Charles Bryant

Born: 1879-01-08

From Wikipedia Charles Bryant (8 January 1879 – 7 August 1948) was a British actor and film director. Bryant was born in Hartford, Cheshire on 8 January 1879. He was educated at Ardingly College in Sussex. He left school at the age of 14 to become a stage actor, and three years later travelled to America to begin working on Broadway, starring in The First Born in 1887. Bryant starred in A Train of Incidents (1914), and War Brides (1916), which was also the first film his wife, Alla Nazimova featured in. Bryant and Nazimova signed with Metro Pictures in 1918 and starred alongside each other in a number of films including Revelation, Out of the Fog, and Billions. In 1918, Nazimova founded Nazimova Productions and it was there that Bryant began directing, with the pair creating a film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in 1923. Bryant and Nazimova's pairing was short lived. Salomé was ostensibly too far ahead of its time and failed at the box office bankrupting Nazimova Productions. Bryant never worked in film again, instead returning to Broadway. He divorced Nazimova shortly after leaving Hollywood, their marriage apparently having been only one of convenience and no longer necessary. He claimed to have married Alla Nazimova on 5 December 1912, but the marriage was never performed or consummated. On November 16, 1925, Bryant, 43, surprised the press, Nazimova's fans and Nazimova herself by marrying Marjorie Gilhooley, 23, in Connecticut. When the press uncovered the fact that Charles had listed his current marital status as "single" on his marriage license, the revelation that the marriage between Alla and Charles had been a sham from the beginning embroiled Nazimova in a scandal that damaged her career. Charles and Marjorie divorced in 1936. Bryant had two children with Gilhooley, Charles Bryant Jr. and Sheila Bryant. Charles and Marjorie divorced in 1936.On June 8, 1948, Sheila married the American novelist Richard Yates. Bryant died on 7 August 1948 in Mount Kisco, New York at age 69.


Placeholder

The Heart of a Child

as Lord Kidderminster
Released: 1920-04-11

A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a...

Movie page

Stronger Than Death

as Maj. Tristan Boucicault
Released: 1920-01-11

Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance...

Movie page

The Brat

as MacMillan Forrester
Released: 1919-09-01

An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who...

Movie page

Eye for Eye

as Captain de Cadiere
Released: 1918-12-22

The daughter of an Arab sheik falls in love with a French naval officer, thus breaking the...

Movie page

Out of the Fog

as Philip Blake
Released: 1919-02-09

Faith’s life is shattered when her lover dies. Her brother Job locks her away in a lighthouse,...

Movie page

Billions

as Krakerfeller / Owen Carey
Released: 1920-12-06

Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron...

Movie page

Toys of Fate

as Henry Livingston
Released: 1918-05-12

A gypsy girl whose mother committed suicide after being seduced and abandoned by a rich man...

Movie page

Revelation

as Paul Granville
Released: 1918-02-17

Joline, a cabaret singer in Paris, models for her lover, painter Paul Granville. Paul becomes...

Movie page

War Brides

as Franz
Released: 1916-01-02

Joan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a...

Movie page