Bryant Haliday

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 Jr. After entering Harvard to study law, Haliday 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. In 1966, Haliday sold the Brattle, while Cyrus Harvey Jr continued to manage the Brattle into the 1970s. 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, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa and Michelangelo Antonioni. 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).


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