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Brabin, Charles (1882-1957)Other forms
Liverpool (Inglaterra, Reino Unido) 1882-04-17 - California (Estados Unidos) 1957-11-03
Charles Brabin was an American film director, scriptwriter and actor. Brabin was born in Liverpool but, at the beginning of the 20th century, he moved to New York to devote himself to acting. This way, he joined the theatre company Edison Company, in which he would make scripts and direct theatre plays. He began to make short films for silent cinema in 1911 and kept shooting films. His last one was "A Wicked Woman" (1934), produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Among his most popular films are: "The Mask of Fu Manchu" (1932), "The Beast of the City" (1932) and Sporting Blood (1931).