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Virginia Brissac
Born: 10th Jun 1883 San Jose, California, USA - Died 26th Jul 1979
Dept: Acting
Virginia Brissac (June 11, 1883 – July 26, 1979) was an American stage and film actress. With her stern features, she often played schoolteachers and other authority figures. Her film career began in 1913 with two short films and ended with Rebel Without a Cause (1955), playing grandmother to the character that James Dean portrayed.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 124
Film: 118 (95%)
Television: 6 (5%)
Remaining genres not in graph: War, History, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Documentary
Filmography
1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems ... view
Character:
Jim's Grandmother
Sep 1954 (first aired)
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and i ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1954
A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Poole
1954
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him. ... view
Character:
Edith Alderson
1954
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon ... view
Character:
Well-Dressed Woman in Coach (uncredited)
1954
The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a scholar ... view
Character:
Martha Maddocks
Oct 1953 (first aired)
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse is an American dramatic anthology series that aired on ABC from 1953 to 1955, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. The show was hosted by ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Mrs. Adams (1 ep.)
1953
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness. ... view
Character:
Maria
1953
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vesse ... view
Character:
Bintang
1953
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions ... view
Character:
Mrs. Spooner
1952
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are ... view
Character:
Mrs. Dawson
Jan 1952 (first aired)
Chevron Theatre is a 30-minute American anthology television series that aired from 1952 to 1954, featuring various dramatic stories with different gu ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Dec 1951 (first aired)
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dr ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Oct 1951 (first aired)
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana whe ... view
Character:
Mrs. Hammond (1 ep.)
1951
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son. ... view
Character:
Maida McIntyre
1951
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or n ... view
Character:
Sister Anna
1950
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family. ... view
Character:
Mother of Harriet Craig (Uncredited)
1950
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Dennis
1950
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and ... view
Character:
Mrs. Benson (uncredited)
1950
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash. ... view
Character:
Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)
1949
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, ... view
Character:
Mrs. Andrews (uncredited)
1949
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the lea ... view
Character:
Mrs. Burton (uncredited)
1949
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are bei ... view
Character:
Kate's Mother
1948
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Russell
1948
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an ... view
Character:
Miss Seiffert (uncredited)
1948
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday E ... view
Character:
Mrs. Jones
1948
Also known as California Outpost, Old Los Angeles stars Bill Elliot in one of his expanded-budget Republic "specials." The film is set during the earl ... view
Character:
Señora Del Rey
1948
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the gi ... view
Character:
Miss Hawley
1948
Self-sufficient in life and successful in business, prim and proper Millie McGonigle wants just one more thing, a child. When she asks to adopt orphan ... view
Character:
Mrs. Thomas
1948
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband. ... view
Character:
Miss Drake (uncredited)
1947
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to f ... view
Character:
Doña Maria De Vargas (uncredited)
1947
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full ... view
Character:
Sarah (uncredited)
1947
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his wo ... view
Character:
Carlotta Couvais
1947
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely ... view
Character:
Woman at the Wedding (uncredited)
1946
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validi ... view
Character:
Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
1946
Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrin ... view
Character:
Martha, the Housekeeper
1946
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is ... view
Character:
Cornelia Waldron
1946
Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a buddy killed in the war. There, they find the fam ... view
Character:
Mrs. Chapman
1945
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she ... view
Character:
Mrs. Leslie
1945
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality. ... view
Character:
Martha--Governor's Wife
1945
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the earl ... view
Character:
Flo Clark
1945
What would you do in this house of fear... if you knew that your husband killed your former flame? ... view
Character:
Cary Whipple
1945
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon. ... view
Character:
Ms. McKenzie (uncredited)
1945
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Marsh
1945
In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is c ... view
Character:
Lavinia Thorndyke
1945
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro ... view
Character:
Miss Tilford (uncredited)
1944
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on an ... view
Character:
Townswoman (uncredited)
1944
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the docto ... view
Character:
Miss Harvey, Juror
1944
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. With ... view
Character:
Mrs. Courtland West
1944
Country radio singers of the '40s appear in this tale about a lothario who poses as a professor to seduce coeds. ... view
Character:
Cornelia Blake
1944
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with ... view
Character:
Camp Matron (uncredited)
1944
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice tra ... view
Character:
Mrs. Tiggett
1944
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife. ... view
Character:
Dr. Helen Chase
1943
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school. ... view
Character:
Aunt Bess
1943
The Crime Doctor gets involved in the case of the poisoning of a wealthy industrialist. ... view
Character:
Patricia Cornwall
1943
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty. ... view
Character:
Dress Saleswoman (Uncredited)
1943
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior gr ... view
Character:
Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)
1942
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys m ... view
Character:
Mrs. Bell
1942
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie ... view
Character:
Clarence's Wife
1942
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian ... view
Character:
Mrs. Ella Evans
1942
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Brown
1942
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunt ... view
Character:
Mrs. Booth
1942
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and t ... view
Character:
Mrs. Clark
1942
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end ... view
Character:
Mrs. Dowling - Landlady (uncredited)
1942
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the mone ... view
Character:
Mrs. Stoner
1941
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Da ... view
Character:
Mrs. Hill
1941
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains th ... view
Character:
Woman (uncredited)
1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Jellison (uncredited)
1941
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progress ... view
Character:
Nora
1941
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Hewitt
1941
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby. ... view
Character:
Lynne Evans
1941
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buyin ... view
Character:
Mrs. Hathaway
1941
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam. ... view
Character:
Mary
1941
An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl' ... view
Character:
Mrs. Curzon
1941
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child. ... view
Character:
Sadie
1940
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway. ... view
Character:
Landlady
1940
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top. ... view
Character:
Miss Humbert (uncredited)
1940
A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one condition: he must run for mayor--and win. Comedy. ... view
Character:
Lucy Bond
1940
Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raisi ... view
Character:
Mrs. May Holden
1940
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once t ... view
Character:
Miss Collins (uncredited)
1940
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip ... view
Character:
Nun (uncredited)
1940
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning he ... view
Character:
Mother Zombie
1940
The story of Cinderella with a children's cast. ... view
Character:
Wicked Stepmother
1940
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game. ... view
Character:
Elsie Clark
1940
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, alon ... view
Character:
Mrs. Blair (uncredited)
1940
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, ... view
Character:
Mrs. Margaret Kingsley
1940
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situ ... view
Character:
Miss Holden
1940
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Green
1940
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be s ... view
Character:
Landlady
1940
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Brevoort
1940
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone ... view
Character:
Mrs. Emory
1939
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother. ... view
Character:
Seamstress
1939
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward. ... view
Character:
Mr. Norton's Mother (uncredited)
1939
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides int ... view
Character:
Sophie Claggett
1939
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's har ... view
Character:
Commencement Speaker
1939
Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding father comes to her aid. ... view
Character:
Dressmaker
1939
According to Hollywood, the parents were generally at fault when good kids went bad. This theory is elucidated in Columbia's Parents on Trial, wherein ... view
Character:
Mrs. Martin
1939
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the ... view
Character:
Willie's Mother (uncredited)
1939
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways. ... view
Character:
Nurse (uncredited)
1939
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Kimball
1939
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first l ... view
Character:
Peach Pie Baker (uncredited)
1939
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter. ... view
Character:
Eleanor's Nurse (uncredited)
1939
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love w ... view
Character:
Martha
1939
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give ... view
Character:
Nurse
1939
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge. ... view
Character:
Boy's Mother
1938
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his k ... view
Character:
Boardinghouse Landlady (uncredited)
1938
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h ... view
Character:
Friend of Mrs. McNutt
1938
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Herbert Ellis
1937
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Grant
1937
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to surren ... view
Character:
Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
1937
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fi ... view
Character:
Helen Hammond (poses as "Aunt Jenny")
1937
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship ... view
Character:
Mrs. Dale
1937
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated. ... view
Character:
Sarah Talcott
1937
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign. ... view
Character:
Seamstress (uncredited)
1937
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Hughes
1937
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds. ... view
Character:
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1936
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to m ... view
Character:
Mrs. Blodgett
1936
A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race. ... view
Character:
Aunt Julia
1936
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a ... view
Character:
Marion Sims
1936
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half inte ... view
Character:
Mrs. Trent
1936
A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it. ... view
Character:
Adela Thatcher
1936
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Ar ... view
Character:
Mrs. McLane
1935
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco. ... view
Character:
Mrs. Van Twerp