Born in London, England to Charlotte Mary and George Alfred Brook. He was educated privately. Stage experience included: "Oliver Twist", "Voysey Inheritence", "If I were King", "Importance of Being Ernest", 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.
Father of actress Faith Brook and actor Lyndon Brook
In their 1975 career article on the star, "Films in Review reported that at the height of his popularity, Brook received an average 12,000 fan letters per month and a salary of $5000 per week.
The son of an opera singer, violinist and writer.
On stage from 1918. In American films from 1924 to 1935; in British films from 1935 to 1943, subsequently returning to the theatre.
Served in the Artists Rifles during the First World War. Prior to that worked in insurance and journalism.
Had star billing in Paramounts first all-talkie, Interference , along with William Powell and Evelyn Brent.
Enlisted in the British army in September, 1914, as a private. Left the service at the end of World War 1, as a major.
Brook 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 grew. For a while Brook slept with a revolver under his pillow, and both his children were taken to school each day by a private policeman their family shared with Ann Harding.
Adolph Zukor once told him that he always thought of Brook as the "Rock of Gibraltar".
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.
