Charles Brabin
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Brabin in 1923
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Born | [1] Liverpool, England[1] |
April 17, 1882
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[1] Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park |
Education | St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1909–1934 |
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Charles Brabin (17 April 1882 – 3 November 1957) was a British-American film director.
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.[2]
Brabin married his first wife socialite Suzan "Susette" Jeanette Mosher, the daughter of Edwin Howard Mosher and Jennie 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.[3] Charles and Suzan Brabin remained married for seven years.[4]
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
The following are some of Brabin's films.[1]
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- 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)
- Babette (1917)
- Mary Jane's Pa (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)
- Thou Shalt Not (1919)
- While New York Sleeps (1920)
- Blind Wives (1920)
- Footfalls (1921)
- The Lights of New York (1922)
- The Broadway Peacock (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.[5]
References
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