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Paul Leyssac is a Actor born on 21 june 1881

Paul Leyssac

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Birth 21 june 1881
Death 20 august 1946 (at 65 years)

Paul Leyssac (born Paul Andri Jurgensen Leyssac, June 21, 1881 – August 20, 1946) was a Danish writer, and stage and film actor. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1937 British film Victoria the Great. He also was a translator of the works of Hans Christian Andersen.

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Filmography of Paul Leyssac (7 films)

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Assignment in Brittany
Assignment in Brittany (1943)
, 1h36
Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Margaret Wycherly, Signe Hasso, Richard Whorf, George Coulouris
Roles Village Priest
Rating65% 3.28843.28843.28843.28843.2884
Free French Captain Pierre Matard (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is assigned the task of locating a concealed U-boat pen in occupied France due to his striking resemblance to Bertrand Corlay, a suspected Nazi collaborator being held prisoner by the British.
Two-Faced Woman
Two-Faced Woman (1942)
, 1h30
Directed by George Cukor, Andrew Marton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Ruth Gordon, Robert Sterling
Roles Ski Lodge Clerk (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.10043.10043.10043.10043.1004
A fashion magazine editor (Douglas) marries a ski instructor (Garbo) on impulse, but she soon learns he expects her to be a dutiful wife, and not the independent woman he seemed to marry her for. They separate and he returns to New York City, where he takes up again with a playwright, (Bennett), with whom he was involved prior to marriage.
So Ends Our Night
So Ends Our Night (1941)
, 1h57
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Glenn Ford, Frances Dee, Anna Sten, Erich von Stroheim
Roles Swiss Judge (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.389653.389653.389653.389653.38965
The story begins in 1937 Austria, before the German occupation which would arrive the following year. Josef Steiner (Fredric March) is a middle-aged German veteran who has been an ideological opponent to the Nazi regime from its inception and already escaped from two years in a concentration camp. He's in hiding in a dodgy Austrian boarding house with young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford in an early and outstanding performance), a bewildered 19-year-old German from a prosperous family that was found to have Jewish forebears when the Nazis came to power and now "half-Aryan," are abruptly deprived of their German citizenship and passports, rendered stateless and ordered to leave the country.
Paris Calling
Paris Calling (1941)
, 1h35
Directed by Edwin L. Marin, Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Charles Arnt, Lee J. Cobb
Roles Chief of Underground
Rating60% 3.044063.044063.044063.044063.04406
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive.
Arise, My Love
Arise, My Love (1940)
, 1h50
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about journalists, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel, Frank Puglia, Dick Purcell
Roles Bresson
Rating67% 3.391073.391073.391073.391073.39107
American pilot Tom Martin (Ray Milland) is a soldier of fortune who went to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War. During the summer of 1939, he is languishing in a prison cell while awaiting execution. Unexpectedly granted a pardon on the morning that he is to face a firing squad, Tom's release has been managed by reporter Augusta "Gusto" Nash (Claudette Colbert), who posed as his wife. When the prison governor learns of the deception, the pair has to run for their lives.