Virginia Brissac
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Artists & Models
1937
Hot Cargo
1946
Lady Gangster
1942
Monsieur Verdoux
1947
Dark Victory
1939
Two of a Kind
1951
Remember the Night
1940
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
Dressed to Kill
1941
Bewitched
1945
Edge of Doom
1950
The Ghost Breakers
1940
The Little Foxes
1941
Phantom Lady
1944
Destry Rides Again
1939
The Snake Pit
1948
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
1946
The Scarlet Clue
1945
The Big Shot
1942
The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case
1943
Harriet Craig
1950
Captain from Castile
1947
About Mrs. Leslie
1954
The Bandits of Corsica
1953
Three's a Crowd
1945
The Mysterious Mr. M
1946
Secret Beyond the Door
1947
Lucky Jordan
1942
Three Godfathers
1936
Down the Stretch
1936
Song of the Open Road
1944
Why Girls Leave Home
1945
The Man in the Barn
1937
Little Old New York
1940
Appointment for Love
1941
Delinquent Parents
1938
Chad Hanna
1940
Operation Pacific
1951
Murder by an Aristocrat
1936
Washington Melodrama
1941
The Forgotten Woman
1939
Together Again
1944
Stolen Holiday
1937
Always a Bride
1940
Strike Up the Band
1940
Fair Wind to Java
1953
Stop, Look and Love
1939
Cheaper by the Dozen
1950
It's a Date
1940
Young Dr. Kildare
1938
The Big Noise
1936
Tension
1949
Hired Wife
1940
Alias the Deacon
1940
Mountain Justice
1937
The Nurse's Secret
1941
Jesse James
1939
Wings of the Navy
1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
A Child is Born
1939
They Shall Have Music
1939
Invitation to Happiness
1939
First Love
1939
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939
The Mating of Millie
1948
The Hard Way
1943
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
Black Friday
1940
Sing, Neighbor, Sing
1944
Sister Kenny
1946
Shadow of a Doubt
1943
The Adventurous Blonde
1937
The Great Lie
1941
The Untamed Breed
1948
White Bondage
1937
Little Orvie
1940
Parents on Trial
1939
G.I. Honeymoon
1945
Two Against the World
1936
Captain Eddie
1945
Three Daring Daughters
1948
Summer Holiday
1948
No Man of Her Own
1950
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
Gateway
1938
The House Across the Bay
1940
Lady with Red Hair
1940
Cinderella's Feller
1940
An Act of Murder
1948
Take a Letter, Darling
1942
Faces in the Fog
1944
Tough as They Come
1942
Mug Town
1942
Old Los Angeles
1948
Bad Men of Missouri
1941
The Last Bandit
1949
Woman of the North Country
1952
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Honeymoon Limited
1935
Remember the Day
1941
I Stole a Million
1939
Get Hep to Love
1942
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937
Idol of the Crowds
1937
If I Had My Way
1940
This Is the Life
1944
Love Letters of a Star
1936
Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944
Pursued
1947
Meet Me at the Fair
1953
Executive Suite
1954
One Foot in Heaven
1941
Moonlight in Vermont
1943
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
Thrill of a Romance
1945
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
1954
I Love Lucy
1951
The Lone Wolf
1954
The Lone Wolf
1954
Studio 57
1954
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1953
Chevron Theatre
1952
Dragnet
1951