Virginia Brissac

• Born: 1890
• Died: 1979 in Hollywood, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '30s-'40s
• Major Genres: Drama, Romance
• Career Highlights: Summer Holiday, Monsieur Verdoux, Three's a Crowd
• First Major Screen Credit: Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)

Biography

Stern-visaged American actress Virginia Brissac was a well-established stage actress in the early part of the 20th century. For several seasons in the 1920s, she headed a travelling stock company bearing her name. Once Brissac settled down in Hollywood in 1935, she carved a niche in authoritative parts, spending the next twenty years playing a steady stream of schoolteachers, college deans, duennas and society matrons. Once in a while, Virginia Brissac was allowed to "cut loose" with a raving melodramatic part: in Bob Hope's The Ghost Breakers, she dons a coat of blackface makeup and screams with spine-tingling conviction as the bewitched mother of zombie Noble Johnson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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