Herbert Brenon

Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon, 1916
Born	13 January 1880 Dublin, Ireland
Died	21 June 1958 (aged 78) Los Angeles, California
Alma mater	King's College London
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1911 – 1940

Herbert Brenon and Alla Nazimova with a camera in his studio, August 9, 1916.

Herbert Brenon reading Rupert Hughes' Empty Pockets.

The mausoleum of Herbert Brenon in Woodlawn Cemetery

Herbert Brenon (13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon was an Irish film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent movies through the 1930s. He was born in Dublin and was educated at St Paul's School and at King's College London. Before becoming a director, he performed in vaudeville acts with his wife, Helen Oberg.

Some of his more noteworthy films were the first movie adaptations of Peter Pan (1924) and Beau Geste (1926), Sorrell and Son (1927) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards, Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) with Lon Chaney, and The Flying Squad (1940), his last. He died in Los Angeles, California and was interred in a private mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY.^[1]

Partial filmography

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)
• Ivanhoe (1913 U.S. film) (1913)
• Absinthe (1914)
• Neptune's Daughter (1914)
• The Kreutzer Sonata (1915)
• The Heart of Maryland (1915)
• The Clemenceau Case (1915)
• The Two Orphans (1915)
• Sin (1915)
• The Soul of Broadway (1915)
• A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
• War Brides (1916)
• The Fall of the Romanoffs (1917)
• The Lone Wolf (1917)
• Empty Pockets (1918)
• Victory and Peace (1918)
• The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1918)
• 12.10 (1919)
• Beatrice (1919)
• The Mysterious Princess (1920)
• The Passion Flower (1921)
• The Stronger Passion (1921)
• Little Sister (1921)
• Moonshine Valley (1922)
• Shackles of Gold (1922)
• The Spanish Dancer (1923)
• The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
• The Alaskan (1924)
• Peter Pan (1924)
• The Side Show of Life (1924)
• A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
• Dancing Mothers (1926)
• The Great Gatsby (1926)
• Beau Geste (1926)
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
• The Rescue (1929)
• The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
• Lummox (1930)
• Honours Easy (1935)
• Royal Cavalcade (1935)
• Someone at the Door (1936)
• Living Dangerously (1936)
• The Live Wire (1937)
• The Dominant Sex (1937)
• Spring Handicap (1937)
• Housemaster (1938)
• Yellow Sands (1938)
• Black Eyes (1939)
• The Flying Squad (1940)

References

1. Herbert Brenon at Find a Grave

External links

• Works by or about Herbert Brenon at Internet Archive
• Herbert Brenon at the Internet Movie Database
• Herbert Brenon at Virtual History