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Brian Aherne and Joan Crawford in I Live My Life (1935)

Brian Aherne and Elissa Landi in Underground (1928)

Brian Aherne and Norah Baring in Underground (1928)

Brian Aherne and Cyril McLaglen in Underground (1928)

Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain (1934)

Brian Aherne, Ann Harding, and Paul Lukas in The Fountain (1934)

Brian Aherne, Leonora Corbett, and Victoria Hopper in The Constant Nymph (1933)

Brian Aherne and Madge Evans in What Every Woman Knows (1934)

Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, and Donald Crisp in Juarez (1939)

Brian Aherne, Richard Alexander, Frank Hagney, Lumsden Hare, and George Zucco in Captain Fury (1939)

Sandra Dee, Brian Aherne, James Farentino, and Rosalind Russell in Rosie! (1967)

Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll, and Mary Jerrold in The W Plan (1930)

Brian Aherne and Claudette Colbert in Skylark (1941)

Brian Aherne, Claudette Colbert, and Ray Milland in Skylark (1941)

Brian Aherne, Frank Shields Sr., and Hilda Vaughn in I Live My Life (1935)

Olivia de Havilland and Brian Aherne in The Great Garrick (1937)

Brian Aherne and Fritz Leiber in The Great Garrick (1937)

Brian Aherne, Donald Crisp, Dudley Digges, Helen Hayes, Janet Murdoch, and David Torrence in What Every Woman Knows (1934)

Marlene Dietrich and Brian Aherne in The Song of Songs (1933)

Brian Aherne and Helen Hayes in What Every Woman Knows (1934)

Brian Aherne was an Oscar-nominated Anglo-American stage and screen actor who was one of the top cinema character actors in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Born on May 2, 1902, in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England, Aherne performed as an actor as a child. At age 18, he made his debut as an adult with the company that would evolve into the world-famous Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Three years later, he made his debut in London's West End, the English equivalent of Broadway. After his experience in Birmingham, Aherne studied architecture, but a life as an actor was too strong to resist, so he returned to the theater in 1923. For the next eight years, he toured the provinces and appeared in the West End in various productions. In 1931, he made his Broadway debut playing Robert Browning in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." He alternated between the New York and London stage in the early 1930s. Aherne made his movie debut in 1924, and in the mid-1930s, he moved to Hollywood. In 1940, he was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for Juarez (1939) for playing the Emperor Maximilian. Brian Aherne published his autobiography in 1969, and 10 years later, he published a biography of his friend George Sanders, entitled "A Dreadful Man." He died at age 83 of heart failure on February 10, 1986, in Venice, Florida.

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