Ernest Cossart
Popularity:0.1457
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1876-09-24
Place of Birth:Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Also Known As:Emil Gottfried von Holst

The Jolson Story (1946)
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business....

Tower of London (1939)
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne,...

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his...

The Scoundrel (1935)
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a...

Tonight and Every Night (1945)
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a...

Angel (1937)
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's...

Cluny Brown (1946)
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

Love from a Stranger (1947)
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel...

Kings Row (1942)
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

Skylark (1941)
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business....

Desire (1936)
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of...

A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
Father's return from the insane asylum spells calamity for the Fairfield family.

Love Letters (1945)
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing...

Never Say Die (1939)
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry...

The Magnificent Fraud (1939)
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.

My American Wife (1936)
Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

Murder with Pictures (1936)
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for...

The Light That Failed (1939)
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

Two for Tonight (1935)
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

Zaza (1938)
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.

Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In...

Kitty Foyle (1940)
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

Letter of Introduction (1938)
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also...

Palm Springs (1936)
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.

The Lady Fights Back (1937)
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale....

John Loves Mary (1949)
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That...

Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.

Three Smart Girls (1936)
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and...

Carnival Queen (1937)
A young woman not only inherits her late father's estate, she also gets control of a carnival on the edge of bankruptcy in this comedy. Intrigued by...

Champagne Waltz (1937)
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...

Top of the Town (1937)
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper....

Accent on Youth (1935)
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.

The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her...

It's Your America (1946)
This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World...

Charley's Aunt (1941)
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

As Good as Married (1937)
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.