George Beranger
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.
109 acting credits · 5 directing credits
Acting · 109
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
The Birth of a Nation
1915
Nightmare Alley
1947
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919
Ship Cafe
1935
The Walking Dead
1936
Dangerous
1935
Road House
1948
Ex-Lady
1933
Clive of India
1935
Bullets or Ballots
1936
China Clipper
1936
The Big Parade
1925
Ashes of Vengeance
1923
Saratoga Trunk
1945
Jimmy the Gent
1934
Dancing in the Dark
1949
San Quentin
1937
Beau Brummel
1924
The Avenging Conscience
1914
Three Girls Lost
1931
The Bat
1926
Fight for Your Lady
1937
The Fan
1949
Our Wife
1941
Stark Mad
1929
Ready, Willing and Able
1937
Strange Cargo
1929
The Singing Kid
1936
Home, Sweet Home
1914
The Big Noise
1936
Don't Bet on Blondes
1935
So This Is Paris
1926
Colleen
1936
You're My Everything
1949
The Popular Sin
1926
Hollywood Round-Up
1937
The Good Bad-Man
1916
The Age for Love
1931
Hot Money
1936
Café Metropole
1937
Darkened Rooms
1929
Snowed Under
1936
Over My Dead Body
1942
I'll Take Romance
1937
Glad Rag Doll
1929
The Bright Shawl
1923
King of Hockey
1936
She Knew All the Answers
1941
Surrender
1931
The Leopardess
1923
The Eagle of the Sea
1926
Are Parents People?
1925
Mama Loves Papa
1933
Beauty for the Asking
1939
Walking on Air
1936
Once in a Blue Moon
1935
Confessions of a Queen
1925
Love Before Breakfast
1936
Grounds for Divorce
1925
Manhattan Madness
1916
The Garden of Eden
1928
Dulcy
1923
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940
The Extra Girl
1923
The Lady of the Harem
1926
The Man in Blue
1925
Pillars of Society
1916
Tiger Rose
1923
His Hour
1924
The Payoff
1935
Stars Over Broadway
1935
A Love Sublime
1917
Ladies of the Jury
1932
A Daughter of the Poor
1917
The Half-Breed
1916
The Spotted Lily
1917
King of the Islands
1936
One New York Night
1935
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
1926
Poisoned Paradise
1924
Fig Leaves
1926
The She-Devil
1916
The Well
1913
The Small Bachelor
1927
The Adopted Brother
1913
The Switchtower
1913
Paradise for Two
1927
The Man Life Passed By
1923
Miss Brewster's Millions
1926
Hot Cakes for Two
1926
Annabelle's Affairs
1931
When Love Forgives
1913
Sandy
1918
Flirting with Fate
1916
If I Were Single
1927
Lilies of the Field
1930
A Woman's Faith
1925
Altars of Desire
1927
The Boudoir Diplomat
1930
Beware of Bachelors
1928
Let Katie Do it
1916
Those Without Sin
1917
Bred in the Bone
1915
Mixed Blood
1916
Powder My Back
1928
Olsen’s Big Moment
1933
Beauty and the Bad Man
1925
Time, the Comedian
1925
