- Bryant Haliday
Infobox actor
name = Bryant Haliday
caption = Bryant Haliday in "Devil Doll " (1964)
birthdate =7 April 1928
birthplace =Albany, New York ,USA
deathdate =28 July ,1996
deathplace =Paris, France Bryant Haliday (
7 April 1928 -28 July ,1996 ) was an American actor, as well as producer, of film and stage, who was instrumental in providing a showcase for international film titles in the United States by co-foundingJanus Films with his partnerCyrus Harvey Jr .Early Life and Stage Career
Haliday was born into a family of European descent, and spent the first twenty one years of his life in a
Benedictine monastery preparing for the priesthood. After enteringHarvard to study law, he left to found the legendaryBrattle Theatre inCambridge, Massachusetts , transforming an abandoned church into the American version of England'sOld Vic , producing, and acting in many of the productions there. In 1966, Haliday sold the Brattle, while Cyrus Harvey Jr continued to manage the Brattle into the 1970s.Janus Films
Janus Films was founded in 1956 by Haliday and Harvey. Haliday ran the 55th Street Playhouse in New York and used it as a primary location for exhibiting Janus-distributed films, which included the films of
Ingmar Bergman ,Frederico Fellini ,Akira Kurosawa andMichelangelo Antonioni .Horror Films
By the 1960s, Halliday was wealthy enough to look on acting as a hobby, and was able to satisfy his interest in horror films by traveling to England to appear in
Lindsay Shonteff 's "Devil Doll " (1964) and "Curse of Simba " (1964). He would later return to England to appear in "The Projected Man " (1966), and "Tower of Evil " (1971).Later Life and Death
By the mid 1970s, he was semi-retired and living in France, where he spent the last few years of his life producing, and appearing in French television. He died in
Paris in 1996.External links
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