George Brent
91 movies · 6 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 15, 1904
- Died
- May 26, 1979 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland
- Also known as
- George Brendan Nolan · George B. Nolan · George Nolan · George Patrick Nolan
Biography
George Brent (born George Brendan Nolan; 15 March 1904 – 26 May 1979) was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor.
Brent was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway in 1904 to John J. and Mary (née McGuinness) Nolan. His mother was a native of Clonfad, Moore, County Roscommon.
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Brent made his first film, Under Suspicion, in 1930. Over the next two years, he appeared in a number of minor films produced by Universal Studios and Fox, before being signed to contract by Warner Bros. in 1932. He remained at Warner Bros. for the next 20 years, carving out a successful career as a top-flight leading man during the late 1930s and 1940s.
Highly regarded by Bette Davis, he became her most frequent male co-star, appearing with her in 13 films, including Front Page Woman (1935), Special Agent (1935), The Golden Arrow (1936), Jezebel (1938), The Old Maid (1939), Dark Victory (1939), and The Great Lie (1941). Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street (1933), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934), Ginger Rogers in In Person (1935), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary (1936), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest (1934) and The Rains Came (1939), Merle Oberon in 'Til We Meet Again (1940), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three (1941), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan (1945), Barbara Stanwyck in So Big! (1932), The Purchase Price (1932), Baby Face (1933), The Gay Sisters (1942), and My Reputation (1946), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase (1946), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back (1946), and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl (1947).
Brent drifted into "B" pictures from the late 1940s and retired from film in 1953. He continued to appear on television until 1960, having appeared on the religion anthology series Crossroads. He was cast in the lead in the 1956 television series Wire Service. In 1978, he made one last film, the made-for-television production Born Again.
In 1960, Brent was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars. He received a motion-pictures star located at 1709 Vine Street, and a second star located at 1612 Vine Street for his work in television.
Brent was married five times: Helen Louise Campbell (1925–1927), Ruth Chatterton (1932–1934), Constance Worth (1937), Ann Sheridan (1942–1943), and Janet Michaels (1947–1974). His final marriage to Janet Michaels, a former model and dress designer, lasted 27 years until her death in 1974. They had a son and a daughter.
Brent also carried on a lengthy relationship with his frequent Warner Bros. co-star, actress Bette Davis, who described her last meeting with Brent after many years of estrangement. He was suffering from advanced emphysema, and she expressed great sadness at his ill health and deterioration. George Brent died in 1979 in Solana Beach, California.
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George Brent: movies and TV shows
Acting (97)
- 1978 Born Again
as Judge Gerhard Gesell
- 1960
- 1959
- 1956 Death of a Scoundrel
as Man with Balloon at Party
- 1956
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953 Mexican Manhunt
as David L. 'Dave' Brady
- 1953 Tangier Incident
as Steve Gordon
- 1952 Montana Belle
as Tom Bradfield
- 1952 Man Bait
as John Harman
- 1951 FBI Girl
as Jeff Donley
- 1951
- 1949 Bride for Sale
as Paul Martin
- 1949 The Kid from Cleveland
as Mike Jackson
- 1949 Illegal Entry
as Chief Agent Dan Collins
- 1949 Red Canyon
as Matthew Bostel
- 1948 Luxury Liner
as Captain Jeremy Bradford
- 1948 Angel on the Amazon
as Jim Warburton
- 1947 Christmas Eve
as Michael Brooks
- 1947 Slave Girl
as Matt Claibourne
- 1947 The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Joe Medford
- 1947 Out of the Blue
as Arthur Earthleigh
- 1946 Temptation
as Nigel Armine
- 1946 Lover Come Back
as Bill Williams
- 1946 Tomorrow Is Forever
as Lawrence Hamilton
- 1946 The Spiral Staircase
as Professor Warren
- 1946 My Reputation
as Major Scott Landis
- 1945 The Affairs of Susan
as Roger Berton
- 1944 Experiment Perilous
as Dr. Huntington Bailey
- 1942 Silver Queen
as James Kincaid
- 1942 You Can't Escape Forever
as Steve Mitchell
- 1942 The Gay Sisters
as Charles Barclay
- 1942 In This Our Life
as Craig Fleming
- 1942 Twin Beds
as Mike Abbott
- 1941 International Lady
as Tim Hanley
- 1941 They Dare Not Love
as Prince Kurt von Rotenberg
- 1941 The Great Lie
as Peter 'Pete' Van Allen
- 1941 Honeymoon for Three
as Kenneth Bixby
- 1940 South of Suez
as John Gamble
- 1940 The Man Who Talked Too Much
as Stephen Forbes
- 1940 'Til We Meet Again
as Dan Hardesty
- 1940 Adventure in Diamonds
as Capt. Stephen Dennett
- 1940 The Fighting 69th
as Wild Bill Donovan
- 1939 The Rains Came
as Tom Ransome
- 1939 The Old Maid
as Clem Spender
- 1939 Land of Liberty
as Buck Cantrell (edited from 'Jezebel')
- 1939 Dark Victory
as Dr. Frederick Steele
- 1939 Wings of the Navy
as Cass Harrington
- 1938 Breakdowns of 1938
as Buck Cantrell (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1938 Secrets of an Actress
as Richard 'Dick' Orr
- 1938 Racket Busters
as Denny Jordan
- 1938 Out Where the Stars Begin
as Jared Whitney (archive footage)
- 1938 Jezebel
as Buck Cantrell
- 1938 Gold Is Where You Find It
as Jared Whitney
- 1937 Submarine D-1
as Lt. Commander Dan Matthews
- 1937 The Go-Getter
as Bill Austin
- 1937 Mountain Justice
as Paul Cameron
- 1937 God's Country and the Woman
as Steve Russett
- 1936 More Than a Secretary
as Fred Gilbert
- 1936 Give Me Your Heart
as James 'Jim' Baker
- 1936 The Golden Arrow
as Johnny Jones
- 1936 The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as Matt Logan
- 1936 Snowed Under
as Alan Tanner
- 1935 In Person
as Emory Muir
- 1935 The Goose and the Gander
as Bob McNear
- 1935 Special Agent
as Bill Bradford
- 1935 Front Page Woman
as Curt Devlin
- 1935 Stranded
as Mack Hale
- 1935 Living on Velvet
as Terry Parker
- 1935 The Right to Live
as Colin Trent
- 1934 The Painted Veil
as Jack Townsend
- 1934 Desirable
as McAllister
- 1934 Housewife
as William H. Reynolds
- 1934 Stamboul Quest
as Douglas Beall
- 1933 From Headquarters
as Lt. Jim Stevens
- 1933 Female
as Jim Thorne
- 1933 Baby Face
as Courtland Trenholm
- 1933 Lilly Turner
as Bob Chandler
- 1933 The Keyhole
as Neil Davis
- 1933 42nd Street
as Pat Denning
- 1933 Luxury Liner
as Dr. Karl Bernhard
- 1932 They Call It Sin
as Dr. Tony Travers
- 1932 The Crash
as Geoffrey Gault
- 1932 The Purchase Price
as Jim Gilson
- 1932 Week-End Marriage
as Peter Acton
- 1932 Miss Pinkerton
as Police Inspector Patten
- 1932 The Rich Are Always with Us
as Julian Tierney
- 1932 So Big!
as Adult Roelf Pool
- 1931 The Lightning Warrior
as Alan Scott
- 1931 Homicide Squad
as Jimmy
- 1931 Ex-Bad Boy
as Donald Swift
- 1931 Charlie Chan Carries On
as Capt. Ronald Keane
- 1931 Fair Warning
as Les Haines
- 1931 Once a Sinner
as James Brent
- 1930 Under Suspicion
as Inspector Turner
- 1925 The Iron Horse
as Worker (uncredited)
Talk shows and appearances (12)
- 2006
- 1994
- 1994 The World of Hammer
1 episode
- 1983
- 1944
- 1942
- 1940
- 1938
- 1937
- 1936
- 1935
- 1935