Frederick Brisson

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Biography

Producer

  • Primary profession
  • Producer·miscellaneous·actor
  • Country
  • Denmark
  • Nationality
  • Danish
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 17 March 1912
  • Death date
  • 1984-10-08
  • Death age
  • 72

Trivia

Son of Carl Brisson

Awarded a Tony Award in 1956 for his production of the musical, "Damn Yankees," shared with Robert Griffith and Harold S. Prince in association with Albert B. Taylor.

Son with Rosalind Russell , Lance Brisson born 1943

He was separated from his widow Arlette at the time of his death. Two weeks after he died, his son Lance launched a suit against Arlette, challenging her rights to his estate. After two years, a settlement was reached.

His son married actress Patricia Morrow on March 15, 1975. They divorced in the 1980s.

He was at his first wife Rosalind Russell s bedside when she died.

His wife, Arlette, was a consultant to a communications company and a vice president of Tiffany & Company. She was born around 1939.

Served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

In England from the age of ten.

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