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Virginia Brissac is a Actor American born on 10 june 1883 at San Jose (USA)
Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979), was an American West Coast stage actress who came out of retirement in her early 50s to begin what would turn out to be a twenty year career as a performer in cinema and television productions. She was known as an ingénue in her early theatrical years, in her latter career Brissac’s stern features often led her to play schoolteachers and other authority figures rôles. She is perhaps best remembered today as Jim Stark’s (James Dean) grandmother in the 1955 film, Rebel Without a Cause.
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Virginia Brissac
Birth name Virginia Alice Brisac
Nationality USA
Birth 10 june 1883 at San Jose (USA)
Death 26 july 1979 (at 96 years) at Santa Fe (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 10 june 1883 at San Jose (USA)
Death 26 july 1979 (at 96 years) at Santa Fe (USA)
Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979), was an American West Coast stage actress who came out of retirement in her early 50s to begin what would turn out to be a twenty year career as a performer in cinema and television productions. She was known as an ingénue in her early theatrical years, in her latter career Brissac’s stern features often led her to play schoolteachers and other authority figures rôles. She is perhaps best remembered today as Jim Stark’s (James Dean) grandmother in the 1955 film, Rebel Without a Cause.
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Filmography of Virginia Brissac (103 films)
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
, 1h51Directed by Nicholas Ray, Don Alvarado, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Transport films, Films about automobiles
Actors James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Ann Doran, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson
Roles Jim's Grandmother
Rating75%
Behind the opening credits, the film opens on a suburban Los Angeles street with teenager Jim Stark (Dean) drunkenly lying down on a sidewalk. He is arrested and taken to the juvenile division of the police station for "plain drunkenness". At the station he meets John "Plato" Crawford (Mineo), who was brought in for shooting a litter of puppies with his mother's gun, and Judy (Wood), who was brought in for curfew violation (she was wearing a bright red dress with matching lipstick and was mistaken for being a streetwalker). The three each separately reveal their innermost frustrations to officers; all three of them suffer from problems at home:
Executive Suite (1954)
, 1h44Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Louis Calhern
Roles Edith Alderson
Rating73%
While in New York City to meet with investment bankers, 56-year-old Avery Bullard, president and driving force of the Tredway Corporation, a major furniture manufacturing company in the town of Millburgh, Pennsylvania, drops dead in the street. As he collapses in the street he drops his wallet which is picked up by a bystander, emptied of its cash, and shoved into a wastebasket. Without the wallet, there's no way to immediately identify the body as Bullard.
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Shirley Booth, Robert Ryan, Marjie Millar, Alex Nicol, Sammy White, James Bell
Roles Mrs. Poole
Rating70%
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)
, 1h20Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Brett Halsey, Alice Kelley, Ross Elliott
Roles Mrs. Maddocks
Rating67%
Ma and Pa head out again to their "old place" after they read their son's contest letter stating that two judges of National Magazine will evaluate the farm for the scholarship contest.
All I Desire (1953)
, 1h19Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Lori Nelson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Richard Long
Rating69%
Naomi Murdoch abandons her husband and children in Wisconsin, setting off to become an actress and also to flee from an aggressive former suitor, Dutch Heineman. She decides to return 10 years later at the invitation of daughter Lily, who is appearing in a high school play and about to graduate.
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
, 1h32Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas, Victor McLaglen, John Russell, Claude Jarman Jr.
Roles Bintang
Rating57%
In 1883, the Boston, Massachusetts, company that owns the full-rigged sailing ship Gerrymander gives the ship's captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit for the company in the Gerrymander 's operations in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both pirates and a trade exclusion policy that prevents him from carrying goods between ports in the islands, Boll looks for a way for the Gerrymander to make money. In Soerabaja on Java, Boll encounters an Indonesian whose life he once saved. The Indonesian tells Boll that native divers salvaged a fortune in diamonds from the sunken ship Pieterzoon, contrary to legend which says the diamonds were lost. The Indonesian directs Boll to a Chinese junk captain who has cargo that will lead Boll to the diamonds.
The Bandits of Corsica (1953)
, 1h21Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Greene, Raymond Burr, Paula Raymond, Dona Drake, Raymond Greenleaf, Lee Van Cleef
Roles Maria
Rating55%
In the eighteenth century a pair of twin brothers overthrow a sadistic aristocrat. It is also known by the alternative title The Return of the Corsican Brothers
Meet Me at the Fair (1953)
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Dan Dailey, Diana Lynn, Scatman Crothers, Hugh O'Brian, Carole Mathews, Chet Allen
Roles Mrs. Spooner
Rating58%
Zerelda King is assigned to look into possible illegal and unethical activity at an orphanage, which may or may not involve her fiance.
Flame of Araby (1951)
, 1h17Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Swashbuckler, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Jeff Chandler, Maureen O'Hara, Maxwell Reed, Lon Chaney, Jr., Richard Egan, Dewey Martin
Roles Alhena
Rating55%
Bedouin chief Tamerlaine (Jeff Chandler) is engaged in the hunt for a legendary black stallion. Also chasing the prize steed is Tunisian Princess Tanya (Maureen O'Hara), who desires to capture the horse to race in competition against hated brothers Borka (Lon Chaney) and Hakim (Buddy Baer), so she will not be forced to marry one of them. After a prolonged and deadly rivalry, Tamerlaine decides to join forces with Tanya to trap the stallion - and in the process, the two fall in love.
Operation Pacific (1951)
, 1h51Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey, Paul Picerni
Roles Sister Anna
Rating65%
During World War II, an American submarine, the Thunderfish, under the command of Cmdr. John T. "Pop" Perry (Ward Bond), takes on a group of children and nuns to transport them to Pearl Harbor. including a newborn infant nicknamed "Butch". The sub sights a Japanese aircraft carrier and attacks, but its torpedoes fail to explode. Pursued by the carrier, the sub manages to escape.
Two of a Kind (1951)
, 1h15Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott, Terry Moore, Alexander Knox, Griff Barnett, Virginia Brissac
Roles Maida McIntyre
Rating64%
Mike Farrell (O'Brien) is induced by con artists Brandy Kirby (Scott) and attorney Vincent Mailer (Knox) to purloin a rich couple's ten million dollar estate by having Farrell pose as their long-lost son.
Harriet Craig (1950)
, 1h34Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Allyn Joslyn, Lucile Watson, K. T. Stevens, Raymond Greenleaf
Roles Mother of Harriet Craig (Uncredited)
Rating72%
Dominatrice Harriet Craig tient plus de considération pour sa maison et ses biens qu'elle ne le fait pour toute personne dans sa vie. Parmi ceux qu'elle traite comme des objets ménagers, on trouve son aimable mari Walter, à qui elle a menti à propos de son incapacité à avoir des enfants; sa cousine Claire, qu'elle traite comme une secrétaire; et ses serviteurs qu'elle traite comme des esclaves.
No Man of Her Own (1950)
, 1h38Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger, Jane Cowl, Henry O'Neill
Roles Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)
Rating73%
Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is eight months pregnant and unmarried. When she goes to her unfaithful boyfriend Morley for help, all he gives her is a train ticket back to where she came from.
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
, 1h25Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Children's films
Actors Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Betty Lynn, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Bates
Roles Mrs. Benson (uncredited)
Rating69%
The parents were time and motion study and efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. and psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth. The title comes from one of Gilbreth's favorite jokes which played out in the movie that when he and his family were out driving and stopped at a red light, a pedestrian would ask "Hey, Mister! How come you got so many kids?" Gilbreth would pretend to ponder the question carefully, and then, just as the light turned green, would say "Well, they come cheaper by the dozen, you know," and drive off.
Edge of Doom (1950)
, 1h39Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith, Paul Stewart, Mala Powers
Roles Mrs. Dennis
Rating63%
The story concerns a young mentally disturbed man, Martin Lynn (Farley Granger), who goes on a rampage after his sick mother dies. One of the man's biggest beefs is with the Catholic Church who, in addition to slighting him when his mother needed a priest, once refused to bury his father years earlier because he committed suicide. The man, blaming the environment he lives in, goes on a rampage taking revenge on his cheap boss, a mortician and a priest, Father Kirkman (Harold Vermilyea), who refuses to give his poor mother a big funeral. He begins his rampage by killing the hard-line Catholic priest, who slighted him, by beating him with a heavy crucifix. Later, another young priest, Father Roth (Dana Andrews), suspects the young man, now arrested for another crime, for the killing.