Cyrus Townsend Brady(1861-1920)
- Writer
Cyrus Brady, an Episcopal minister, was a successful author, with over
100 books to his credit, and went to work for Vitagraph in 1914 as a
screenwriter. He wrote everything from romances to action pictures, and
even took on the serial genre. His brother,
Jasper Ewing Brady, was also a
screenwriter, first for Vitagraph and then for Metro. Cyrus died in
Yonkers, NY, in 1920.