| 词条 | Ernest Cossart |
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| name = Ernest Cossart | image = Ernest Cossart in The Great Ziegfeld trailer.jpg | imagesize = 250px | caption = from the trailer for the film The Great Ziegfeld (1936) | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1876|9|24}} | birth_place = Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1951|1|21|1876|9|24}} | death_place = New York City, New York, US | birth_name = Emil Gottfried von Holst | spouse = Maude Davis (1906–1951; his death) | yearsactive = 1916–1950 }} Ernest Cossart (born Emil Gottfried von Holst, 24 September 1876 – 21 January 1951) was an English-American actor. After a stage career in England, he moved to the US, appearing on Broadway and all around the country. In the 1930s and 1940s, he appeared in films, specialising in playing butlers, valets, and similar roles, but playing a range of other parts. Life and careerCossart was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the younger of the two children of Adolph von Holst (1846–1901), a professional musician, and his first wife, Clara (née Lediard; 1841–1882).[1] The elder child, Gustavus, later known as Gustav Holst, became a leading English composer.[1] Emil attended Cheltenham Grammar School and then became a clerk in a wine company's office. When he decided to pursue an acting career, he took the stage name Ernest Cossart, appearing on stage in Britain before moving to the US in 1908, working in Broadway productions and all over the country.[2] During the First World War, he served in the Canadian army and was severely wounded.[3] After the war, he appeared in musical comedy in the West End before returning to Broadway in 1919.[3] In the late 1920s, Cossart made a return to the London stage, acting with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a West End transfer of a Broadway success, Caprice.[4] In 1932, he appeared as Colonel Tallboys in the world premiere of Bernard Shaw's Too True to Be Good, with Beatrice Lillie and Leo G. Carroll.[5] Cossart moved into acting in Hollywood films in the 1930s. He was often typecast as butlers;[6] The New York Times said of him:{{quote|Butlers, the supreme gift of the British Empire to Hollywood and mystery fiction, are the specialty of Ernest Cossart. You have seen him buttling with frozen gravity and punctilio of bedtick vest in "Two for Tonight" and "Accent on Youth," and you will now see him as the correct gentleman's gentleman in "Angel," which Ernst Lubitsch has made with Marlene Dietrich and Herbert Marshall.[7]|}} In Angel, Cossart and Edward Everett Horton as the servants were judged to have had the best of the film.[8] In addition to such roles, Cossart played a range of different characters, appearing as Pa Monaghan with Ronald Reagan in Kings Row,[9] and as Squire Brown in Tom Brown's School Days.[10] In two films he played Roman Catholic priests, one French and the other Irish-American.[10] During the Second World War, Cossart was a co-founder, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Rathbone, and other expatriate actors, of a fund to help artists in distress in Britain.[11] Cossart died in New York at the age of 74, survived by his wife, the actress Maude Davis, and their daughter, the actress Valerie Cossart (1907–1994).[12][13] Broadway roles
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{{col-end}}Source: British Film Institute[10] References1. ^1 Matthews, Colin. "Holst, Gustav", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 March 2013 {{subscription}} 2. ^"Emil von Holst (Ernest Cossart)" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203032304/http://www.holstmuseum.org.uk/aboutholst-ernest-cossart.htm |date=3 December 2013 }}, Holst Birthplace Museum. Retrieved 20 March 2013 3. ^1 Short, p. 476 4. ^"The Theatres", The Times, 16 May 1929, p. 14 5. ^Atkinson, Brooks. [https://www.nytimes.com/1932/04/05/archives/over-the-coffee-cups-with-george-bernard-shaw-in-a-play-entitled-to.html "Over the Coffee Cups"], The New York Times, 5 April 1932 {{subscription}} 6. ^Asper, H G. "Three smart guys", Film History, 11(2) (1999), pp. 134–53 {{subscription}} 7. ^Jones, Idwall. [https://www.nytimes.com/1937/11/07/archives/buttling-a-way-to-fame.html "Buttling a Way to Fame"], The New York Times, 7 November 1937 {{subscription}} 8. ^"Angel", The Manchester Guardian, 15 February 1938, p. 13 9. ^Tibbetts, John C "Film Reviews", Film & History, 41(2) (2011), pp. 84–85{{subscription}} 10. ^1 2 "Ernest Cossart", British Film Institute; retrieved 20 March 2013. 11. ^"Help for Distressed Actors", The Times, 28 December 1939, p. 4 12. ^"Valerie Cossart", British Film Institute. Retrieved 20 March 2013 13. ^"Deaths", The Times, 24 January 1951, p. 1
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