Cyrus Townsend Brady
writer
- Born:
- 1861-12-20, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died:
- 1920-01-24, Yonkers, New York, USA
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
Cyrus Townsend Brady traded the pulpit for the backlot, arriving at Vitagraph in 1914 with a clerical collar in his suitcase and a hundred-plus novels already in print. Within months the one-time Episcopal rector was scripting cliff-hanging serials, swashbucklers, and heart-throb romances, flooding the screen with the same restless energy that once filled his parish pews. Across the lot—and later across rival studios—his younger brother Jasper Ewing Brady chased the same titles, turning out stories for Vitagraph and then for Metro while Cyrus kept up a blistering pace. The reel life finally caught up with him in 1920, when he died in Yonkers, leaving behind a shelf of books and a catalogue of films that still flicker in archives today.
