Sidney Bracey

**Sidney Bracey** (an haife shi **Sidney Bracy;** 18 ga watan  Disamba 1877 - 5 Agusta 1942) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne ɗan ƙasar Australiya. An haife shi a cikin dangin wasan kwaikwayo, ya fara aiki a Ostiraliya, a Broadway da kuma Burtaniya yawanci a matsayin manyan mutane a cikin wasan kwaikwayo da wasan kwaikwayo na ban dariya, da kuma rawar wasan kwaikwayo, gami da wasan kwaikwayo ya Shakespeare. Daga nan sai ya yi fina-finai sama da 320 tsakanin 1909 da 1942, ana tunawa da shi saboda matsayinsa na halin da yake ciki a wasu lokuta masu fushi da iko, kamar shuwagabannin, daraktoci, kuma, musamman, masu daraja. Ya kuma ci gaba da yin wasan kwaikwayo a kan mataki, gami da vaudeville .

## Rayuwa ta farko da aikin mataki
An haifi Bracey a Melbourne, Victoria, tare da sunan Sidney Bracy, daga baya ya canza rubutun sunansa na karshe. Shi dan wasan Welsh ne Henry Bracy da kuma 'yar wasan Ingila Clara T. Bracy . Kakansa ita ce 'yar wasan kwaikwayo da mai rawa Lydia Thompson . Ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Melbourne . 

Ya fara aikinsa na mataki a Ostiraliya a cikin shekarun 1890, tare da kamfanonin wasan kwaikwayo na JC Williamson. A Broadway, a cikin 1900, ya bayyana a matsayin jagora mai ba da labari, Yussuf, a cikin samar da Amurka ta farko na The Rose of Persia a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Daly a New York. Daga nan sai ya koma Ingila, inda ya kirkiro rawar Moreno a cikin Wasan kwaikwayo na Edwardian wanda ya buga The *Toreador* a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Gaiety, London a watan Yunin 1901. Daga bisani ya shiga Kamfanin D'Oyly Carte Opera Company a kan yawon shakatawa a Burtaniya, yana wasa da wani jagora, Terence O'Brian, a cikin The Emerald Isle daga Satumba 1901 zuwa Mayu 1902.  Ya ci gaba da aikinsa na mataki a Burtaniya, inda ya kirkiro rawar Lupin a wasan kwaikwayo na Gaston Serpette Amorelle a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na London a 1904,  sannan ya fito a cikin The Winter's Tale a gidan wasan Knickerbocker na Broadway  da Twelfth Night a 1904 zuwa 1905.  Ya kirkiro wani rawar kiɗa, Mustapha, a cikin A Persian Princess a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Sarauniya a London a cikin 1909,  Komawa a Broadway, a cikin 1912, ya buga Sir Guy na Gisborne a cikin farfadowar Reginald na Koven's *Robin Hood* a gidan wasan New Amsterdam,  sannan *Rob Roy* ya biyo baya a gidan wasan Liberty a cikin 1913.

## Ayyukan fim
Daga nan Bracey ya koma yin fim, yana yin fina-finai na farko da ba a yi amfani da su ba sannan kuma "magana", har zuwa mutuwarsa a 1942, yayin da yake yin wasan kwaikwayo na raye-raye, gami da abokai kamar Frank Farrington da James Cruze .  Da farko a cikin aikin fim dinsa, daga 1913 zuwa 1915, ya yi aiki ga Kamfanin Thanhouser a fina-finai da yawa, sau da yawa yana taka rawar butler, kamar a cikin The Million Dollar Mystery . A can ya rubuta tare kuma ya ba da umarnin fim mai suna Sid Nee's Finish (1914), inda ya taka rawar gani. A shekara ta 1914, ya auri Evelyn Forshay .  Bayan Thanhouser, ya yi aiki tare da manyan ɗakunan karatu da yawa. A shekara ta 1916, ya canza rubutun sunansa na karshe zuwa "Bracey". Mai kula da fina-finai mai shiru Diane MacIntyre ya ba da wannan bayanin game da shi: "Bracey, mutumin kirki, yana cikin babban buƙata don iko kamar matsayi; kamar daraktocin fina-fakkaatu, shuwagabannin kuma, mafi yawan lokuta, mafi daraja da kuma mai kula da shi a duk Hollywood. Yana da ƙanƙanta, gashi mai duhu kuma yana da gaske, duk da haka mai hankali, fuska wanda zai iya shiga cikin fuska mai zurfi. "

Bracey ya mutu a Hollywood, California, a ranar 5 ga watan Agusta 1942, yana da shekaru 64. An binne shi a Kabari na Calvary a Gabashin Los Angeles . 

## Hotunan da aka zaɓa

## manazarta