Samson De Brier (March 18, 1909 – April 1, 1995) was an actor best known for hosting a popular Hollywood salon during the 1950s and 1960s, and for appearing in Kenneth Anger's 1954 underground film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
On his American return, he hosted the Gangplank radio show for WMCA in New York, where he interviewed some of the biggest celebrities of the day including Noël Coward, Sonja Henie and Thomas Mann traveling en route to America.
He bought a Victorian duplex on Barton Avenue in West Hollywood that included adjoining properties which he rented out, affording himself the freedom to live as a fulltime aesthete and professional putterer.
De Brier's home reflected his fondness for Art Nouveau decor, and velvet drapes, silken oriental robes, Tiffany lamps and ornate objets d'art dominating.
[1][excessive quote]In the 1940s, De Brier left Atlantic City for Los Angeles, and during the Second World War, he worked in a defense plant, sinking his wages into real estate.
Spencer Kansa relates that "When the PA kept cutting out, making Cameron inaudible, De Brier began complaining, so vociferously that the director of the gallery exclaimed get that old hairdresser out of here!".
[7] [8] Spencer Kansa relates that according to his old friend Wendy Hyland, De Brier had become a curmudgeon in his old age, prone to bouts of embarrassing behavior, making scenes in restaurants and with a phobia about apples.