- Born
- Died
- Birth nameClifford Hardman Brook
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Born in London, England to Charlotte Mary (opera singer) and George Alfred Brook. He was educated privately. Stage experience included: "Oliver Twist", "The Voysey Inheritance", "If I Were King", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Fair and Warmer", "Over Sunday", "Clothes and the Woman", and many others. Screen experience with Graham-Cutts Company in London. He appeared in "Woman to Woman", and others. In 1924 he came to America.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dave Curbow <Curbow@apple.com>
- SpouseMildred Evelyn(1920 - November 17, 1974) (his death, 2 children)
- He and his wife moved back to England permanently in 1936, partly due to threats to kidnap their children. At this time the entire movie colony in Hollywood was alarmed at kidnapping threats, and attempts increased. For a while he slept with a revolver under his pillow, and both his children were taken to school each day by a private guard their family shared with Ann Harding.
- In their 1975 career article on the star, "Films in Review' reported that at the height of his popularity, he received an average 12,000 fan letters per month and a salary of $5000 per week.
- On stage from 1918. In American films from 1924-35; in British films from 1935-43, subsequently returning to the theatre.
- Enlisted in the British army in September 1914 as a private. Left the service at the end of World War I as a major.
- Served in the Artists' Rifles during the First World War. Prior to that worked in insurance and journalism.
- Hollywood is a chain gang and we lose the will to escape. The links of the chain are not forged with cruelties but with luxuries.
- [at age 87] Since I stopped going to doctors and gave up all my pills, I've felt perfectly well.
- [about Marlene Dietrich] She was always such a beautiful simple girl then. She used to cook delicious food and bring it to us each morning on the set. Now she's like a character from one of her films. Seems to be playing Marlene Dietrich.
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