Clive Brook

Clive Brook

Clive Brook (Clifford Brook) (1887-1974). b. London The son of an opera singer, Brook was educated at Dulwich College. After working as a writer and violinist, he served with distinction in the First World War: that effortless reference to military service in Shanghai Express was based on Vimy Ridge. After the war, he became an actor, onstage, but principally in the British cinema; Trent's Last Case (20, Richard Garrick); The Loudwater Mystery (21, Norman MacDonald); Daniel Derttnda (21, Walter Rawden); Sonia (21, Denison Clift); Shirley (22, A. V. Bramble); Married to a Woman (22, H. B. Parkinson); Debt of Honor (22, Maurice Elvey); Through Fire and Water (23, Thomas Bentley); Royal Oak (23, Elvey); Woman to Woman (23, Graham Cutt's): The White Shadow (24, Cutts); and The Passionate Adventure (24, Cutts). He then went to America under contract to Thomas Ince: Christine of the Hungry Heart (24, George Archainbaud); The Mirage (24, Archainbaud); Compromise (25, Alan Crosland); Enticement (25, Archainbaud); Seven Sinners (25, Lewis Milestone); and For Alimony Only (26, William De Mille), Thereafter he worked generally for Paramount: You Never Know Women (26, William Wellman); Barbed Wire (27, Rowland V. Lee); The Devil Dancer (27, Fred Niblo); French Dressing (27, Allan Dwan); opposite Clara Bow in Hula (27, Victor Fleming); as "Rolls Royce" in Underworld (27, Josef von Sternberg); The Perfect Crime (28, Bert Glennon); The Yellow Lily (28, Alexander Korda); A Dangerous Woman (29, Lee); The Ftmr Feathers (29, Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack); Anybody's Woman (30, Dorothy Arzner), with Ruth Chatterton; Slightly Scarlet (30, Louis Gasnier); Sweethearts and Wives (30, Clarence Badger);