| # | Fact |
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| 1 | George Brent appears in and introduces the trailer for the Warner Bros. Picture Ever in My Heart (1933). |
| 2 | His hair was completely gray by the time he started working for Warner Brothers, and he had to dye his hair black. |
| 3 | Last saw his favorite co-star Bette Davis in 1978 when he went to visit her back stage at one of her one-woman shows in San Diego that featured film clips from her vast career. She didn't recognize him at first as he had grown quite old, white haired and unhealthily overweight. He died in May of 1979. |
| 4 | The son of a British officer and IRA guerrilla during the Anglo-Irish War (1919-1922). Both of his parents died when he was 11 and he migrated for a time to America in 1915. He later returned to Ireland and began his career doing bits on the Abbey Theatre stage. |
| 5 | Warner Bros. tested George for the title role in Captain Blood (1935) after Robert Donat turned the role down. Despite his reliable tenure at the studio, he was better known as a ladies' man in tearjerkers than a swashbuckler and newcomer Errol Flynn got the part, becoming an instant star. |
| 6 | As a subversive Irish revolutionary carrier, he managed to elude the British in 1921 when he was smuggled back to America via freighter to Canada. |
| 7 | He played Jane Powell's father in the film Luxury Liner (1948). Powell claims that the two had a crush on each other and that Brent didn't express it until near the end of his life when he proposed marriage to her when he was in his 70's. |
| 8 | Had a tumultuous two-year long affair with Bette Davis, his frequent and most prolific co-star of eleven feature films: So Big! (1932), The Rich Are Always with Us (1932), Housewife (1934), Front Page Woman (1935), Special Agent (1935), The Golden Arrow (1936), Jezebel (1938), Dark Victory (1939), The Old Maid (1939), The Great Lie (1941) and In This Our Life (1942). |
| 9 | He had two children, Barry and Suzanne, with his 4th wife, Janet. |
| 10 | Was to have starred in the film, Death of a Scoundrel (1956), but took ill after a large party scene with many, many extras had been filmed. Rather than an expensive re-shoot, the producers left the scene (with him visible) in the final cut. He was replaced in the lead by George Sanders. |
| 11 | Served on Michael Collins' ASU (Active Service Unit) assassin/hitmen squad (as "George Nolan", his real name), although he could not have been more than 16 or so. |
| 12 | He was a licensed pilot. You can see him landing an airplane in The Great Lie (1941). |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Born Again | 1978 | | Judge Gerhard Gesell |
| The Chevy Mystery Show | 1960 | TV Series | Fred Girard |
| Rawhide | 1959 | TV Series | Jefferson Devereaux |
| Wire Service | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Dean Evans |
| El coyote | 1957 | TV Movie | Colonel Bart Edwards |
| Crossroads | 1956 | TV Series | Father George Ford / Father Raymond |
| Death of a Scoundrel | 1956 | | O'Connell - Party Guest (uncredited) |
| Schlitz Playhouse | 1953-1956 | TV Series | Sam Bentley |
| Celebrity Playhouse | 1956 | TV Series | |
| Science Fiction Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | Sam Gilmore |
| Studio 57 | 1955 | TV Series | Paul Winterton / Army Doctor |
| Stage 7 | 1955 | TV Series | Prof. Michael Balsam |
| Fireside Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | Paul Jarvis |
| Climax! | 1955 | TV Series | |
| The Ford Television Theatre | 1953-1954 | TV Series | John Raleigh / Devlin |
| Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson | 1954 | TV Series | Professor Robert Jenssen |
| The Revlon Mirror Theater | 1953 | TV Series | John Merrill |
| Mexican Manhunt | 1953 | | David L. 'Dave' Brady |
| Tangier Incident | 1953 | | Steve Gordon |
| Montana Belle | 1952 | | Tom Bradfield |
| Man Bait | 1952 | | John Harman |
| FBI Girl | 1951 | | Jeff Donley |
| Bride for Sale | 1949 | | Paul Martin |
| The Kid from Cleveland | 1949 | | Mike Jackson |
| Illegal Entry | 1949 | | Chief Agent Dan Collins |
| Red Canyon | 1949 | | Matthew Bostel |
| Angel on the Amazon | 1948 | | Jim Warburton |
| Luxury Liner | 1948 | | Captain Jeremy Bradford |
| Christmas Eve | 1947 | | Michael Brooks |
| Slave Girl | 1947 | | Matt Claibourne - aka Pierre |
| The Corpse Came C.O.D. | 1947 | | Joe Medford |
| Out of the Blue | 1947 | | Arthur Earthleigh |
| Temptation | 1946 | | Nigel Armine |
| Lover Come Back | 1946 | | William 'Bill' Williams Jr. |
| My Reputation | 1946 | | Major Scott Landis |
| Tomorrow Is Forever | 1946 | | Lawrence Hamilton |
| The Spiral Staircase | 1945 | | Professor Warren |
| The Affairs of Susan | 1945 | | Roger Berton |
| Experiment Perilous | 1944 | | Dr. Huntington Bailey |
| Silver Queen | 1942 | | James Kincaid |
| You Can't Escape Forever | 1942 | | Steve Mitchell |
| The Gay Sisters | 1942 | | Charles Barclay |
| In This Our Life | 1942 | | Craig Fleming |
| Twin Beds | 1942 | | Mike Abbott |
| International Lady | 1941 | | Tim Hanley |
| They Dare Not Love | 1941 | | Prince Kurt von Rotenberg |
| The Great Lie | 1941 | | Peter Van Allen |
| Honeymoon for Three | 1941 | | Kenneth Bixby |
| South of Suez | 1940 | | John Gamble |
| The Man Who Talked Too Much | 1940 | | Stephen M. Forbes |
| 'Til We Meet Again | 1940 | | Dan Hardesty |
| Adventure in Diamonds | 1940 | | Capt. Stephen Dennett |
| The Fighting 69th | 1940 | | 'Wild Bill' Donovan |
| The Rains Came | 1939 | | Tom Ransome |
| The Old Maid | 1939 | | Clem Spender |
| Dark Victory | 1939 | | Dr. Frederick Steele |
| Wings of the Navy | 1939 | | Cass Harrington |
| Swingtime in the Movies | 1938 | Short | George Brent (uncredited) |
| Secrets of an Actress | 1938 | | Dick Orr |
| Racket Busters | 1938 | | Denny Jordan |
| Jezebel | 1938 | | Buck Cantrell |
| Gold Is Where You Find It | 1938 | | Jared Whitney |
| Submarine D-1 | 1937 | | Lt. Commander Matthews |
| The Go Getter | 1937 | | Bill Austin |
| Mountain Justice | 1937 | | Paul Cameron |
| God's Country and the Woman | 1937 | | Steve Russett |
| More Than a Secretary | 1936 | | Fred Gilbert |
| Give Me Your Heart | 1936 | | Jim Baker |
| The Golden Arrow | 1936 | | Johnny Jones |
| The Case Against Mrs. Ames | 1936 | | Matt Logan |
| Snowed Under | 1936 | | Alan Tanner |
| In Person | 1935 | | Emory Muir |
| The Goose and the Gander | 1935 | | Bob McNear |
| Special Agent | 1935 | | Bill Bradford |
| Front Page Woman | 1935 | | Curt Devlin |
| Stranded | 1935 | | Mack Hale |
| Living on Velvet | 1935 | | Terrence Clarence 'Terry' Parker |
| The Right to Live | 1935 | | Colin Trent |
| The Painted Veil | 1934 | | Jack Townsend |
| Desirable | 1934 | | McAllister |
| Housewife | 1934 | | William Reynolds |
| Stamboul Quest | 1934 | | Douglas Beall |
| From Headquarters | 1933 | | Lieut. J. Stevens |
| Female | 1933 | | Jim Thorne |
| Baby Face | 1933 | | Trenholm |
| Lilly Turner | 1933 | | Bob Chandler |
| The Keyhole | 1933 | | Neil |
| 42nd Street | 1933 | | Pat Denning |
| Luxury Liner | 1933 | | Dr. Thomas Bernard |
| They Call It Sin | 1932 | | Dr. Travers |
| The Crash | 1932 | | Geoffrey Gault |
| Miss Pinkerton | 1932 | | Police Inspector Patten |
| The Purchase Price | 1932 | | Jim Gilson |
| Week-End Marriage | 1932 | | Peter Acton |
| The Rich Are Always with Us | 1932 | | Julian Tierney |
| So Big! | 1932 | | Roelf Pool |
| The Lightning Warrior | 1931 | | Alan Scott |
| Homicide Squad | 1931 | | Jimmy |
| Ex-Bad Boy | 1931 | | Donald Swift |
| Charlie Chan Carries On | 1931 | | Capt. Ronald Keane |
| Fair Warning | 1931 | | Les Haines |
| Once a Sinner | 1931 | | James Brent |
| Under Suspicion | 1930 | | Inspector Turner |
| The Iron Horse | 1924 | | Worker / Extra (uncredited) |
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