Herbert Brenon
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon
- Born:
- 1880-01-13, Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]
- Died:
- 1958-06-21, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
Dublin greeted Herbert Brenon on 13 January 1880, and from that first cry he seemed destined to conjure moving dreams for the world. Behind the camera he became a master storyteller, guiding silent-era audiences through burning desert outposts in Beau Geste (1926), medieval tournaments in Ivanhoe (1913), and the tender sacrifices of Sorrell and Son (1927). Off-screen, Helen Brenon shared his life’s plot. The final curtain fell on 21 June 1958 in Los Angeles, but the flicker of the tales he shaped still lights screens today.
