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Virginia Brissac

Actress / Stage Actress / Film Actress | * 06/11/1883 († 96, 07/26/1979) | San Jose, California (United States of America (USA))
Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was a popular American stage actress who headlined theatre companies from Vancouver to San Diego during the heyday of West Coast Stock in the early 1900s. An ingénue and leading lady known for her natural style and charm on stage, Brissac played with equal success in both comedies and dramas and went on to have a long second career as a character actress in film and television. In addition to playing mothers, grandmothers, and confidants to film stars such as Bette Davis (in The Little Foxes and Dark Victory), Tyrone Power (in Captain from Castile), and John Wayne (in Operation Pacific), Brissac was cast as farm women and rancher's wives (Jesse James, The Daltons Ride Again, State Fair), aristocrats and society women (The Phantom of the Rue Morgue, Old Los Angeles, Executive Suite), and various nurses, seamstresses, and lan... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, ...

Dark Victory

FSK: 6+ years

1939 | 3.5/5 | 1h 44min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders. ...

The Scarlet Clue

Certification unknown

1945 | 3.1/5 | 1h 5min
Mystery, Thriller
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After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms ...

Rebel Without a Cause

FSK: 16+ years

1955 | 3.8/5 | 1h 51min
Drama
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When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him. ...

Executive Suite

Certification unknown

1954 | 3.6/5 | 1h 44min
Drama
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Movies with Virginia Brissac as Actress(109)

as Jim's Grandmother1955 Rebel Without a Cause
as Mrs. Poole1954 About Mrs. Leslie
as Edith Alderson1954 Executive Suite
as Mrs. Spooner1953 Meet Me at the Fair
as Maria1953 The Bandits of Corsica
as Mrs. Dawson1952 Woman of the North Country
as Sister Anna1951 Operation Pacific
as Maida McIntyre1951 Two of a Kind
as Mrs. Dennis1950 Edge of Doom
as Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)1950 No Man of Her Own
as Mother of Harriet Craig (Uncredited)1950 Harriet Craig
as Mrs. Andrews (uncredited)1949 Tension
as Kate's Mother1949 The Last Bandit
as Miss Seiffert1948 The Snake Pit
as Mrs. Thomas1948 The Mating of Millie
as Miss Hawley1948 Summer Holiday
as Mrs. Jones1948 The Untamed Breed
as Mrs. Russell1948 An Act of Murder
as Miss Drake (uncredited)1948 Three Daring Daughters
as Señora Del Rey1948 Old Los Angeles
as Woman at the Wedding (uncredited)1947 Pursued
as Carlotta Couvais1947 Monsieur Verdoux
as Martha, the Housekeeper1946 The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
as Mrs. Chapman1946 Hot Cargo
as Cornelia Waldron1946 The Mysterious Mr. M
as Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)1946 Sister Kenny
as Martha--Governor's Wife1945 Bewitched
as Mrs. Marsh1945 The Scarlet Clue
as Cary Whipple1945 Three's a Crowd
as Miss Tilford (uncredited)1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Flo Clark1945 Captain Eddie
as Lavinia Thorndyke1945 G.I. Honeymoon
as Mrs. Leslie1945 Why Girls Leave Home
as Mrs. Courtland West1944 Marriage Is a Private Affair
as Cornelia Blake1944 Sing, Neighbor, Sing
as Miss Harvey, Juror1944 Faces in the Fog
as Camp Matron (uncredited)1944 Song of the Open Road
as Dr. Helen Chase1944 Phantom Lady
as Townswoman (uncredited)1944 Together Again
as Mrs. Tiggett1944 This Is the Life
as Patricia Cornwall1943 The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
as Dress Saleswoman (Uncredited)1943 The Hard Way
as Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)1943 Shadow of a Doubt
as Aunt Bess1943 Moonlight in Vermont
as Mrs. Stoner1942 Lady Gangster
as Mrs. Ella Evans1942 The Mummy's Tomb
as Mrs. Dowling - Landlady (uncredited)1942 Take a Letter, Darling
as Mrs. Bell1942 Mug Town
as Mrs. Booth1942 The Big Shot
as Mrs. Brown1942 Get Hep to Love
as Mrs. Clark1942 Tough as They Come
as Clarence's Wife1942 Lucky Jordan
as Woman (uncredited)1941 They Died with Their Boots On
as Mary1941 The Nurse's Secret
as Mrs. Curzon1941 Washington Melodrama
as Sadie1941 The Great Lie
as Mrs. Hathaway1941 Bad Men of Missouri
as Mrs. Hill1941 Remember the Day
as Nora1941 Appointment for Love
as Mrs. Jellison (uncredited)1941 One Foot in Heaven
as Mrs. Hewitt1941 The Little Foxes
as Lynne Evans1941 Dressed to Kill
as Mrs. Brevoort1940 Little Old New York
as Mrs. Green1940 Little Orvie
as Mrs. Emory1940 Remember the Night
as Wicked Stepmother1940 Cinderella's Feller
as Lucy Bond1940 Always a Bride
as Nun (uncredited)1940 All This, and Heaven Too
as Mrs. Margaret Kingsley1940 Black Friday
as Mother Zombie1940 The Ghost Breakers
as Miss Humbert (uncredited)1940 Lady with Red Hair
as Miss Collins (uncredited)1940 Hired Wife
as Miss Holden1940 It's a Date
as Mrs. May Holden1940 Strike Up the Band
as Landlady1940 Chad Hanna
as Mrs. Blair (uncredited)1940 If I Had My Way
as Landlady1940 The House Across the Bay
as Elsie Clark1940 Alias the Deacon
as Mr. Norton's Mother (uncredited)1939 A Child Is Born
as Mrs. Kimball1939 The Forgotten Woman
as Martha1939 Dark Victory
as Nurse (uncredited)1939 I Stole a Million
as Eleanor's Nurse (uncredited)1939 Invitation to Happiness
as Peach Pie Baker (uncredited)1939 Young Mr. Lincoln
as Commencement Speaker1939 First Love
as Seamstress1939 The Cisco Kid and the Lady
as Boy's Mother1939 Jesse James
as Mrs. Martin1939 Parents on Trial
as Sophie Claggett1939 Destry Rides Again
as Nurse1939 Wings of the Navy
as Willie's Mother (uncredited)1939 They Shall Have Music
as Friend of Mrs. McNutt1938 Gateway
as Boardinghouse Landlady (uncredited)1938 Young Dr. Kildare
as Mrs. Herbert Ellis1938 Delinquent Parents
as Mrs. Grant1937 The Bad Man of Brimstone
as Sarah Talcott1937 White Bondage
as Seamstress (uncredited)1937 Artists & Models
as Helen Hammond (poses as "Aunt Jenny")1937 The Adventurous Blonde
as Mrs. Dale1937 Idol of the Crowds
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)1937 Stolen Holiday
as Mrs. Hughes1937 Mountain Justice
as Farmer's Wife (uncredited)1937 The Man in the Barn
as Mrs. McLane1936 Three Godfathers
as Adela Thatcher1936 Murder by an Aristocrat
as Mrs. Trent1936 The Big Noise
as Aunt Julia1936 Down the Stretch
as Mrs. Blodgett1936 Love Letters of a Star
as Marion Sims1936 Two Against the World
as Mrs. Van Twerp1935 Honeymoon Limited

TV Shows/Series with Virginia Brissac as Actress(1)

as Mrs. Hammond1951 I Love Lucy

Full Name: Virginia Brissac
Born: Monday, 06/11 1883 (June) in San Jose, California (United States of America (USA))
Died: Thursday, 07/26 1979 (July) in Santa Fe (aged: 96)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Virginia Brissac frequently works together with these people:
Louis Nicoletti (14x, Cast)
Emmett Vogan (13x, Actor)
Bess Flowers (12x, Actress)
Joseph Crehan (11x, Actor)
Hal B. Wallis (11x, Crew)
Jack Otterson (10x, Crew)
Milton Kibbee (10x, Actor)
Perc Westmore (10x, Crew)
Vera West (10x, Crew)
Russell A. Gausman (10x, Crew)
Frank Mayo (10x, Actor)
Cedric Gibbons (9x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:59657, Added: 05/17/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024