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Ernest Cossart is a Actor British born on 24 september 1876 at Cheltenham (United-kingdom)

Ernest Cossart

Ernest Cossart
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Birth name Emil Gottfried von Holst
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 24 september 1876 at Cheltenham (United-kingdom)
Death 21 january 1951 (at 74 years) at New York City (USA)

Ernest Cossart (24 September 1876 – 21 January 1951) was an English actor. After a stage career in England he moved to the US, appearing on Broadway and all around the country. In the 1930s and 40s he appeared in films, specialising in playing butlers, valets and similar roles, but playing a range of other parts.

Biography

Sous le pseudonyme d'Ernest Cossart, il est très actif au théâtre et joue à Broadway (New York) entre 1908 et 1949, dans une comédie musicale (à sa première participation) et des pièces, notamment plusieurs de George Bernard Shaw.

Installé aux États-Unis, il apparaît au cinéma dans deux films muets en 1916, puis - après l'avènement du parlant - dans 41 films de 1935 à 1949 (le dernier, John loves Mary, aux côtés de Ronald Reagan).

Il est le frère du compositeur Gustav Holst (1874-1934).

Best films

Kitty Foyle (1940)
(Actor)

Usually with

Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(8 films)
Charles Lang
Charles Lang
(4 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ernest Cossart (35 films)

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Actor

John Loves Mary, 1h36
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Jack Carson, Ronald Reagan, Wayne Morris, Patricia Neal, Edward Arnold, Virginia Field
Roles Oscar Dugan
Rating61% 3.0979353.0979353.0979353.0979353.097935
John Lawrence (Ronald Reagan) is a returning GI. Mary McKinley (Patricia Neal in her film debut) is the girl he left behind. But their reunion will have to wait: John has returned with cockney war bride Lilly Herbish (Virginia Field) in tow. It seems that John married Lilly as a favor to get her into the U.S., intending to divorce her so that she can wed her true love, John's old pal Fred Taylor (Jack Carson).
Love from a Stranger, 1h21
Directed by Richard Whorf
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, John Howard, Isobel Elsom, Ernest Cossart
Roles Billings
Rating59% 2.953362.953362.953362.953362.95336
A woman fears her new husband will kill her.
Cluny Brown, 1h40
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Richard Haydn, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner
Roles Syrette
Rating73% 3.695243.695243.695243.695243.69524
A plumber's niece (Jennifer Jones) and a refugee (Charles Boyer) meet in England prior to World War II, and Una O'Connor, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, and Richard Haydn are around to take up what slack there is.
The Jolson Story, 2h8
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath, Scotty Beckett
Roles Father McGee
Rating71% 3.593453.593453.593453.593453.59345
American burlesque performer Steve Martin (William Demarest) offers to play a song for his audience, if they agree to sing along. Only one person does sing, a young boy named Asa Yoelson (Scotty Beckett). Steve is bowled over by the boy's voice, but Asa realizes he should be singing at the synagogue with his father, Cantor Yoelson (Ludwig Donath). Asa arrives late, and is later reprimanded by his strict father. Asa is reluctant to explain where he was, but Steve Martin visits the Yoelsons' home. He explains that he heard Asa sing at the burlesque house, and that he wants Asa to be part of his act. Papa Yoelson refuses to consider it.
Tonight and Every Night, 1h32
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Florence Bates, Marc Platt, Shelley Winters
Roles Sam Royce
Rating61% 3.0950053.0950053.0950053.0950053.095005
Near the end of the war, a reporter from Life magazine comes to the Music Box Theatre in London to write a story about the music hall that never missed putting on a performance during the Blitz. Stage manager Sam Royce recalls the halcyon days at the beginning of the war: Theatrical impresario May "Tolly" Tolliver is rehearsing her performers when dancer Tommy Lawson comes to audition. Although Tommy is a naturally gifted dancer, he improvises all his steps and consequently, Tolly refuses to hire him. Taking pity on Tommy, Americans Rosalind Bruce and Judy Kane, members of the troupe, teach him their routines, and he wins a part in the show.
Love Letters, 1h41
Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper, Anita Louise
Roles Bishop
Rating70% 3.5426653.5426653.5426653.5426653.542665
Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotten), an American soldier in Italy during World War II, has been writing letters for his friend, Roger Morland (Robert Sully), a man who admits he "never had any standards, manners or taste." Alan has never met Victoria Remington, but regards her as a "pin-up girl of the spirit," to whom he can express feelings he has never expressed in person. He realizes that Victoria has fallen in love with the letters and is concerned that she will be disappointed by the real Roger. However, Roger abruptly leaves for paratrooper training in England.
Kings Row
Kings Row (1942)
, 2h7
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Betty Field, Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Claude Rains
Roles Pa Monaghan
Rating74% 3.7466553.7466553.7466553.7466553.746655
The film commences in 1890 in the small town of Kings Row, focusing on five children. They are Parris Mitchell, who lives with his grandmother; Cassandra Tower, daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower; the wealthy orphan Drake McHugh; Louise Gordon, daughter of the sadistic town physician Dr. Henry Gordon, who has been known to perform operations without anesthetic; and the tomboy Randy Monaghan, whose father is a railroad worker.
Skylark
Skylark (1941)
, 1h32
Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel, Grant Mitchell
Roles Theodore
Rating61% 3.099083.099083.099083.099083.09908
Lydia Kenyon (Claudette Colbert) feels she is neglected and treated insensitively by her husband, Tony (Ray Milland), on their fifth wedding anniversary. She meets a lawyer, Jim Blake (Brian Aherne), and though she eventually divorces her husband, and nearly marries the young lawyer instead, in a moment of crisis she realises she loves her husband, and returns to him.
Charley's Aunt, 1h20
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Jack Benny, Kay Francis, Anne Baxter, James Ellison, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen
Roles Brassett
Rating68% 3.4403553.4403553.4403553.4403553.440355
Babbs, Charley et Jack, étudiants à Oxford, forment un trio que rien n'arrête. Charley et Jack rêvant d'obtenir Un rendez-vous avec deux jeunes filles, il leur faut un chaperon. Les 3 compères ne trouvent rien de mieux que de déguiser Babbs en femme et de prétendre qu'il est la tante de Charley....
One Foot in Heaven, 1h48
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart, Elisabeth Fraser, Laura Hope Crews
Roles John E. Morris
Rating66% 3.346223.346223.346223.346223.34622
In Stratford, Ontario in 1904, William Spence (Fredric March), a medical student on the verge of becoming a doctor, receives "The Call" while passing a Methodist church one Sunday. His bride-to-be, Hope Morris (Martha Scott), accepts his decision to enter the ministry with a whole heart despite the disappointment of her prominent and affluent parents. Will "dives right in," but with no vacancies in Canada, is posted as a circuit minister to a small town in rural Iowa, beginning a life for them of frequent moves around the district, dingy parsonages, and scraping a living from poor boxes and performing weddings. Hope yearns for a decent parsonage and a sense of permanence for their children, but uncomplainingly provides them a good life and a supportive home for Will. For his part, Will understands his own nature and laughs at his own foibles, bending where he can in good conscience. He often enters situations in anger or to instruct but leaves humbled and renewed in spirit. While Will sincerely lives by and teaches by example (which includes his family) the tenets of the Methodist Discipline, he also learns from his congregations to be flexible and change with the times.
Kitty Foyle, 1h48
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Doodles Weaver, Ernest Cossart
Roles Pop Foyle
Rating68% 3.447053.447053.447053.447053.44705
Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers), a saleswoman in a New York boutique working for Delphine Detaille (Odette Myrtil), faces a life-changing decision: marry doctor Mark Eisen (James Craig) or run away to South America with the man she has loved for many years, the already-married Wyn Strafford (Dennis Morgan). As she wrestles with her decision, the film flashes back to her youth in Philadelphia.
A Bill of Divorcement, 1h14
Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Bainter, Herbert Marshall, May Whitty, Patric Knowles
Roles Rev. Dr. Pumphrey
Rating58% 2.910722.910722.910722.910722.91072
Hilary Fairchild returns home after a long spell in a lunatic asylum.
Tom Brown's School Days, 1h26
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Josephine Hutchinson, Billy Halop, Polly Moran
Roles Squire Brown
Rating65% 3.295593.295593.295593.295593.29559
Lorsque le tuteur privé Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) devient directeur de Rugby, une école préparatoire pour garçons en Angleterre, il met en place une politique de punition stricte pour indiscipline et vol. Arnold trouve un allié en Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), un nouvel étudiant qui est victime de bizutage et d'abus de la part d'un groupe de garçons plus âgés et est poussé par ses amis à se taire à ce sujet. Marre, il mène ses camarades de classe dans une rébellion clandestine contre leurs bourreaux. Mais certaines règles tacites s'appliquent toujours à l'école et Brown perd son statut de héros lorsqu'il est accusé d'avoir enfreint le code du silence du rugby.
Lady of the Tropics, 1h32
Directed by Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Puglia, Ernest Cossart, Georges Renavent
Roles Father Antoine
Rating60% 3.0498153.0498153.0498153.0498153.049815
While visiting French Indochina on his yacht, a wealthy American falls in love with a beautiful local woman of mixed race background he meets in Saigon.