John Brown
- Professione
- Recitazione
- Nascita
- 4 aprile 1904
- Luogo di nascita
- Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Morte
- 16 maggio 1957
Biografia
Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley,[2] played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, both "Gillis" and Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show), "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, and "Thorny" the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Perhaps his most memorable piece of work is the ‘Broadway’ role; once heard, many find it impossible to think of the narrator of Damon Runyon’s stories as anyone else. It was a measure of Brown’s talent that this quintessentially American character was portrayed by an Englishman.
Brown appeared in some notable films: as the inebriated professor in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, uncredited), and The Wild One (1953); he supplied the voice of "Ro-Man" in the 1953 cult science fiction B-film Robot Monster.
Film con John Brown
- L'altro uomo 1951 · ★ 7.7
- Ultimatum alla Terra 1951 · ★ 7.4
- Lo straniero 1946 · ★ 7.2
- Il selvaggio 1953 · ★ 6.5
- La grande nebbia 1953 · ★ 6.4
- Robot Monster 1953 · ★ 4.5
- Il favoloso Andersen 1952 · ★ 6.2
- Symphony in Slang 1951 · ★ 7.3
- Lezione di cagneria 1953 · ★ 7.0
- Vita con Tom 1953 · ★ 6.3
- Dixieland 1954 · ★ 6.9
- La tromba squilla a mezzanotte 1945 · ★ 5.9
- Jennifer 1953 · ★ 6.0
- Crazylegs 1953 · ★ 5.8
- The Life of Riley 1949 · ★ 8.0
- A Peach of a Pair 1934 · ★ 8.0
- Man Crazy 1953 · ★ 7.0