Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Brandon Hurst (November 30, 1866 – July 15, 1947) was an English stage and film actor. Hurst studied philology in his youth and began performing in theater in the 1880s. He worked in Broadway shows from 1900 until his entry into motion pictures. His most notable stage appearance was Two Women in 1910. He was nearly fifty by the time of his 1915 film debut in Via Wireless. He appeared in 129 other films before his death in 1947. He became well known in th...
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Complete Filmography
My Favorite Brunette
1947
as Butler (uncredited)
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for ...
Sister Kenny
1946
as Mr. Todd (Landlord) (uncredited)
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validi...
The Green Years
1946
as Bookseller
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stan...
Road to Utopia
1946
as Man at Zambini's (uncredited)
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her fath...
The Corn Is Green
1945
as Lewellyn Powell (uncredited)
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believe...
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945
as Simpson
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
House of Frankenstein
1944
as Dr. Geissler (uncredited)
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count...
The Princess and the Pirate
1944
as Mr. Pelly
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, h...
Mrs. Parkington
1944
as Footman (uncredited)
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by m...
Jane Eyre
1943
as Lowood School Trustee
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Cabbie in "Good Neighbor" Number (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Dixie
1943
as Dignified Man in Audience
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music ...
The Constant Nymph
1943
as Minor Role
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own...
The Leopard Man
1943
as Cemetery Gatekeeper (uncredited)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Road to Morocco
1942
as English Announcer (uncredited)
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
The Mad Martindales
1942
as Smythe Butler
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
as Hans, Villager at Council Meeting (uncredited)
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan go...
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
as Mr. Chief Justice John Marshall
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he i...
Road to Happiness
1941
as Swayne
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
as Dr. Lanyon's Butler Briggs (uncredited)
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...
Sign of the Wolf
1941
as Dr. Morton
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
The Howards of Virginia
1940
as Wilton
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the ...
Rhythm on the River
1940
as Bates
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers me...
If I Had My Way
1940
as Hedges
Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, alon...
The Blue Bird
1940
as Footman
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're ...
Stanley and Livingstone
1939
as Sir Henry Forrester
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Afric...
Tell No Tales
1939
as Lovelake's Butler (uncredited)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
The Sun Never Sets
1939
as A Doctor
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompani...
East Side of Heaven
1939
as Butler (uncredited)
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
Suez
1938
as Franz Liszt
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
If I Were King
1938
as Beggar (uncredited)
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash...
Professor Beware
1938
as Charlile - Butler
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po...
Kidnapped
1938
as Doomster
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
The Firefly
1937
as English General (uncredited)
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order fo...
Wee Willie Winkie
1937
as Bagby
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he c...
Maid of Salem
1937
as Tithing Man
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse...
The Plough and the Stars
1936
as Sergeant Tinley
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
The Moon's Our Home
1936
as Babson
A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During t...
Gasoloons
1936
as Sheriff / Motorist
While filling up with gas, a carload of passengers notices that the service station is up for sale. They decide to buy the station and try to run it t...
The Great Impersonation
1935
as Middleton
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders ...
Bonnie Scotland
1935
as Military Policeman (uncredited)
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in ...
While the Patient Slept
1935
as Grondal - the Butler
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
The Woman in Red
1935
as Uncle Emlen Wyatt
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust Long Island family in this horsy-set drama.
The Little Minister
1934
as Anders Strothers
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one o...
Bright Eyes
1934
as Higgins
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for c...
Red Morning
1934
as The Magistrate
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
The House of Rothschild
1934
as Stock Trader
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the busine...
House of Mystery
1934
as Hindu Priest
Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace ...
The Lost Patrol
1934
as Bell
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is kill...
Bombay Mail
1934
as Pundit Garnath Chundra
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
Cavalcade
1933
as Gilbert & Sullivan Actor (uncredited)
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst even...
Rasputin and the Empress
1932
as Staff General (uncredited)
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Sherlock Holmes
1932
as Secretary to Erskine (uncredited)
Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col....
Down To Earth
1932
as Jeffrey, the Butler
Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.
White Zombie
1932
as Silver
In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide t...
The Midnight Lady
1932
as District Attorney
The hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised to believe that her mother is dead, then finds hersel...
Scarface
1932
as Citizens Committee Member (uncredited)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to pr...
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932
as Prefect of Police
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets fail...
Murder at Midnight
1931
as Lawrence
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...
Young as You Feel
1931
as Robbins
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclinatio...
A Connecticut Yankee
1931
as Merlin / Doctor in Mansion
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakenin...
The Right of Way
1930
as Crown Attorney
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds...
The Eyes of the World
1930
as Mr. Edward Taine
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail. The film star...
High Society Blues
1930
as Jowles
After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house ad...
Her Private Life
1929
as Sir Emmett Wildering
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
The Greene Murder Case
1929
as Sproot
Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.
The Wolf of Wall Street
1929
as Sturgess
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances. A lost film, only a nine second...
Interference
1928
as Inspector Haynes
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did no...
The Man Who Laughs
1928
as Barkilphedro
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine ...
Love
1927
as Senator Karenin
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistr...
High School Hero
1927
as Mr. Golden
Pete (Nick Stuart) and Bill (John Darrow) are childhood rivals who continue to feud in high school, especially when they both develop feelings for Ele...
7th Heaven
1927
as Uncle George
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall i...
Annie Laurie
1927
as The Campbell Chieftain
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
The Lady of the Harem
1926
as Beggar
Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, b...
The Amateur Gentleman
1926
as Peterby
Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortine...
Volcano
1926
as André de Chauvalons
Zabette de Chauvalons leaves a convent in Brussels to join her father on the island of Martinique, escorted by Père Bénédict. In St. Pierre she finds ...
The Rainmaker
1926
as Doyle
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he l...
The Shamrock Handicap
1926
as The Procurer of Taxes
Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. ...
Secret Orders
1926
as Butler
At the outbreak of the World War, Janet Graham, a telegrapher, is persuaded by Eddie Delano, a crook masquerading as a salesman, to marry him. She agr...
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
1926
as Matard - Hotel Manager
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and c...
Made for Love
1926
as Pharaoh
A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it ap...
The Enchanted Hill
1926
as Jasper Doak
Lee Purdy, the owner of a ranch on "Enchanted Hill," is subjected to repeated attacks by unknown assailants. He meets Gail Ormsby, the owner of the ne...
Lightnin'
1925
as Everett Hammond
Set in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy follows a female hotel owner's efforts to turn a profi...
The Lady
1925
as St. Aubyns Sr
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has le...
He Who Gets Slapped
1924
as Clown (uncredited)
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown w...
The Silent Watcher
1924
as Reporter Herrold
A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett), so that he will be more presentable candidate. Whe...
The Lover of Camille
1924
as Bertrand
The Lover of Camille was a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont, and starring Monte Blue. The film was based on the Fre...
Cytherea
1924
as Daniel Randon
Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morr...
The Thief of Bagdad
1924
as The Caliph
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
as Jehan
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral ca...
The World's Applause
1923
as James Crane
Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted artist Robert Townsend (Menjou). Robert is married ...
A Dark Lantern
1920
as Colonel Dereham
Although loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true colours,...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920
as Sir George Carewe
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Via Wireless
1915
as Edward Pinckney
Crime drama about the rivalry over a new invention and a nice girl.