Arthur Jasmine  

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Arthur Jasmine (April 4, 1899, St. Paul, Minnesota – April 1, 1995, Los Angeles, California), also known as Samson De Brier or Sampson De Brier, was an American film actor.

Biography

Jasmine began his career as a child actor at Essanay Studios in Niles, California. He appeared in 22 films between years 1915 and 1925 most notably in Alla Nazimova's Salomé (1923).

After keeping out of the limelight for several years Jasmine took on the pseudonym Samson De Brier (sometimes cited as Sampson de Brier), and opened up an artist's salon in Los Angeles, California, in the early 1940s, attracting the likes of Jack Parsons, Anton LaVey, Ray Bradbury, L. Ron Hubbard, Forrest J. Ackerman, and a teenaged Kenneth Anger.

In 1954 Jasmine took part in Anger's ground-breaking independent film, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome. It is alleged that Jasmine helped Kenneth Anger compile his notorious books Hollywood Babylon and Hollywood Babylon 2.

Selected filmography

Features:

• The Man in the Moonlight (1919)
• Common Property (1919)
• Lasca (1919)
• A Tokyo Siren (1920)
• The Fire Cat (1921)
• Thunder Island (1921)
• The Son of the Wolf (1922)
• The Ninety and Nine (1922)
• Salomé (1923)
• Scaramouche (1923)
• Lure of the Yukon (1924)
• Justice of the Far North (1925)
• After Marriage (1925)
• Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)

Short Subjects:

• Versus Sledge Hammers (1915)
• Broncho Billy's Parents (1915)
• When Snakeville Struck Oil (1915)
• The Night That Sophie Graduated (1915)
• Too Much Turkey (1915)
• It Happened in Snakeville (1915)
• A Christmas Revenge (1915)
• The Man in Him (1916)
• A Waiting Game (1916)