Clive Brook

CLIVE BROOK d1974. British film actor. After making his first screen appearance in 1920, he emerged as a leading British actor in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States, he became one of the major stars for Paramount Pictures during the late silent era. In 1928–29, he successfully made the transition to sound and continued to be featured in many of Hollywoods most prestigious films including ; Paramount on Parade (1930) / Shanghai Express (1932) alongside Marlene Dietrich and three Sherlock Holmes films. In the mid-1930s he returned to Britain where he appeared regularly in leading film roles for a further decade. He died aged 87 in 1974.