Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon was born in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on January 13th, 1880 and is the Irish Film Director. At the age of 78, Herbert Brenon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In his late teens, Brenon served as an office boy for the theatrical agent Joseph Vivian and as a call boy at Daly's Theatre on Broadway. While still in his twenties, and before becoming a film director, he performed in vaudeville and operated a small-town nickelodeon establishment.
Brenon married Helen Violette Oberg in 1904 while they were both working vaudeville circuits. Their son, Cyril, was born in 1906.
At the age of 29, Brenon advanced to screenwriting and film editing for the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), later to become Universal Studios. In 1911 he directed his first film, the one-reeler, All For Her (1912), starring George Ober. Brenon acted in many of the films he directed for IMP, including the studio's first three-reel production Leah the Forsaken (1909), starring Leah Baird.
Brenon took his IMP production unit to Europe in 1913, and made a number of films in England, France and Germany. The most “spectacular” of these was his adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s novel Ivanhoe, starring celebrity aviator Claude Graham-White as Ivanhoe and filmed at Chepstow Castle. The journal Illustrated Films Monthly bestowed fulsome praise on the production, declaring that “Ivanhoe, as a film, will prove epoch-making in the history of cinematography in [Great Britain] and over the whole world.’” Brenon proceeded to continental Europe to film Absinthe (1914) in France and several films in Germany, starring William E. Shay.
Neptune’s Daughter (1914): Brenon’s final and most spectacular film for IMP studios was his 1914 Neptune’s Daughter. This Annette Kellerman vehicle, at seven-reels in length and filmed in Bermuda, established both director and actress among the earliest silent film celebrities. Brenon left IMP In 1914 to create his own short-lived production company, Tiffany Film Corporation.
The following year, Brenon and Annette Kellerman contracted with William Fox’s production company. There, Brenon directed actress Theda Bara in The Two Orphans (1915) and The Kreutzer Sonata (1915). Both Brenon and Bara would have a major impact in elevating the stature of the Fox Company.
A Daughter of the Gods (1915): In the summer of 1915, Brenon and leading lady from their IMP collaborations, Annette Kellerman, travelled to Jamaica to make the “elaborate” and “spectacular” A Daughter of the Gods (1916). Brenon's extravagant expenditures filming the picture led to immense cost overruns, outraging producer William Fox. That, and Brenon's emerging celebrity status among movie critics led Fox to seize the footage and edit it himself, excising Brenon from the screen credits. Film historian Richard Koszarski describes the clash between producer and director.:
After his failed litigation with Fox, Brenon continued to direct films for various studios, then moved to Paramount where he made some of his finest pictures.
