Highest rated movie: The Big Parade (1925)
Lowest rated movie: Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
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Movies starring George Beranger have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
The Big Parade - released in 1925 - is George Beranger's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 47 reviews.
The lowest rated film from George Beranger is Ready, Willing and Able - released in 1937 - with a score of 43% based on 1 reviews.
George Beranger (27 March 1893 – 8 March 1973), also known as André Beranger, what is that to the 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 Andre 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 neighboring 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.
George Beranger has acted in films with Milton Kibbee, Lillian Gish, Addison Richards and Donald Crisp.
George Beranger has worked with these film directors: D.W. Griffith, Michael Curtiz, Edmund Goulding and King Vidor.
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