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Albert Bassermann
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Albert Bassermann (September 7, 1867 – May 15, 1952) was a stage and screen actor.
He was born in Mannheim, Germany. His illustrious career was acknowledged when he received the Iffland-Ring from the respected classics scholar Friedrich Haase. While Bassermann himself attempted to bestow the Iffland-Ring, he outlived each of the three grantees he chose. Not wanting to be mistaken a fourth time, Bassermann deferred making a choice; instead, a group of German actors made the decision.
In "Knute Rockne All American", he played a chemistry professor and mentor to teacher-cum-coach Rockne (Pat O'Brien). In real life, Basserman had himself studied chemistry, but abandoned that science early on to work with Viennese stage impresario Max Reinhardt.
A prominent and popular stage and film actor in his native Germany, Basserman emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 rather than endure the incoming Hitler regime.
He worked briefly in the French film industry before coming to America in 1939. Basserman spent the next eight years portraying sagacious elderly Europeans, usually scientists and music teachers. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his dual role in Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" (1940). He journeyed to England in 1948 for his final film assignment, "The Red Shoes".
Basserman's heartfelt, well-defined screen characterisations are all the more impressive when one realises that he could not speak English, and had to learn his lines phonetically.
Bassermann died from a heart attack in Zurich, Switzerland.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes/Alternate Film Title |
| 1948 | The Red Shoes | Sergei Ratov | |
| 1947 | Escape Me Never | Prof. Heinrich | |
| 1947 | The Private Affairs of Bel Ami | Jacques Rival | |
| 1946 | The Searching Wind | Count von Stammer | |
| 1945 | Strange Holiday | The Day After Tomorrow | |
| 1945 | Rhapsody in Blue | Prof. Franck | |
| 1945 | I Was a Criminal | Wilhelm Voight, a Shoemaker | |
| 1944 | Since You Went Away | Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden | |
| 1943 | Madame Curie | Prof. Jean Perot | |
| 1943 | Good Luck, Mr. Yates | Dr. Carl Hesser | |
| 1942 | Reunion in France | General Hugo Schroeder | |
| 1942 | Once Upon a Honeymoon | Gen. Borelski | |
| 1942 | The Moon and Sixpence | Dr. Coutras | |
| 1942 | Desperate Journey | Dr. Ludwig Mather | |
| 1942 | Invisible Agent | Arnold Schmidt | |
| 1942 | Fly-By-Night | Dr. Storm | |
| 1941 | The Shanghai Gesture | Van Elst | |
| 1941 | New Wine | Ludwig van Beethoven | |
| 1941 | A Woman's Face | Consul Magnus Barring | |
| 1940 | Moon Over Burma | Basil Renner | |
| 1940 | Escape | Dr. Arthur Henning | |
| 1940 | A Dispatch from Reuter's | Franz Geller | |
| 1940 | Knute Rockne All American | Father Julius Nieuwland | |
| 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | Van Meer | nominated: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1940 | Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Dr. Robert Koch | |
| 1939 | Le Héros de la Marne | Col. von Gelow | |
| 1935 | Letzte Liebe | Last Love | |
| 1933 | Ein Gewisser Herr Gran | Tschernikoff, Kunsthändler | |
| 1931 | Voruntersuchung | Dr. Konrad Bienert | |
| 1931 | 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand | Count Hollweg | |
| 1931 | Gefahren der Liebe | Dr.Ringius | |
| 1931 | Kadetten | Cadets | |
| 1931 | Zum goldenen Anker | Piquoiseau | The Golden Anchor |
| 1930 | Dreyfus | Col. Picquart | The Dreyfus Case |
| 1930 | Alraune | Privy Councillor ten Brinken | Daughter of Evil |
| 1920 | Napoleon auf St. Helena | Gouverneur Hudson Lowe | |
| 1929 | Fräulein Else | Dr. Alfred Thalhof | |
| 1926 | Wenn das Herz der Jugend spricht | ||
| 1926 | Die Mühle von Sanssouci | Adjudant Buddenbrock | The Mill of Sanssouci |
| 1925 | Briefe, die ihn nicht erreichten | ||
| 1925 | Der Herr Generaldirektor | ||
| 1924 | Helena | Aisakos | Helen of Troy |
| 1923 | Alt Heidelberg | The Student Prince | |
| 1923 | Christoph Columbus | Columbus | |
| 1923 | Erdgeist | Dr. Schoen | Earth Spirit |
| 1923 | Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske | The Man with the Iron Mask | |
| 1922 | Lucrezia Borgia | Papst Alexander VI | |
| 1922 | Frauenopfer | Graf | Women's Sacrifice |
| 1922 | Das Weib des Pharao | Sothis | Pharaoh's Wife |
| 1921 | Die Kleine Dagmar | ||
| 1921 | Frauenarzt, Der | Dr. Wolfgang Holländer | |
| 1921 | Brennendes Land | ||
| 1921 | Die Nächte des Cornelis Brouwer | Cornelis Brouwer | |
| 1920 | Puppen des Todes | ||
| 1920 | Masken | ||
| 1920 | Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy | ||
| 1920 | Die Stimme | ||
| 1920 | Die Duplizität der Ereignisse | ||
| 1919 | Eine Schwache Stunde | ||
| 1919 | Der Letzte Zeuge | The Last Witness | |
| 1919 | Das Werk seines Lebens | ||
| 1918 | Dr. Schotte | ||
| 1918 | Die Brüder von Zaarden | ||
| 1918 | Vater und Sohn | ||
| 1918 | Lorenzo Burghardt | ||
| 1917 | Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben | ||
| 1917 | Der Eiserne Wille | ||
| 1917 | Herr und Diener | ||
| 1914 | Urteil des Arztes | Dr. Erwin Hofmüller | |
| 1913 | Der König | Provinzschauspieler | |
| 1913 | Der Andere | Dr. Hallers | The Other |
| 1913 | Der Letzte Tag | Professor Osterode |
