Ivan Triesault
Ivan Triesault (born Johann Constantin Treisalt; 13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1898 in Reval (now Tallinn) – January 3, 1980 in Los Angeles) was an Estonian-born American actor. His parents were from the island of Hiiumaa.
His first stage appearance was at the German Theatre in Tallinn aged 14, before moving to the United States aged 18. There he began to train in acting and dance, working on Broadway before moving into film. His notable roles include appearances in Cry of the Werewolf (1944), The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), A Song to Remember (1945), Notorious (1946), 5 Fingers (1952), Jet Pilot (1957), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), It Happened in Athens (1962), Von Ryan's Express (1965), Batman (1966) and The Wild Wild West. He died in 1980 due to cardiac failure at age 81.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.725 |
Birthday | 1898-07-12 |
Place of Birth | Reval, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Estonia] |
Also Known As | Ivan Tresault, Ivan Trisault, Johann Constantin Treisalt, |
1946
Notorious
7.743/1603
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war c...
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1945
Escape in the Fog
5.2/35
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a m...
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Escape in the Fog
1964
Viva Las Vegas
6.2/138
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets...
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Viva Las Vegas
1965
Von Ryan's Express
7.1/213
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win ov...
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Von Ryan's Express
1960
The Amazing Transparent Man
3.8/55
An ex-major forces a scientist to develop a invisibility formula, with which he plans to create an invisible army and sell it to the highest bidder. H...
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The Amazing Transparent Man
1960
Cimarron
6/62
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
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Cimarron
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful
7.321/252
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1958
Fraulein
7/1
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
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Fraulein
1944
Cry of the Werewolf
4.3/22
A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies.
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Cry of the Werewolf
1946
Don't Be a Sucker!
6.8/13
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made t...
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Don't Be a Sucker!
1949
Johnny Allegro
6.2/15
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hun...
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Johnny Allegro
1957
Jet Pilot
5.5/42
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold...
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Jet Pilot
1950
Spy Hunt
5.9/8
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a...
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Spy Hunt
1955
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
6.2/27
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1944
Days of Glory
5.72/25
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
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Days of Glory
1947
Golden Earrings
5.8/8
A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
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Golden Earrings
1951
Target Unknown
0/0
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.
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Target Unknown
1948
To the Ends of the Earth
5.6/16
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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To the Ends of the Earth
1953
How to Marry a Millionaire
6.8/518
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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How to Marry a Millionaire
1951
The Lady and the Bandit
6/3
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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The Lady and the Bandit
1949
D.O.A.
6.9/170
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determi...
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D.O.A.
1947
The Crimson Key
4.3/3
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife...
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The Crimson Key
1949
The Sickle or the Cross
6/1
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Re...
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The Sickle or the Cross
1959
Journey to the Center of the Earth
6.9/461
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
1944
Uncertain Glory
6.6/21
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the in...
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Uncertain Glory
1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
6.6/104
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1944
The Black Parachute
5.5/2
A paratrooper drops behind enemy lines to rescue the deposed king of a mythical Balkan nation.
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The Black Parachute
1962
The 300 Spartans
6.4/134
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hol...
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The 300 Spartans
1950
Kim
6.2/26
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English s...
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Kim
1952
5 Fingers
7.6/87
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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5 Fingers
1953
Young Bess
5.9/17
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je...
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Young Bess
1958
The Young Lions
6.8/132
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
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The Young Lions
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
7.2/6
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he i...
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1949
Home in San Antone
0/0
Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas....
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Home in San Antone
1954
Border River
6.2/19
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in thi...
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1944
The Mummy's Ghost
5.757/72
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning th...
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The Mummy's Ghost
1965
Morituri
6.8/78
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for German...
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Morituri
1944
Strange Affair
6.2/4
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up f...
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Strange Affair
1966
Batman
6.419/959
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
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1962
Escapade in Florence
6.7/6
American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.
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1967
The Search for the Evil One
0/0
A team of agents is sent to a secret location in South America to investigate reports that a group of Nazis actually rescued Adolf Hitler at the end o...
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1948
The Woman from Tangier
5/1
This one has Nylon, an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with the police, and she stops off at Tangiers on her way...
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1954
Charge of the Lancers
4/1
The downward spiral of the quality of films Paulette Goddard appeared in in the 1950's would cause a gravitational blackout to anyone viewing them in...
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Charge of the Lancers
1958
Mardi Gras
5.6/7
A military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.
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Mardi Gras
1946
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
5.8/4
A criminal psychologist investigates the murder of a veteran with amnesia.
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Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
1943
Mission to Moscow
5.2/17
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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Mission to Moscow
1953
A Tale of Two Cities
0/0
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.
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A Tale of Two Cities
1945
A Song to Remember
6.3/24
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A Song to Remember
1945
Counter-Attack
6/11
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
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Counter-Attack
1962
It Happened in Athens
5.1/8
In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Onc...
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It Happened in Athens
1960
I'll Give My Life
6/1
This story opens with John Bradford throwing a graduation party for his son, Jim, who has just earned a degree in engineering. John has planned to mak...
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I'll Give My Life
1969
The Lady, or the Tiger?
0/0
A visually experimental adaptation of the classic Frank Stockton short story.
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The Lady, or the Tiger?
1961
Barabbas
6.9/154
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barab...
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Barabbas
1957
Not One Shall Die
0/0
A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core c...
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Not One Shall Die
1954
Her Twelve Men
5.7/3
An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.
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Her Twelve Men
1951
My True Story
6/3
Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old, viciou...
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