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.