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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.
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Filmography
all 110
Movies 110
Director 4
You're My Everything (1949)
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)
I'll Take Romance (1937)
Hollywood Round-Up (1937)
Fight for Your Lady (1937)
San Quentin (1937)
Café Metropole (1937)
King of Hockey (1936)
Walking on Air (1936)
China Clipper (1936)
Hot Money (1936)
The Song of a Nation (1936)
The Big Noise (1936)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Times Square Playboy (1936)
The Singing Kid (1936)
Snowed Under (1936)
Colleen (1936)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
The Walking Dead (1936)
King of the Islands (1936)
Stars Over Broadway (1935)
Ship Cafe (1935)
Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
The Flame Within (1935)
One New York Night (1935)
Clive of India (1935)
The Payoff (1935)
Mama Loves Papa (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
Ladies of the Jury (1932)
Surrender (1931)
The Age for Love (1931)
Darkened Rooms (1929)
Glad Rag Doll (1929)
Strange Cargo (1929)
Stark Mad (1929)
Beware of Bachelors (1928)
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
The Garden of Eden (1928)
The Notorious Lady (1927)
Altars of Desire (1927)
Paradise for Two (1927)
The Popular Sin (1926)
The Eagle of the Sea (1926)
Fig Leaves (1926)
So This Is Paris (1926)
Miss Brewster's Millions (1926)
The Bat (1926)
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)
Hot Cakes for Two (1926)
A Woman's Faith (1925)
Are Parents People? (1925)
The Man in Blue (1925)
Western Luck (1924)
Beau Brummel (1924)
Poisoned Paradise (1924)
The Man Life Passed By (1923)
Tiger Rose (1923)
The Extra Girl (1923)
Dulcy (1923)
Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
The Bright Shawl (1923)
Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921)
Number 17 (1921)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
The Spotted Lily (1917)
A Daughter of the Poor (1917)
A Love Sublime (1917)
Those Without Sin (1917)
Mixed Blood (1916)
Manhattan Madness (1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
Pillars of Society (1916)
The Half-Breed (1916)
The Good Bad Man (1916)
Flirting with Fate (1916)
Bred in the Bone (1915)
The Failure (1915)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Baby's Ride (1914)
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
The Adopted Brother (1913)
When Love Forgives (1913)
The Switchtower (1913)
The Well (1913)
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GenderMale
Birthday1893-03-27
Deathday1973-03-08 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceSydney, Australia
CitizenshipsAustralia
Also Known AsGeorge Berringer, André Beranger , George A. Beranger, J.A. Beringer , George Andre, Andred Beranger, George Augustus Beringer, George Alexandre Beranger, André de Beranger, George André de Beranger, George Andre Beranger, Andre Berenger, George A. Berranger, André DeBeranger
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