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David Brian

David Brian

Highest Rated: 93% Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Lowest Rated: 29% The Rare Breed (1966)

Birthday: Aug 5, 1914

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Character actor David Brian got his start as a contract player for Warner Brothers Studio in 1949, where he was hired on the recommendation of one of the studio's biggest stars, Joan Crawford. Following his film debut opposite Crawford as corrupt businessman Dan Reynolds in the Southern noir "Flamingo Road," the pair worked together again in the melodrama "The Damned Don't Cry." After his Warner Brothers contract expired in the 1950s, Brian moved into roles on television, even briefly headlining the legal drama "Mr. District Attorney." He went on to appear in many Western productions, including guest spots on the popular shows "Gunsmoke" and "Rawhide."

Highest rated movies

93% Intruder in the Dust
88% How the West Was Won
86% Million Dollar Mermaid
83% Flamingo Road
80% The Damned Don't Cry
60% Beyond the Forest
50% Pocketful of Miracles
46% The High and the Mighty

Photos

FURY AT GUNSIGHT PASS, David Brian, 1956 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, David Brian, Joan Crawford, Steve Cochran, 1950 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, Joan Crawford, David Brian, 1950 THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBER, David Brian, 1950 INSIDE THE WALLS OF FOLSOM PRISON, David Brian, 1951 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, David Brian, 1950 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, Steve Cochran, David Brian, 1950 BEYOND THE FOREST, David Brian, Bette Davis, 1949 FLAMINGO ROAD, David Brian, Joan Crawford, 1949 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders, David Brian, Joan Crawford, 1950 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, Joan Crawford, Steve Cochran, Richard Egan, David Brian, 1950 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, Steve Cochran, Joan Crawford, David Brian, 1950 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, Joan Crawford, David Brian, 1950 THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, Joan Crawford, Kent Smith, David Brian, Hugh Sanders, 1950 THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, Jan Sterling, David Brian, Claire Trevor, John Wayne, 1954. THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS, from left: David Brian, Joan Crawford, 1952 THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, David Brian, Jan Sterling, Doe Avedon, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, 1954. THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, Paul Kelly, John Qualen, David Brian, Ann Doren, Paul Fix, Julie Bishop, Joy Kim, Sidney Blackmre, John Howard, Laraine Day, Claire Trevor, Jan Sterling, 1954. INTRUDER IN THE DUST, Claude Jarman Jr., Elizabeth Patterson, David Brian, 1949 THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS, from left: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Mari Aldon, 1952
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Confessions of Tom Harris Jennings (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Manhunter Walter Sinclair (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Destructors Hogan (Character) - 1967
29% 58% The Rare Breed Charles Ellsworth (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 0% Castle of Evil Robert Hawley (Character) - 1966
88% 74% How the West Was Won Lilith's attorney (Character) - 1962
50% 72% Pocketful of Miracles Governor (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rabbit Trap Everett Spellman (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ghost of the China Sea Martin French (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Accused of Murder Police Lt. Roy Hargis (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fury at Gunsight Pass Whitey Turner (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet The White Squaw Sigrod Swanson (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 6% No Place to Hide Dr. Dobson (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 21% The First Traveling Saleslady James Carter (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 50% Dawn at Socorro Dick Braden (Character) - 1954
46% 59% The High and the Mighty Ken Childs (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Timberjack Croft Brunner (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 14% Ambush at Tomahawk Gap Egan (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Perilous Journey Monty Breed (Character) - 1953
86% 69% Million Dollar Mermaid Alfred Harper (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 29% This Woman Is Dangerous Matt Jackson (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 54% Springfield Rifle Austin McCool (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 33% Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison Mark Benson (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 57% Inside Straight Rip MacCool (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 62% Fort Worth Blair Lunsford (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 62% Breakthrough Capt. Tom Hale (Character) - 1950
80% 75% The Damned Don't Cry George Castleman/Joe Caveny (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Jewel Robber Gerard Graham Dennis (Character) - 1950
60% 66% Beyond the Forest Neil Latimer (Character) - 1949
93% 83% Intruder in the Dust John Gavin Stevens (Character) - 1949
83% 71% Flamingo Road Dan Reynolds (Character) - 1949

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Tait Cavanaugh (Guest Star) 1968 1970 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Story Borenson (Character) 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Immortal Unknown (Character) 1970-1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1969-1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Clifton Ross Sr. (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cimarron Strip Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
80% 88% Star Trek John Gill (Guest Star) 1968
10% No Score Yet The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love on a Rooftop Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Iron Horse Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Please Don't Eat the Daisies Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Branded Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet 54% I Dream of Jeannie P.J. Ferguson (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Laredo Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dakotas Fargo (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Laramie Walt Douglas (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cain's Hundred Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rawhide Unknown (Guest Star) 1959 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Untouchables Unknown (Guest Star) 1960-1961