Charles Bryant (actor)

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Bryant and Alla Nazimova in 1912

Charles Bryant (8 January 1879 – 7 August 1948) was a British actor and film director.

Biography

Bryant was born in Hartford, Cheshire on 8 January 1879. He was educated at Ardingly College. He left school at the age of 14 to become a stage actor, and three years later traveled to America to begin working on Broadway, starring in The First Born in 1887.

He claimed to have married Alla Nazimova on December 5, 1912, but the marriage was never performed or consummated.^[1][2]

Bryant starred in A Train of Incidents (1914), and War Brides (1916), which was also the first film his beard wife, Alla Nazimova featured in. Bryant and Nazimova signed with Metro Pictures in 1918 and starred alongside each other in a number of films including Revelation, Out of the Fog, and Billions. In 1918, Nazimova founded Nazimova Productions and it was there that Bryant began directing, with the pair creating a film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in 1923. Byrant and Nazimova's pairing was short lived however. Salomé was ostensibly too far ahead of its time and failed at the box office bankrupting Nazimova Productions. Bryant never worked in film again, instead returning to Broadway. He divorced Nazimova shortly after leaving Hollywood, their marriage apparently having been only one of convenience and no longer necessary.

He died on 7 August 1948 in Mount Kisco, New York at age 69.^[3]

References

1. ^ Dixie Hines and Harry Prescott Hanaford (1914). "Alla Nazimova". Who's who in music and drama. http://books.google.com/books?id=pf0PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA234&dq=Charles+Bryant++actor&hl=en&ei=Fe5kTKStDIOC8gaeyd26CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Bryant%20%20actor&f=false. 
2. ^ Blake Bailey. A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates. http://books.google.com/books?id=JinzHK87Wo4C&pg=PA97&dq=Charles+Bryant++actor&hl=en&ei=6-5kTM_EFYL-8AaPmO3bCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Bryant%20%20actor&f=false. 
3. ^ Eugene Michael Vazzana. "Charles Bryant". Silent film necrology. http://books.google.com/books?id=iqIYAQAAIAAJ&q=Charles+Bryant++actor&dq=Charles+Bryant++actor&hl=en&ei=n-1kTLikDIT48Aa5mbylCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA. 

External links

• Charles Bryant at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Bryant, Charles
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Date of birth	8 January 1879
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Date of death	7 August 1948
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