 Born Carl Pedersen in Copenhagen, Carl Brisson was amateur lightweight boxing champion of Denmark at fifteen, and so it is appropriate he made his UK screen debut as a boxer in Hitchcock's The Ring (1927). He was on stage from 1916, and in 1917 appeared in the Danish film De mystiske fodspor (d. A.W.Sandberg) . He came to the UK in 1921 as a dancer.
After The Ring, he appeared in two other silent films, Hjärtats triumf (Sweden, d. Gustaf Molander, 1928) and The Manxman (d. Hitchcock, 1929).
Brisson was under contract to Paramount in the US (1933-1936), starring in such films as Murder at the Vanities (US, d. Mitchell Leisen, 1934), later becoming a popular nightclub entertainer.
He was the father of Frederick Brisson and father-in-law of Rosalind Russell.
Anthony Slide, Encyclopedia of British Cinema
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