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* Langman, Larry. ''Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking''. McFarland, 2000. |
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*Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. . ''Film Directors: A Guide to their American Films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974. |
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![]() Lili Damita, Charles Brabin, and Merritt B. Gerstad on the set of The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) Note the cleavage of the French actress, which later would not be allowed, under the Motion Picture Production Code | |
Born | Liverpool, England | April 17, 1882
Died | November 3, 1957 Santa Monica, California, U.S. | (aged 75)
Years active | 1909-1934 |
Spouse(s) |
Susan Jane Mosher
(m. 1913; div. 1920) |
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Charles J. Brabin (April 17, 1882 – November 3, 1957) was a British-American film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Liverpool, England, he was educated at St. Francis Xavier College. Brabin sailed to New York City in the early 1900s and, while holding down odd jobs there, he tried his hand as a stage actor. He joined the Edison Manufacturing Company around 1908, first acting, later writing and directing. He was active during the silent era, then pursued a short-lived career in talkies. His last film was A Wicked Woman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934.
Brabin married his first wife socialite Susan "Susette" Jane Mosher, a silent movie actress and daughter of Edwin Howard Mosher and Jenny Slater Mosher of New York City. They wed December 14, 1913, at Bedford Congregational Church in the Bronx, shortly after Brabin returned from a trip to England and Europe. Brabin's best friend, screen actor Marc MacDermott, served as best man.[1] Charles and Susan Brabin remained married for seven years.
Brabin later wed silent-film "vamp" star Theda Bara July 2, 1921, remaining married to her until her death from abdominal cancer on April 7, 1955.
Partial filmography
- A Soldier's Duty (1912)
- What Happened to Mary (1912, 12-episode serial)
- An Unsullied Shield (1913)
- The Man Who Disappeared (serial, 1914)
- The Raven (1915)
- The Price of Fame (1916)
- That Sort (1916)
- The Adopted Son (1917)
- Red, White and Blue Blood (1917)
- The Sixteenth Wife (1917)
- His Bonded Wife (1918)
- The Poor Rich Man (1918)
- Breakers Ahead (1918)
- Social Quicksands (1918)
- A Pair of Cupids (1918)
- Buchanan's Wife (1918)
- Kathleen Mavourneen (1919)
- La Belle Russe (1919)
- While New York Sleeps (1920)
- Blind Wives (1920)
- Footfalls (1921)
- The Lights of New York (1922)
- Six Days (1923)
- Driven (1923)
- So Big (1924)
- Stella Maris (1925)
- Ben-Hur (1925, uncredited)
- Mismates (1926)
- Twinkletoes (1926)
- Framed (1927)
- Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927)
- The Valley of the Giants (1927)
- Burning Daylight (1928)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
- The Ship from Shanghai (1929)
- Call of the Flesh (1930)
- The Great Meadow (1931)
- Sporting Blood (1931)
- The Beast of the City (1932)
- The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
- Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
- Stage Mother (1933)
- A Wicked Woman (1934)
Archive
Outtakes from Brabin's 1925 version of Stella Maris survive and were preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.[2]
References
- ^ "The Moving Picture World," Volume 18, Page 1528, Issues 8-13
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.
Bibliography
- Langman, Larry. Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. McFarland, 2000.
- Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. . Film Directors: A Guide to their American Films. Scarecrow Press, 1974.
External links
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- American film directors
- American male screenwriters
- British film directors
- British male screenwriters
- English emigrants to the United States
- 1882 births
- 1957 deaths
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- People from Liverpool
- American screenwriter stubs