W. Graham Brown

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Role

Actor

Date of birth

12/31/1869

Date of death

03/11/1937

Place of birth

County Tyrone, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK

W. Graham Brown

Biography

W. Graham Brown born William Graham Browne in Ireland in 1870, highly well-known West End and Broadway theatre star from the 1890's, plays include 'Penelope' at the Lyceum Theatre in 1909 and as 'David Bliss' in Noel Coward's 'Hay Fever' at the Ambassador's Theatre in 1925. handsome dapper who starred in only one silent film role as 'Lord Burlington' in a USA movie 'Mrs. Plum's Pudding' directed by Al Christie and starring his then wife Marie Tempest for the Nestor Film Company in 1915, played mostly supporting roles in few English films, his first played 'Pignolet' in 'The Lady Is Willing' in 1934 directed by Gilbert Miller and starring Leslie Howard, perhaps his best known film and his last as 'Dr. Kurt Broman' in 'Moonlight Sonata' a musical drama in 1937 starring American actor Charles Farrell and the famous pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski.

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