Bryant Haliday
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| Bryant Haliday | |
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 Haliday in The Pojected Man, 1966 |
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| Born | 7 April 1928 Albany, New York |
| Died | 28 July 1996 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-founding Janus Films with his partner Cyrus Harvey.
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 entering Harvard to study law, he left to found the legendary Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, transforming an abandoned church into the American version of England's Old Vic, producing, and acting in many of the productions there.
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 travelling to England to appear in Lindsay Shonteff's Devil Doll (1963) and Curse of Simba (1964). He would later return to England to appear in The Projected Man (1966), and Tower of Evil (1971). 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.
