George Beranger

Known for ActingBorn 1893-03-27Died 1973-03-08Enmore, New South Wales, Australia

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.Read more

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One New York Night

Mama Loves Papa

Beware of Bachelors

Powder My Back

The Eagle of the Sea

Are Parents People?

Once in a Blue Moon

Olsen’s Big Moment

The Age for Love

Glad Rag Doll

Paradise for Two

If I Were Single

The Man in Blue

Number 17

A Manhattan Knight

Over My Dead Body

He Stayed for Breakfast

King of the Islands

Ship Cafe

Three Girls Lost

Annabelle's Affairs

Strange Cargo

The Small Bachelor

Altars of Desire

Miss Brewster's Millions

Hot Cakes for Two

Grounds for Divorce

A Woman's Faith

Poisoned Paradise

The Leopardess

When Love Forgives

The Big Noise

The Big Parade

Snowed Under

Nightmare Alley

Café Metropole

The Grand Duchess and the Waiter

Confessions of a Queen

The Singing Kid

Hot Money

The Lady of the Harem

Beauty and the Bad Man

His Hour

Beau Brummel

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Western Luck

Dulcy

The Bright Shawl