Virginia Brissac

From Wikipedia 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: Acting

Born: San Jose, California, USA, 1883-06-10

Died: 1979-07-26

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1935	Honeymoon Limited	Mrs. Van Twerp	60
2	1936	Three Godfathers	Mrs. McLane	68
3	1936	Murder by an Aristocrat	Adela Thatcher	30
4	1936	The Big Noise	Mrs. Trent	50
5	1936	Two Against the World	Marion Sims	58
6	1936	Down the Stretch	Aunt Julia	55
7	1936	Love Letters of a Star	Mrs. Blodgett	0
8	1937	Stolen Holiday	Wedding Guest (uncredited)	66
9	1937	Mountain Justice	Mrs. Hughes	55
10	1937	Artists & Models	Seamstress (uncredited)	60
11	1937	White Bondage	Sarah Talcott	60
12	1937	Idol of the Crowds	Mrs. Dale	48
13	1937	The Adventurous Blonde	Helen Hammond (poses as "Aunt Jenny")	54
14	1937	The Man in the Barn	Farmer's Wife (uncredited)	53
15	1937	The Bad Man of Brimstone	Mrs. Grant	60
16	1938	Delinquent Parents	Mrs. Herbert Ellis	80
17	1938	Gateway	Friend of Mrs. McNutt	65
18	1938	Young Dr. Kildare	Boardinghouse Landlady (uncredited)	65
19	1939	Jesse James	Boy's Mother	64
20	1939	Wings of the Navy	Nurse	60
21	1939	Dark Victory	Martha	70
22	1939	Invitation to Happiness	Eleanor's Nurse (uncredited)	0
23	1939	Young Mr. Lincoln	Peach Pie Baker (uncredited)	72
24	1939	The Forgotten Woman	Mrs. Kimball	0
25	1939	I Stole a Million	Nurse (uncredited)	60
26	1939	They Shall Have Music	Willie's Mother (uncredited)	60
27	1939	Parents on Trial	Mrs. Martin	0
28	1939	Stop, Look and Love	Dressmaker	50
29	1939	First Love	Commencement Speaker	78
30	1939	Destry Rides Again	Sophie Claggett	72
31	1939	A Child Is Born	Mr. Norton's Mother (uncredited)	65
32	1939	The Cisco Kid and the Lady	Seamstress	49
33	1940	Remember the Night	Mrs. Emory	73
34	1940	Little Old New York	Mrs. Brevoort	40
35	1940	Black Friday	Mrs. Margaret Kingsley	60
36	1940	The House Across the Bay	Landlady	53
37	1940	Little Orvie	Mrs. Green	70
38	1940	It's a Date	Miss Holden	64
39	1940	If I Had My Way	Mrs. Blair (uncredited)	64
40	1940	Alias the Deacon	Elsie Clark	0
41	1940	Cinderella's Feller	Wicked Stepmother	0
42	1940	The Ghost Breakers	Mother Zombie	65
43	1940	All This, and Heaven Too	Nun (uncredited)	71
44	1940	Hired Wife	Miss Collins (uncredited)	68
45	1940	Strike Up the Band	Mrs. May Holden	62
46	1940	Always a Bride	Lucy Bond	45
47	1940	Lady with Red Hair	Miss Humbert (uncredited)	65
48	1940	Chad Hanna	Landlady	60
49	1941	The Great Lie	Sadie	69
50	1941	Washington Melodrama	Mrs. Curzon	50
51	1941	The Nurse's Secret	Mary	50
52	1941	Bad Men of Missouri	Mrs. Hathaway	56
53	1941	Dressed to Kill	Lynne Evans	64
54	1941	The Little Foxes	Mrs. Hewitt	75
55	1941	Appointment for Love	Nora	52
56	1941	One Foot in Heaven	Mrs. Jellison (uncredited)	66
57	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Woman (uncredited)	66
58	1941	Remember the Day	Mrs. Hill	66
59	1942	Lady Gangster	Mrs. Stoner	58
60	1942	Take a Letter, Darling	Mrs. Dowling - Landlady (uncredited)	65
61	1942	Tough as They Come	Mrs. Clark	0
62	1942	The Big Shot	Mrs. Booth	63
63	1942	Get Hep to Love	Mrs. Brown	40
64	1942	The Mummy's Tomb	Mrs. Ella Evans	57
65	1942	Lucky Jordan	Clarence's Wife	60
66	1942	Mug Town	Mrs. Bell	70
67	1943	The Hard Way	Dress Saleswoman (Uncredited)	66
68	1943	Shadow of a Doubt	Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)	75
69	1943	The Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case	Patricia Cornwall	48
70	1943	Moonlight in Vermont	Aunt Bess	60
71	1944	Phantom Lady	Dr. Helen Chase	70
72	1944	This Is the Life	Mrs. Tiggett	50
73	1944	Song of the Open Road	Camp Matron (uncredited)	0
74	1944	Sing, Neighbor, Sing	Cornelia Blake	0
75	1944	Marriage Is a Private Affair	Mrs. Courtland West	52
76	1944	Faces in the Fog	Miss Harvey, Juror	30
77	1944	Together Again	Townswoman	54
78	1945	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Miss Tilford (uncredited)	76
79	1945	G.I. Honeymoon	Lavinia Thorndyke	0
80	1945	The Scarlet Clue	Mrs. Marsh	59
81	1945	Three's a Crowd	Cary Whipple	0
82	1945	Thrill of a Romance	Ms. McKenzie (uncredited)	62
83	1945	Captain Eddie	Flo Clark	60
84	1945	Bewitched	Martha--Governor's Wife	53
85	1945	Why Girls Leave Home	Mrs. Leslie	50
86	1946	Hot Cargo	Mrs. Chapman	0
87	1946	The Mysterious Mr. M	Cornelia Waldron	38
88	1946	The Mysterious Mr. Valentine	Martha, the Housekeeper	43
89	1946	Sister Kenny	Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)	65
90	1947	Pursued	Woman at the Wedding (uncredited)	65
91	1947	Monsieur Verdoux	Carlotta Couvais	77
92	1947	Secret Beyond the Door	Sarah (uncredited)	65
93	1947	Captain from Castile	Doña Maria De Vargas (uncredited)	72
94	1948	Three Daring Daughters	Miss Drake (uncredited)	57
95	1948	The Mating of Millie	Mrs. Thomas	68
96	1948	Summer Holiday	Miss Hawley	49
97	1948	Old Los Angeles	Señora Del Rey	55
98	1948	The Untamed Breed	Mrs. Jones	50
99	1948	The Snake Pit	Miss Seiffert	71
100	1948	An Act of Murder	Mrs. Russell	68
101	1949	The Last Bandit	Kate's Mother	60
102	1949	The Doolins of Oklahoma	Mrs. Burton (uncredited)	68
103	1949	Tension	Mrs. Andrews (uncredited)	68
104	1950	No Man of Her Own	Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)	69
105	1950	Cheaper by the Dozen	Mrs. Benson (uncredited)	63
106	1950	Edge of Doom	Mrs. Dennis	59
107	1950	Harriet Craig	Mother of Harriet Craig (Uncredited)	75
108	1951	Operation Pacific	Sister Anna	60
109	1951	Two of a Kind	Maida McIntyre	67
110	1952	Woman of the North Country	Mrs. Dawson	45
111	1953	Meet Me at the Fair	Mrs. Spooner	70
112	1953	Fair Wind to Java	Bintang	49
113	1953	The Bandits of Corsica	Maria	58
114	1954	Executive Suite	Edith Alderson	70
115	1954	About Mrs. Leslie	Mrs. Poole	70
116	1955	Rebel Without a Cause	Jim's Grandmother	75

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	I Love Lucy	Mrs. Hammond	80
2	1951	Dragnet		65
3	1952	Chevron Theatre		100
4	1953	The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse		0
5	1953	The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse	Mrs. Adams	0
6	1954	The Lone Wolf	Mrs. Kimbo	70
7	1954	The Lone Wolf	Mrs. Bell	70
8	1954	Studio 57		0