Bryant Haliday
| Bryant Haliday | |
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| Born | 7 April 1928 Albany, New York, USA |
| Died | 28 July 1996 Paris, France |
Bryant Haliday (7 April 1928 - 28 July 1996) was an American actor, as well as producer, of film and stage, who was instrumental in providing a showcase for international film titles in the United States by co-founding Janus Films with his partner Cyrus Harvey Jr.
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[edit] Early Life and Stage Career
After entering Harvard to study law, Haliday left to found the legendary Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, transforming an abandoned church into the American version of England's Old Vic, producing, and acting in many of the productions there. In 1966, Haliday sold the Brattle, while Cyrus Harvey Jr continued to manage the Brattle into the 1970s.
[edit] Janus Films
Janus Films was founded in 1956 by Haliday and Harvey. Haliday ran the 55th Street Playhouse in New York and used it as a primary location for exhibiting Janus-distributed films, which included the films of Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa and Michelangelo Antonioni.
[edit] Horror Films
By the 1960s, Halliday was wealthy enough to look on acting as a hobby, and was able to satisfy his interest in horror films by traveling to England to appear in Lindsay Shonteff's Devil Doll (1964) and Curse of Simba (1964). He would later return to England to appear in The Projected Man (1966), and Tower of Evil (1971). All were produced by his friend and fellow New Yorker Richard Gordon.
[edit] Later Life and Death
By the mid 1970s, he was semi-retired and living in France, where he spent the last few years of his life producing, and appearing in French television. He died in Paris in 1996.
