Herbert Brenon

Directing

Herbert Brenon

Born 1880-01-13 · Dublin, Ireland

Irish filmmaker.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Yellow Sands poster
NR

Village romance and gossip collide amongst the West Country fisherfolk of Yellow Sands, as the Varwell family gathers to celebrate the birthday of their aging matriarch, Jennifer. Apart from her Communist nephew, faithful companion and sozzled brother, everyone pays their homage with one eye towards shoring up their expected inheritances - but Jennifer may have her own ideas when she finally makes out her will.

Yellow Sands

1938

Laugh, Clown, Laugh poster
7.4

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

1928

Laugh, Clown, Laugh poster
7.4

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

1928

Ivanhoe poster
4.7

Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised, discovers that his beloved Lady Rowena (played by Evelyn Hope) has remained faithful, two weary travelers, Isaac of York (played by Herbert Brenon) and his pretty daughter Rebecca (played by Leah Baird), are admitted to Sir Cedric's castle, but after the knights learn that Isaac has money they abduct the visitors to the Norman stronghold of Torquilstone Castle.

Ivanhoe

1913

The Mysterious Princess poster
9.0

A silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon

The Mysterious Princess

1920

The Mysterious Princess poster
9.0

A silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon

The Mysterious Princess

1920

Beatrice poster
9.0

It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry.

Beatrice

1919

The Eternal Sin poster
NR

Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is killed by five conspirators, the fathers of Gennaro's dearest friends, Lucretia tortures the old men to death. Later, Gennaro and his companions journey to Lucretia's domain, and she sees her son for the first time. The Duke, who believes him to be her lover, poisons him, but Lucretia administers the antidote in time and saves his life. Then she schemes to poison her sons' five friends for their fathers' mistake.

The Eternal Sin

1917

The Eternal Sin poster
NR

Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is killed by five conspirators, the fathers of Gennaro's dearest friends, Lucretia tortures the old men to death. Later, Gennaro and his companions journey to Lucretia's domain, and she sees her son for the first time. The Duke, who believes him to be her lover, poisons him, but Lucretia administers the antidote in time and saves his life. Then she schemes to poison her sons' five friends for their fathers' mistake.

The Eternal Sin

1917

The Marble Heart poster
1.0

Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, becomes the adopted daughter of her aunt, Madame Roger, keeper of a haberdashery shop in one of the smaller villages in southern France. She grows up with Camille, Madame Roger's son, a sickly, sexless creature, whom she ultimately marries in deference to her aunt's wishes.

The Marble Heart

1916

Whom the Gods Destroy poster
NR

A tale set during the 1916 Irish Easter Rebellion against the British.

Whom the Gods Destroy

1916

Sin poster
NR

Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.

Sin

1915

Sin poster
NR

Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.

Sin

1915

No artwork available
8.0

Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates. The sailor, Bill, initially struggles to remember the location of the ruins, but eventually discovers a lost city and civilization. The professors and sailor then find themselves fighting for their lives against pirates to escape the island alive.

The Live Wire

1938

Spring Handicap poster
7.5

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.

Spring Handicap

1937

No artwork available
NR

A young woman who disguises herself as a man to go gold prospecting after her father and brother forbid her from joining them.

Over the Hills

1911

The Dominant Sex poster
8.0

A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!

The Dominant Sex

1937

The Telephone Girl poster
8.0

Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake.

The Telephone Girl

1927

Kreutzer Sonata poster
2.7

Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).

Kreutzer Sonata

1915

Kreutzer Sonata poster
2.7

Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).

Kreutzer Sonata

1915

Absinthe poster
NR

A Parisian artist becomes addicted to the liquor absinthe and sinks to robbery and murder.

Absinthe

1914

The Soul of Broadway poster
1.0

Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William Craig, who becomes a thief in order to shower luxuries upon her. He is sentenced to prison and emerges five years later as a sad-faced, gray-haired man, entirely cured of his mad passion for La Valencia. But she sees him and her old passion is stirred, meaning nothing to her that since his release from prison, he has fallen in love and married a good woman who knows nothing of his past. When William is not swayed by her fascinations, Grace threatens to expose his past life. A lost film.

The Soul of Broadway

1915

The Rustle of Silk poster
10.0

Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and married, while she is merely a working class maiden. But when she is given a maid's position in his household, it brings her that much closer to her idol. She puts on a fancy gown and heads to the Ritz in hopes of getting a formal introduction. After being fired from the household, she follows Fallaray to his country home and nurses him when he falls ill. Lord Fallaray's wife Lady Feo doesn't love him and is having an affair with Paul Chalfont. When it looks like he will be faced with scandal, Fallaray contemplates giving up politics and marrying Lola.

The Rustle of Silk

1923

God Gave Me Twenty Cents poster
9.0

The story concerns the misadventures of sailor Steve Doren, who tries his best to support his wife Mary on his piddling income. But like seafaring men everywhere, Steve is constitutionally unreliable, especially when hip-swinging temptress Cassie Lang sashays into view.

God Gave Me Twenty Cents

1926