Brandon Hurst

Brandon Hurst
Hurst in the early 1910s
Born	(1866-08-30)30 August 1866 London, England, UK
Died	15 July 1947(1947-07-15) (aged 80) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Cause of death	arteriosclerosis
Resting place	Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park
Years active	1915–1947
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Brandon Hurst (August 30, 1866 – July 15, 1947) was an English stage and film actor.

Early life

Hurst studied philology, the study of language in written historical sources, in his youth and began performing in theater in the 1880s.

Career

He worked in Broadway shows from 1900 until his entry into motion pictures. His most notable stage appearance was Two Women in 1910, costarring Mrs. Leslie Carter and Robert Warwick.

He was nearly fifty before his film debut in 1915. This was in the film Via Wireless as the character Edward Pinckney. He appeared in 129 other films before his death in 1947. He became well known in the 1920s for many distinguished roles portraying the antagonist. Some of these films such as the taunting Sir George Carew in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), the evil Jehan Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), the cuckold Alexei Karenin opposite Greta Garbo in Love (1927) which was based on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and the jester Balkiphedro in The Man Who Laughs (1928) are regarded as some of the best films of the time.

He appeared in talkies with a minor role. He returned with the more important role of playing the sinister Merlin the Magician in Fox's A Connecticut Yankee (1931).

Partial filmography

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
• A Dark Lantern (1920)
• The World's Applause (1923)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
• He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
• The Lover of Camille (1924)
• The Silent Watcher (1924)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
• Lightnin' (1925)
• Made for Love (1926)
• Paris at Midnight (1926)
• The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
• Volcano! (1926)
• The Amateur Gentleman (1926)
• Annie Laurie (1927)
• Love (1927)
• The Man Who Laughs (1928)
• The Greene Murder Case (1929)
• Her Private Life (1929)
• High Society Blues (1930)
• The Right of Way (1931)
• A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
• Murder at Midnight (1931)
• Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
• White Zombie (1932)
• The Lost Patrol (1934)
• Red Morning (1934)
• Bright Eyes (1934)
• The Woman in Red (1935)
• While the Patient Slept (1935)
• The Great Impersonation (1935)
• Mary of Scotland (1936)
• The Plough and the Stars (1936)
• Maid of Salem (1937)
• Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
• Kidnapped (1938)
• Suez (1938)
• Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
• The Sun Never Sets (1939)
• The Blue Bird (1940)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
• The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
• House of Frankenstein (1944)
• The Green Years (1946) (uncredited)
• Two Guys from Texas (1948)

External links

• Brandon Hurst at IMDb
• Brandon Hurst at the Internet Broadway Database
• Still from The Stronger Sex (1907) with Maude Fealy
• Brandon Hurst at Find a Grave