Herbert Brenon was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through 1940.
Herbert Brenon, 1916
Brenon and Alla Nazimova with a camera in his studio, 9 August 1916.
Brenon in 1917 reading Rupert Hughes' Empty Pockets
Brenon's mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York
Peter Pan is a 1924 American silent adventure film released by Paramount Pictures, the first film adaptation of the 1904 play by J. M. Barrie. It was directed by Herbert Brenon and starred Betty Bronson as Peter Pan, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook, Mary Brian as Wendy, Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell, Esther Ralston as Mrs. Darling, and Anna May Wong as the Native American princess Tiger Lily. The film was seen by Walt Disney, and inspired him to create his company's 1953 animated adaptation.
Original film poster
Mary Brian as Wendy Darling and Betty Bronson as Peter Pan
Cyril Chadwick and Esther Ralston as Mr. and Mrs. Darling
L-R: Mary Brian, Betty Bronson and Esther Ralston