohn
1918

Der eiserne Wille
1917

Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben
1917

Herr und Diener
1917

Urteil des Arztes
1914

Der letzte Tag
1913
as Prof. Osterode

Der Andere
1913
as Dr. Hallers
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 ...