Forever Young - Brendan Fraser: Austrian Ancestry and World War I Service Revealed

Brendan learns that his great-grandfather, Herman Drobesch, was Austrian, not German, and served in the Austrian artillery corps during World War I. #findingyourroots
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  • @flannerymonaghan-morris4825
    @flannerymonaghan-morris48256 ай бұрын

    Brendan has such a soothing speaking voice…

  • @eizapez3549

    @eizapez3549

    6 ай бұрын

    We met him at a convention a couple of years ago. He was really nice and friendly. He seemed genuinely kind and thankful to meet fans.

  • @mytv89626

    @mytv89626

    6 ай бұрын

    He was paid enough to be there. ​@@eizapez3549

  • @ginaswaney514

    @ginaswaney514

    5 ай бұрын

    I want him to record audiobooks.

  • @OpheliaDarkling

    @OpheliaDarkling

    5 ай бұрын

    @@ginaswaney514 he did one...ties into his work on the movie Inkheart and that author.

  • @neommutle8033

    @neommutle8033

    5 ай бұрын

    Yesssss❤❤ love his voice

  • @TwinsofSins
    @TwinsofSins5 ай бұрын

    Brendan's great-grandmother on his father's side was Anna Maria Pollanz, born on July 13, 1890 in Aibl. Her parents were Josef (born March 16, 1857) and Johanna (maiden name was Brauchart). The house in which Josef Pollanz was born still stands today. My great-grandparents bought this house at the beginning of the 1920s. My grandmother was born there.

  • @NNorka79

    @NNorka79

    5 ай бұрын

    @danielzimt4568 schick ihm Fotos... der kommt Dich besuchen.

  • @TwinsofSins

    @TwinsofSins

    5 ай бұрын

    @@NNorka79 soviel ich weiß, sind nur seine Söhne auf Social media vertreten aber glaube kaum dass er herkommen würde.

  • @Reddy315
    @Reddy3156 ай бұрын

    highly underrated but well deserving actor of the early 2000s

  • @AH-te5gs

    @AH-te5gs

    6 ай бұрын

    He won an Oscar. How is that underrated?

  • @JBaxter-pi8oj

    @JBaxter-pi8oj

    6 ай бұрын

    After a very long dry spell!@@AH-te5gs

  • @nicolad8822

    @nicolad8822

    6 ай бұрын

    @@AH-te5gsAnd the Oscar was just this year!

  • @BlackRbt22

    @BlackRbt22

    6 ай бұрын

    We are friends now.

  • @mytv89626

    @mytv89626

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@BlackRbt22Covert Narcissists don't have friends, they have scapegoats.

  • @m0t0b33
    @m0t0b336 ай бұрын

    Duuude, hearing about the Carpathian front in WW1 and knowing that I'm living in a town that was previously part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and living in a valley in said mountains... chills, literal chills. I mean, I heard the stories about how the mountains that are now ski resorts, were a good battle front during the wars, but to hear about it in an Ancestry video with Brendan Fraser... threw me for a loop.

  • @ferrjuan

    @ferrjuan

    6 ай бұрын

    Yeah about wolves feeding on the dead and wounded on that front. I think both side even declared a truce in order to focus on killing the many wolves that had developed a taste for human meat. Scary stuff.

  • @sodoffbaldrick3038
    @sodoffbaldrick30386 ай бұрын

    It's great to find backstories on my own family because it turns out Brendan is a distant cousin through both his parents. His mom was related to my father and his dad to my mom. He seems to be such a sweet, kind person, and I'm glad to see that he seems to be in a good place now.

  • @sundance81677
    @sundance816775 ай бұрын

    If I ever have a chance to meet an actor or actress, I would consider myself very fortunate to have met Brendan. He seems like an extremely kind and wonderful person.

  • @Kjacks29
    @Kjacks295 ай бұрын

    I liked Brendan’s episode the best, he seemed so genuine and humbled

  • @lagottessa
    @lagottessa6 ай бұрын

    Love the channel, but please lower the volume on the music a bit :-) - it's your lovely voice we are interested in, Henry!

  • @asakarlsson6890
    @asakarlsson689012 күн бұрын

    Mr Brendan Fraser is a GREAT actor and a human being! Love the history of his family.

  • @gayleralan
    @gayleralan5 ай бұрын

    Fellow Carinthian here. As soon as he said Drobesch, I knew he was Carinthian! If Brendan is ever in Austria and some asks where he's from....he's a Kärntna Streira bua!

  • @rustygribbler1380
    @rustygribbler13805 ай бұрын

    Brendan Fraser needs to be protected at all times he was our childhood in the 90s him as Rick O’Connell and George from the jungle

  • @karins.2853
    @karins.28536 ай бұрын

    Past Present and Future are all happening in the Now!!! ♡♡♡ ANGEL BLESSINGS TO ALL FINDING THEIR ROOTS!!! luv ya Brendan!!!❤

  • @BlueMilkTea443
    @BlueMilkTea4436 ай бұрын

    Brendann❤❤❤

  • @jlcollins14
    @jlcollins146 ай бұрын

    This is the only time I have ever been disappointed watching this show. I was hoping for a dive down the Fraser line. I have Fraser ancestors that come from roughly the same area as Brendan's dad and I've been unable to confirm a connection. I was hoping to uncover we're cousins :) He's been one of my favorite celebs since I was young. Otherwise, I'm very happy for what he had uncovered in his family history. A great story to share. :D

  • @hectorsmommy1717

    @hectorsmommy1717

    6 ай бұрын

    They usually pick a line the guest doesn't know about or has questions about, or that tells a good story with general historical value like his 2x gr-grandfather going on strike and shooting at the scab. He probably also knows quite a lot about his Fraser line. Looking forward to next week. They don't often have Native American guests and Wes Studi will be on (along with LeVar Burton).

  • @nicolad8822

    @nicolad8822

    6 ай бұрын

    Fraser is a very common name, and they would be going into that level of detail.

  • @medusagorgon8432
    @medusagorgon84326 ай бұрын

    I'm glad you were able to find what he was looking for, but I can't help but think how useless and mindless war is. The fighting and the senseless trauma! There is simply no place for it when humans are fully capable of talking every single conflict out.

  • @hilariagonzalez5908
    @hilariagonzalez59086 ай бұрын

    Wow! That's amazing what you uncover!?

  • @DaChaGee
    @DaChaGee5 ай бұрын

    I think they got the towns wrong. At beginning it says his grandfather was born in St. Peter, Klagenfurt. St. Peter is a district of Klagenfurt. There is no St. Peter in southern Carinthia. The spot they mark on the map is Slovenia, Carinthia never went that far down.

  • @thesoundofmymusic5363

    @thesoundofmymusic5363

    29 күн бұрын

    The actually mean St. Peter bei Grafenstein. Hermann was born there. There is also a parish in Klagenfurt with the same name, but that is not where he was born. But you are right: the place on the map is just somewhere in the south of Europe ;-))

  • @WendyDarling1974
    @WendyDarling19745 ай бұрын

    My grandfather served in the artillery for the German Army throughout World War I. it was a hellish experience, three years worth of death, and seeing his friends, all die around him. Have never been able to get any records on him because so many records were destroyed due to the next war.

  • @matejajostkodrun3003
    @matejajostkodrun30035 ай бұрын

    Part Slovenian too, great. Before independence we were called whatever nation ruled over us. In this sense all my family in that time was austrian.

  • @robertfeeney9857
    @robertfeeney98575 ай бұрын

    Brendan Fraser been an actor since 1990-2024 because he was born in 1968!

  • @jessestanley1690
    @jessestanley16905 ай бұрын

    Looking good Brendan

  • @nancyhuffman5802
    @nancyhuffman58026 ай бұрын

    My husband's family thought they were German, but ancestry showed younger daughter , that they were Austrian, not German.

  • @intermilan9731

    @intermilan9731

    5 ай бұрын

    Austrian, German same thing

  • @DaxXadify
    @DaxXadify6 ай бұрын

    i hope he will be cast as Medic/ Special Forces/ SSGt Sadler, if ever a biopic be made about him. He can do a nice Sadler, the singer/co-composer of the 1966 hit song "Ballad of the Green Berets"

  • @wardarcade7452
    @wardarcade74525 ай бұрын

    Actually, Styria was the Austrian name of their territory what comprised most of what is now the independent nation of Slovenia. Hence, it's possible that Brendan Fraser's great-grandmother might have had at least some Slovenian ancestry!

  • @kyihsin2917
    @kyihsin29176 ай бұрын

    Is the red dot for St Peter at 0:54 in the right place? It's in modern-day Slovenia, what would have been Carniola, not Carinthia, at the time. There are so many little villages named St. Peter, and so many name changes that have happened in the meantime, that's it's hard to be sure which one is meant. I suspect it's Pivka (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivka), which was called St. Peter in Krain before WW1.

  • @anav9130

    @anav9130

    6 ай бұрын

    The red dot is surely in the wrong place. St Peter they are referring to is, I think, in today's Southern Austria, it is one of the areas of Klagenfurt (Slovenian Celovec) where the Slovenian minority lives. Surname Drobesch is surely a Slovenian surname Drobež. So it is rather inaccurate to say that Herman was Austrian...

  • @anav9130

    @anav9130

    6 ай бұрын

    St. Peter in today's Austria (part of Klagenfurt) is in Carinthia

  • @anav9130

    @anav9130

    6 ай бұрын

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthian_Slovenes

  • @anav9130

    @anav9130

    6 ай бұрын

    The surname of Herman's wife is also a Slovene one (Polanc, Germanised as Pollanz). Should be clear also from his DNA results I guess. Welcome to our Slovenian family, Brendan!

  • @TwinsofSins

    @TwinsofSins

    5 ай бұрын

    It is quite possible that Pollanz lived in what is now Slovenia before 1776. The place where the Pollanz lived is not far from the Slovenian border. My ancestors also moved from Slovenia to Austria.​@@anav9130

  • @JTM1809
    @JTM18095 ай бұрын

    Also, Drobesch is not a German family name, rather it's a Germanized version of Drobeš, a Czech family name.

  • @DaChaGee

    @DaChaGee

    5 ай бұрын

    It's Slovene. From the Carinthian-Slovenes.

  • @constanceardiles-lee3707
    @constanceardiles-lee37075 ай бұрын

    Cousin!!!!

  • @Taina2024
    @Taina20243 ай бұрын

    Wait, so he's Irish and Austrian, and what else? Why does he look mulatto? Is he mixed? I wish I could see the full thing! I've been seeing bits and pieces everywhere! Lol

  • @tinabrenner3562
    @tinabrenner35626 ай бұрын

    These people were in 2 world wars and a pandemic etc and today the losers lament 24/7

  • @barefootprofessor3455
    @barefootprofessor34555 ай бұрын

    Austrians are German too 😂

  • @nirish25
    @nirish256 ай бұрын

    Brendan is an Irish name

  • @sugarkane4830

    @sugarkane4830

    6 ай бұрын

    No flies on you eh?

  • @mytv89626

    @mytv89626

    6 ай бұрын

    He's only 1/5 German (or Austrian). He's also French (Canadian), Irish, Scottish, and Czech. And 100% Liar.

  • @DaChaGee

    @DaChaGee

    5 ай бұрын

    @@mytv89626 How is he German?

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