Jay Belasco (January 11, 1888 May 1, 1949), born Reginald James Belasco, was an American

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whose career mostly involved

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...

. Belasco was born in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, New York, and was a cousin of actors

Walter Belasco Walter Belasco (December 1864 21 June 1939) was a Canadian silent film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern ...

and David Belasco. He died from a

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on May 1, 1949, in

Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Belasco, Jay American male silent film actors Male actors from New York City 1888 births 1949 deaths 20th-century American male actors Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica People from Brooklyn