Charles Brabin
Charles Brabin was a British-American film director.
Biography
Born in Liverpool, England, he was educated at St. Francis Xavier College. Brabin sailed to New York City in the early 1900s and, while holding down odd jobs there, he tried his hand as a stage actor. He joined the Edison Manufacturing Company around 1908, first acting, later writing and directing. He was active during the silent era, then pursued a short-lived career in talkies. His last film was A Wicked Woman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934.Brabin married, firstly, to socialite Suzan Jeanette Mosher, daughter of Edwin Howard Mosher and Jennie Slater Mosher, of New York City. They married on December 14, 1913, at Bedford Congregational Church in The Bronx, New York, shortly after Brabin returned from a trip to England and Europe. Brabin's best friend, screen actor Marc McDermott, served as best man. Charles and Suzan Brabin remained married for seven years.
Brabin later wed silent-film "vamp" star Theda Bara July 2, 1921, remaining married to her until her death from abdominal cancer on April 7, 1955.
Partial filmography
The following are some of Brabin's films.A Soldier's Duty What Happened to Mary An Unsullied Shield The Man Who Disappeared The Raven The Price of Fame That Sort The Adopted Son Red, White and Blue Blood The Sixteenth Wife Babette Mary Jane's Pa His Bonded Wife The Poor Rich Man Breakers Ahead Social Quicksands A Pair of Cupids Buchanan's Wife Kathleen Mavourneen La Belle Russe Thou Shalt Not While New York Sleeps Blind Wives Footfalls The Lights of New York The Broadway Peacock Six Days Driven So Big Stella Maris Ben-Hur Mismates Twinkletoes Framed Hard-Boiled Haggerty The Valley of the Giants Burning Daylight The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Ship from Shanghai Call of the Flesh The Great Meadow Sporting Blood The Beast of the City The Mask of Fu Manchu Rasputin and the Empress Stage Mother- ''A Wicked Woman''