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Michael Visaroff is a Actor Russe born on 18 december 1889 at Moscow (Russie)

Michael Visaroff

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Birth name Майкл Висарофф
Nationality Russie
Birth 18 december 1889 at Moscow (Russie)
Death 27 february 1951 (at 61 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Michael Visaroff (December 18, 1892 – February 27, 1951) was a Russian American film actor. He appeared in 113 films between 1925 and 1952. He was best known for his uncredited appearance in an early scene of Dracula (1931) as the nervous Hungarian innkeeper who, as Renfield is traveling to meet the Count, warns him about the actual existence of vampires.

He was born in Moscow and died in Hollywood, California, from pneumonia.

Biography

Après ses études d'art dramatique et des débuts au théâtre dans sa ville natale, Michael Visaroff émigre en 1922 aux États-Unis. Il y débute au cinéma en 1925, participant à une quinzaine de films muets américains, dont Two Arabian Knights de Lewis Milestone (1927, avec William Boyd et Mary Astor).

Second rôle de caractère (souvent dans des petits rôles non crédités), il poursuit sa carrière à l'écran après le passage au parlant, contribuant encore à une centaine de films (dont quelques westerns). Le dernier est Le Paradis des mauvais garçons de Josef von Sternberg (avec Robert Mitchum et Jane Russell), sorti en 1952, plus d'un an après sa mort (d'une pneumonie).

Parmi ses autres films notables, mentionnons Disraeli d'Alfred E. Green (1929, avec George Arliss et Joan Bennett), Le Fils de Monte-Cristo de Rowland V. Lee (1940, avec Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett et George Sanders) et Yolanda et le Voleur de Vincente Minnelli (1945, avec Fred Astaire et Lucille Bremer).

Michael Visaroff joue également à Broadway (New York) en 1935 et 1936, dans deux pièces.

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Filmography of Michael Visaroff (88 films)

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Macao
Macao (1952)
, 1h21
Directed by Robert Stevenson, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Gomez, Brad Dexter
Roles Portier russe
Rating65% 3.297093.297093.297093.297093.29709
Three strangers arrive at the port of Macao on the same ship: Nick Cochran (Robert Mitchum), a cynical-but-honest ex-serviceman, Julie Benson (Jane Russell), an equally cynical, sultry night club singer, and Lawrence Trumble (William Bendix), a traveling salesman who deals in both silk stockings and contraband.
Intrigue
Intrigue (1947)
, 1h30
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors George Raft, June Havoc, Helena Carter, Tom Tully, Marvin Miller, Marvin Miller
Roles Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.906362.906362.906362.906362.90636
Court-martialed pilot Brad Dunham now flies smuggled goods into post-war China. He insists to contact Ramon Perez that he be paid more money, but the boss of this black-market operation resists, so Brad steals the cargo back.
Desperate
Desperate (1947)
, 1h13
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Trucker films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Douglas Fowley, William Challee, Jason Robards Sr.
Roles Villager (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3960953.3960953.3960953.3960953.396095
Steve Randall (Brodie) is an independent trucker who is hired by an old friend to haul some freight. Only when Steve arrives at the warehouse, does he discover he has been hired to haul away stolen goods. Steve wants no part of the plot and resists, but a cop is killed as they're committing the burglary, and all except one manage to get away.
Don Ricardo Returns, 1h3
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Anthony Warde, Claire Du Brey, Michael Visaroff, Soledad Jiménez
Roles Captain Martinez
Rating44% 2.2314352.2314352.2314352.2314352.231435
A Song to Remember, 1h53
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Paul Muni, Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Nina Foch, Ivan Triesault, George Coulouris
Roles Russian Governor (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.29483.29483.29483.29483.2948
Vidor romanticizes Chopin's patriotism in the film, which was produced during World War II. Chopin, played by Cornel Wilde, is first presented to the audience as a child prodigy playing a piece by Mozart, but suddenly starts to bang on the piano keys when he notices out the window that Polish people are being taken prisoners by the Russian authorities.
Dakota
Dakota (1945)
, 1h22
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Mike Mazurki, Ona Munson
Roles Un russe
Rating58% 2.9465052.9465052.9465052.9465052.946505
En 1871, sur le territoire du Dakota, le joueur professionnel John Devlin rencontre 'Sandy', fille de Marko Poli, magnat du chemin de fer. Les deux jeunes gens se marient et s'enfuient, poursuivis par le père. Lors de leur périple, ils remontent une rivière vers le nord à bord du River Bird, commandé par le capitaine Bounce, et sont confrontés au gang de Jim Bender et de son second 'Bigtree' Collins...
A Royal Scandal, 1h35
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer
Roles Russian General (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.346673.346673.346673.346673.34667
Une comtesse autrichienne souhaite que sa fille épouse un homme de son rang. Mais la princesse amoureuse d'un ingénieur des mines américain John Gavin, ne l'entend pas de cette oreille. Sur la vie amoureuse de l'impératrice de Russie (tsarine) Catherine la Grande. Scandale à la cour est le remake de "Paradis défendu" (Forbidden Paradise) film muet de 1924 d'après une pièce "Die Zarin" de Lajos Biró et Melchior Lengyel.
Yolanda and the Thief, 1h48
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mary Nash, Leon Ames
Roles Major Domo
Rating59% 2.950662.950662.950662.950662.95066
Yolanda Aquaviva, unique héritière d'une grosse fortune, quitte le pensionnat de religieuses où elle a été éduquée et retrouve la maison familiale, tenue par sa tante et tutrice, Amarilla Aquaviva. Un soir, dans son jardin, la jeune femme prie son "ange gardien" de la guider vers l'avenir. Le lendemain, l'ange se présente à elle sous le nom de M. Brown. En réalité, il s'agit d'un escroc et coureur de dot, Johnny Parkson Riggs, qui espère profiter de la fortune Aquaviva, avec l'aide de son complice, Victor Budlow Trout. Mais l'amour s'en mêle…
Madame Curie, 2h4
Directed by Harry Beaumont, Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann, C. Aubrey Smith, May Whitty
Roles Proud Papa (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.596843.596843.596843.596843.59684
Marie Sklodowska (Greer Garson) is a poor, idealistic student living in Paris and studying at the Sorbonne. She neglects her health and one day faints during class. Her tutor, Prof. Perot (Albert Bassermann) is sympathetic and, finding that she has no friends or family in Paris, invites her to a soirée his wife is throwing for a "few friends" (primarily professors and their wives). Among the many guests is physicist Pierre Curie (Walter Pidgeon), an extremely shy and absentminded man completely devoted to his work. He allows Marie to share his lab and finds that she is a gifted scientist. Appalled that she plans on returning to Poland to teach after graduation, rather than devoting her life to further study, he takes her to visit his family in their country home. Marie and Pierre both tend to concentrate on science to the extent that they don't realize until the last minute they have fallen in love. Even when Pierre asks Marie to be his wife, he does so in terms of reason, logic and chemistry.
The Mask of Dimitrios, 1h35
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Politic
Themes Films about writers, Spy films
Actors Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Florence Bates
Roles Bulgarian Policeman (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5960753.5960753.5960753.5960753.596075
Dutch mystery writer Cornelius Leyden (Peter Lorre) is visiting Istanbul. A fan of his, Colonel Haki (Kurt Katch) of the Turkish police (who appears in several Ambler books), believes he would be interested in the history of one Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott), whose body was just washed up on the beach. Leyden is so fascinated by what Haki tells of the dead arch-criminal that he becomes determined to learn more.
Experiment Perilous, 1h31
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, Carl Esmond, Olive Blakeney
Roles Ballet Master (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1452553.1452553.1452553.1452553.145255
The story takes place in 1903. During a train trip, psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney). She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and becomes suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick (Paul Lukas) keeps Allida (Hedy Lamarr), whom he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their London town house [a New York brownstone in the film], cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly Bailey takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.
Mission to Moscow, 2h4
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker
Roles Barkov (uncredited)
Rating54% 2.704272.704272.704272.704272.70427
The film chronicles ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It is made in faux-documentary style, beginning with Davies meeting with president Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss his new appointment as United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. It continues to show the Davies' family's trip by boat to Moscow, with stops in Europe.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 2h50
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Katína Paxinoú, Arturo de Córdova
Roles Staff Officer
Rating67% 3.3971853.3971853.3971853.3971853.397185
During the Spanish Civil War, an American (Gary Cooper), who is allied with the republicans, gets involved in a mission to blow up an important bridge.