Michael Visaroff
Michael Visaroff | |
|---|---|
 Visaroff in The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) | |
| Born | Mikhail Semonovich Visaroff December 18, 1889 |
| Died | February 27, 1951 (aged 61) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1925–1952 |
| Spouse(s) | Nina Visaroff (m. 192?; died 1938) |
Michael Simeon Visaroff (born Mikhail Semenonovich Vizarov (Russian: Михаил Семёнович Визаров); December 18, 1889[1][2] – February 27, 1951) was a Russian-born character actor, who worked in the United States on stage and screen.
Biography
Visaroff was born in Moscow, Russian Empire.[3] He was a graduate of the Russian Principal Dramatic School.
Visaroff started his career on stage: In July 1922, Visaroff came to the United States with a group from the Kamerny Theatre in Moscow. With a 14-week leave of absence from Russia, the group planned to present 12 plays, each lasting one week, in a Broadway theater.[4]
He eventually made the transition to film, appearing in more than 110 films between 1925 and 1952. He was best known for his uncredited appearance in an early scene of Dracula (1931) as the nervous Hungarian innkeeper who, as Renfield is traveling to meet the Count, warns him about the actual existence of vampires.
Personal life
When Visaroff came to the US in July 1922 he was already married to Nina Visaroff, according to the passenger list, and they had a daughter named Lydia. Yet they got married again in 1924 in New York.[2] His age in the passenger list is stated as 32 and in the naturalization file dated in March 1929, is given as 39 meaning that he was born in 1889 and not in 1892 as he claimed later in his life.
He died in Hollywood, California, from pneumonia in 1951.[3][5]
Partial filmography
- Paris (1926)
- The Nickel-Hopper (1926)
- Valencia (1926)
- The Sunset Derby (1927)
- Two Arabian Knights (1927)
- The Last Command (1928)
- Ramona (1928)
- Tempest (1928)
- The Night Bird (1928)
- We Americans (1928)
- Lullaby (1929)
- Marquis Preferred (1929)
- House of Horror (1929)
- Disraeli (1929)
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
- Morocco (1930)
- Dracula (1931) (uncredited)
- Mata Hari (1931) (uncredited)
- Chinatown After Dark (1931)
- Arizona Terror (1931)
- Six Hours to Live (1932)
- Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- The Magnificent Brute (1936)
- The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
- I'll Give a Million (1938)
- Paris Honeymoon (1939)
- The Flying Deuces (1939) (uncredited)
- Everything Happens at Night (1939)
- Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
- Reunion in France (1942) (uncredited)
- Paris After Dark (1943) - Paul
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
- Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
- Don Ricardo Returns (1946)
References
- ^ Naturalization file. "Ancestry.com". Ancestry.com.
- ^ 2.0 2.1 Marriage certificate. "Ancestry.com".
- ^ 3.0 3.1 Ellenberger, Allan R. (2001). Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory. McFarland. p. 15. ISBN 9780786450190. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- ^ "Here to Arrange Tour of Soviet Players". The New York Times. New York, New York City. July 10, 1922. p. 13. Retrieved January 4, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913–1929
External links
- Michael Visaroff at IMDb
- Michael Visaroff at AllMovie
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- 1892 births
- 1951 deaths
- American people of Russian descent
- Deaths from pneumonia in California
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
- Male actors from Moscow
- Russian male film actors
- Russian male silent film actors
- 20th-century American male actors