
Acting
Born March 27, 1893 · Enmore, New South Wales, Australia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Beranger (27 March 1893 – 8 March 1973), also known as André Beranger, was an Australian actor and Hollywood and stage director. Beranger began playing Shakespearean roles at the age of sixteen with the Walter Bentley Players. He then emigrated from Australia to California, United States in 1912 and worked in the silent film industry in Hollywood. According to a researcher, he "reinvented himself in Hollywood, claiming French parentage, birth on a French ocean liner off the coast of Australia and a Paris education." Beranger worked under the names George Alexandre Beranger and André de Beranger. By the 1920s, Beranger had become a star, appearing in the movies of Ernst Lubitsch and D. W. Griffith. He also directed ten films between 1914 and 1924. Beranger owned a large Spanish-style home in Laguna Beach, rented a room at the Hollywood Athletic Club and owned an apartment in Paris, France. Beranger eventually appeared in more than 140 films between 1913 and 1950. Beranger's career dissipated following the 1930s Great Depression and the advent of sound film, and his roles in later films were small and often uncredited. He supplemented his income as a draftsman for the Los Angeles City Council. He sold his large properties and moved into a modest cottage beside his house in Laguna Beach. He entered into a "lavender marriage" with a neighbouring widow, but they never shared the same house and he continued his gay lifestyle unabated. Beranger retired in 1952 and lived his later years in seclusion. He was found dead of natural causes in his home on 8 March 1973. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Beranger licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Dancing in the Dark
1949

You're My Everything
1949

The Fan
1949

Road House
1948

Nightmare Alley
1947

Saratoga Trunk
1945

Over My Dead Body
1942

Our Wife
1941

She Knew All the Answers
1941

He Stayed for Breakfast
1940

Beauty for the Asking
1939

I'll Take Romance
1937

Hollywood Round-Up
1937

Fight for Your Lady
1937

San Quentin
1937

Café Metropole
1937

Ready, Willing and Able
1937

King of Hockey
1936

Walking on Air
1936

China Clipper
1936

Hot Money
1936

The Big Noise
1936

Bullets or Ballots
1936

The Singing Kid
1936

Snowed Under
1936

Colleen
1936

Love Before Breakfast
1936

The Walking Dead
1936

King of the Islands
1936

Dangerous
1935