
1893-03-27 ( 132 years old ) in Enmore, New South Wales, Australia
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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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Movies
Dancing in the Dark
1949-12-02
You're My Everything
1949-07-22
Road House
1948-09-22
Nightmare Alley
1947-10-09
Saratoga Trunk
1945-11-21
Over My Dead Body
1942-01-15
Our Wife
1941-08-20
She Knew All the Answers
1941-05-13
He Stayed for Breakfast
1940-08-31
Beauty for the Asking
1939-02-24
I'll Take Romance
1937-11-17
Hollywood Round-Up
1937-11-06
Fight for Your Lady
1937-11-05
San Quentin
1937-05-24
Café Metropole
1937-04-28
Ready, Willing and Able
1937-03-06
King of Hockey
1936-12-19
Walking on Air
1936-09-11
China Clipper
1936-08-11
Hot Money
1936-07-18
The Big Noise
1936-06-22
Bullets or Ballots
1936-06-06
The Singing Kid
1936-04-10
Snowed Under
1936-03-29
Colleen
1936-03-21
Love Before Breakfast
1936-03-09
The Walking Dead
1936-03-01
King of the Islands
1936-02-22
Dangerous
1935-12-25
Stars Over Broadway
1935-11-23
Ship Cafe
1935-11-09
Don't Bet on Blondes
1935-07-13
Once in a Blue Moon
1935-05-10
One New York Night
1935-03-08
Clive of India
1935-01-25
The Payoff
1935-01-09
Mama Loves Papa
1933-07-14
Ex-Lady
1933-05-15
Ladies of the Jury
1932-02-02
Surrender
1931-12-06
The Age for Love
1931-10-17
Annabelle's Affairs
1931-06-14
Three Girls Lost
1931-04-19
The Boudoir Diplomat
1930-12-05
Lilies of the Field
1930-01-05
Darkened Rooms
1929-11-23
Glad Rag Doll
1929-05-04
Strange Cargo
1929-03-31
Stark Mad
1929-02-02
Beware of Bachelors
1928-10-27
Powder My Back
1928-03-10
The Garden of Eden
1928-02-04
If I Were Single
1927-12-17
The Small Bachelor
1927-11-06
Altars of Desire
1927-02-15
Paradise for Two
1927-01-23
The Popular Sin
1926-11-22
The Lady of the Harem
1926-11-01
The Eagle of the Sea
1926-10-17
Fig Leaves
1926-08-22
So This Is Paris
1926-07-31
Miss Brewster's Millions
1926-03-22
The Bat
1926-03-14
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
1926-02-21
Hot Cakes for Two
1926-01-17
Grounds for Divorce
1925-07-27
Are Parents People?
1925-07-14
The Man in Blue
1925-06-21
Confessions of a Queen
1925-03-30
His Hour
1924-09-29
Beau Brummel
1924-03-30
Poisoned Paradise
1924-02-29
The Man Life Passed By
1923-12-24
Tiger Rose
1923-12-09
The Extra Girl
1923-10-28
Dulcy
1923-08-27
Ashes of Vengeance
1923-08-06
The Bright Shawl
1923-04-22
Broken Blossoms
1919-05-13
The Spotted Lily
1917-10-01
A Daughter of the Poor
1917-03-17
A Love Sublime
1917-03-11
Those Without Sin
1917-03-01
Mixed Blood
1916-12-18
Manhattan Madness
1916-10-01
Pillars of Society
1916-08-27
The Half-Breed
1916-07-30
The Good Bad-Man
1916-04-21
The She-Devil
1916-01-06
Flirting with Fate
1916-01-01
Bred in the Bone
1915-10-07
The Birth of a Nation
1915-02-08
The Avenging Conscience
1914-08-02
Home, Sweet Home
1914-05-16
The Adopted Brother
1913-08-29
When Love Forgives
1913-08-02
The Switchtower
1913-06-15
The Well
1913-06-12
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