Acting

George Beranger

Born March 27, 1893 · Enmore, New South Wales, Australia

Died March 8, 1973 · aged 79

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Acc…

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation · 1915

The Birth of a Nation

MovieDramaHistory

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages · 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

MovieDramaHistory

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead · 1936

The Walking Dead

MovieCrimeHorror

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley · 1947

Nightmare Alley

MovieDramaThriller

A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

The Fan

The Fan · 1949

MovieComedyDrama

Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.

Café Metropole

Café Metropole · 1937

Café Metropole

MovieComedyDrama

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent · 1934

MovieDramaComedy

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

The Big Parade

The Big Parade · 1925

MovieRomanceWar

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation · 1915

The Birth of a Nation

MovieDramaHistory

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Wade Cameron

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages · 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

MovieDramaHistory

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Second Priest of Bel (uncredited)

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead · 1936

The Walking Dead

MovieCrimeHorror

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Nolan's Butler (uncredited)

Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley · 1947

Nightmare Alley

MovieDramaThriller

A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

The Geek (uncredited)

The Fan

The Fan · 1949

MovieComedyDrama

Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.

Alphonse - Philippe's Assistant (uncredited)

Café Metropole

Café Metropole · 1937

Café Metropole

MovieComedyDrama

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

Hat Clerk (as Andre Beranger)

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent · 1934

MovieDramaComedy

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Steamship Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

The Big Parade

The Big Parade · 1925

MovieRomanceWar

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

Patriotic Letter Reader

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing in the Dark · 1949

Dancing in the Dark

MovieComedyRomance

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Waiter

Love Before Breakfast

Love Before Breakfast · 1936

Love Before Breakfast

MovieComedyRomance

Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.

Charles (uncredited)

Road House

Road House · 1948

MovieThrillerDrama

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Lefty

Saratoga Trunk

Saratoga Trunk · 1945

MovieDramaRomance

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.

Leon (uncredited)

Ready, Willing and Able

Ready, Willing and Able · 1937

Ready, Willing and Able

MovieRomanceComedy

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

Tenant

San Quentin

San Quentin · 1937

MovieActionDrama

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.

Lorenz Review Headwaiter

Our Wife

Our Wife · 1941

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.

Waiter (uncredited)

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl · 1919

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

MovieDramaRomance

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

The Spying One

Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field · 1930

Lilies of the Field

MovieDramaRomance

Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.

Barber

So This Is Paris

So This Is Paris · 1926

So This Is Paris

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.

M. Maurice Lalle, Georgette's Husband (as André Beranger)

Clive of India

Clive of India · 1935

MovieActionAdventure

Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.

Mr. St. Aubin

The Eagle of the Sea

The Eagle of the Sea · 1926

The Eagle of the Sea

Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.

John Jarvis

Olsen’s Big Moment

Olsen’s Big Moment · 1933

Olsen’s Big Moment

Gangsters, gold-digging dames, and other assorted characters nettle an overworked custodian in this odd farce.

Partygoer (Uncredited)

Dangerous

Dangerous · 1935

MovieDramaRomance

Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.

Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots · 1936

Bullets or Ballots

MovieCrimeDrama

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Waiter (uncredited)

If I Were Single

If I Were Single · 1927

If I Were Single

MovieComedyRomance

Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a light flirtation with a light-in-the-slippers specimen named Claude.

Claude (as André Beranger)