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Charles Brabin
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Brabin in 1923
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| Born | April 17, 1882 Liverpool, England
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| Died | November 3, 1957 (aged 75) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
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| 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 (born April 17, 1882 – died November 3, 1957) was a famous film director from both Britain and America. He was known for his work in the early days of movies.
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About Charles Brabin's Life
Charles Brabin was born in Liverpool, England. He went to school at St. Francis Xavier College. In the early 1900s, he sailed to New York City in the United States. There, he worked different jobs and also tried acting on stage.
Around 1908, Charles Brabin joined the Edison Manufacturing Company. This was a very important company in the early film industry. He started as an actor, then began writing movie scripts, and later became a director.
Brabin's Career in Film
Charles Brabin was very active during the silent film era. This was a time when movies had no spoken words, only music and sometimes text on screen. He then worked for a short time on "talkies," which were the first movies with sound. His last movie was called A Wicked Woman, which he made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934.
Charles Brabin's Marriages
Charles Brabin married his first wife, Suzan "Susette" Jeanette Mosher, in 1913. She was from a well-known family in New York City. They were married for seven years.
Later, in 1921, Brabin married a famous silent-film actress named Theda Bara. She was known for playing "vamp" characters, who were mysterious and charming women. They stayed married until her death in 1955.
Some of Charles Brabin's Films
Here are some of the movies Charles Brabin directed:
- A Soldier's Duty (1912)
- What Happened to Mary (1912, a 12-episode series)
- An Unsullied Shield (1913)
- The Man Who Disappeared (series, 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, he helped without being named)
- 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)
Preserving Film History
Some parts of Brabin's 1925 movie Stella Maris that were not used in the final film (called "outtakes") still exist today. The Academy Film Archive worked to save these film pieces in 2016. This helps us learn more about how movies were made in the past.
See also
In Spanish: Charles Brabin para niños
