George Beranger
Acting
- Born:
- 1893-03-27
- Died:
- 1973-03-08
- Place of birth:
- Enmore, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Beranger (27 March 1893 – 8 March 1973), also known as André Beranger, was an Australian actor and Hollywood and stage director. Beranger began playing Shakespearean roles at the age of sixteen with the Walter Bentley Players. He then emigrated from Australia to California, United States in 1912 and worked in the silent film industry in Hollywood. According to a researcher, he "reinvented himself in Hollywood, claiming French parentage, birth on a French ocean liner off the coast of Australia and a Paris education." Beranger worked under the names George Alexandre Beranger and André de Beranger. By the 1920s, Beranger had become a star, appearing in the movies of Ernst Lubitsch and D. W. Griffith. He also directed ten films between 1914 and 1924. Beranger owned a large Spanish-style home in Laguna Beach, rented a room at the Hollywood Athletic Club and owned an apartment in Paris, France. Beranger eventually appeared in more than 140 films between 1913 and 1950. Beranger's career dissipated following the 1930s Great Depression and the advent of sound film, and his roles in later films were small and often uncredited. He supplemented his income as a draftsman for the Los Angeles City Council. He sold his large properties and moved into a modest cottage beside his house in Laguna Beach. He entered into a "lavender marriage" with a neighbouring widow, but they never shared the same house and he continued his gay lifestyle unabated. Beranger retired in 1952 and lived his later years in seclusion. He was found dead of natural causes in his home on 8 March 1973. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Beranger licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Dancing in the Dark
You're My Everything
The Fan
Road House
Nightmare Alley
Saratoga Trunk
Over My Dead Body
Our Wife
She Knew All the Answers
He Stayed for Breakfast
Beauty for the Asking
I'll Take Romance
Hollywood Round-Up
Fight for Your Lady
San Quentin
Café Metropole
Ready, Willing and Able
King of Hockey
Walking on Air
China Clipper
Hot Money
The Big Noise
Bullets or Ballots
The Singing Kid
Snowed Under
Colleen
Love Before Breakfast
The Walking Dead
King of the Islands
Dangerous
Stars Over Broadway
Ship Cafe
Don't Bet on Blondes
Once in a Blue Moon
One New York Night
Clive of India
The Payoff
Jimmy the Gent
Mama Loves Papa
Ex-Lady
Olsen’s Big Moment
Ladies of the Jury
Surrender
The Age for Love
Annabelle's Affairs
Three Girls Lost
The Boudoir Diplomat
Lilies of the Field
Darkened Rooms
Glad Rag Doll
Strange Cargo
Stark Mad
Beware of Bachelors
Powder My Back
The Garden of Eden
If I Were Single
The Small Bachelor
Altars of Desire
Paradise for Two
The Popular Sin
The Lady of the Harem
The Eagle of the Sea
Fig Leaves
So This Is Paris
Miss Brewster's Millions
The Bat
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Hot Cakes for Two
Time, the Comedian
The Big Parade
A Woman's Faith
Grounds for Divorce
Are Parents People?
The Man in Blue
Confessions of a Queen
Beauty and the Bad Man
His Hour
Beau Brummel
Poisoned Paradise
The Man Life Passed By
Tiger Rose
The Extra Girl
Dulcy
Ashes of Vengeance
The Bright Shawl
The Leopardess
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Sandy
The Spotted Lily
Time Locks and Diamonds
A Daughter of the Poor
A Love Sublime
Those Without Sin
Mixed Blood
Manhattan Madness
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Pillars of Society
The Half-Breed
The Good Bad-Man
Let Katie Do it
The She-Devil
Flirting with Fate
Bred in the Bone
The Birth of a Nation
The Avenging Conscience
Home, Sweet Home
The Adopted Brother
When Love Forgives
The Switchtower
The Well