George Beranger
Acting
Born 1893-03-27
Died 1973-03-08
Enmore, New South Wales, Australia
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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.
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Acting
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The Birth of a Nation
Nightmare Alley
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Big Parade
Our Wife
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Bullets or Ballots
Saratoga Trunk
Three Girls Lost
Sandy
Manhattan Madness
The Fan
Jimmy the Gent
Road House
The Walking Dead
The Leopardess
The Singing Kid
San Quentin
Don't Bet on Blondes
Café Metropole
Ladies of the Jury
The Bat
She Knew All the Answers
You're My Everything
A Manhattan Knight
Mama Loves Papa
Fig Leaves
So This Is Paris
Ex-Lady
Ashes of Vengeance
Clive of India
The Good Bad-Man
Beau Brummel
Over My Dead Body
Dancing in the Dark
I'll Take Romance
The Garden of Eden
Fight for Your Lady
Ready, Willing and Able
One New York Night
He Stayed for Breakfast
Olsen’s Big Moment
The Popular Sin
Love Before Breakfast
Snowed Under
Colleen
Home, Sweet Home
Stars Over Broadway
The Bright Shawl
China Clipper
If I Were Single
Lilies of the Field
Grounds for Divorce
The She-Devil
Darkened Rooms
Time, the Comedian
The Extra Girl
Altars of Desire
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