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James Brown
Highest Rated: 100% Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Lowest Rated: 83% Going My Way (1944)
Birthday: Mar 22, 1920
Birthplace: Desdemona, Texas, USA
After a brief stint as a teenage tennis player, Brown turned to acting in the early 1940s, mostly in B action films. He starred as the young romantic lead in "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" (1944) and its sequel, "Our Hearts Were Growing Up" (1946), but is best known as Lt. Rip Masters, father figure to a young boy at an Old West outpost in the children's TV series "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin." (The show ran from 1954 to 1959 and was later syndicated, with new introductions featuring Brown, in the 1970s.) Brown retired from film in the 1960s to become a manufacturer of body-building equipment but returned to the screen with a part in the spoof "Whiffs" (1975). Brown acted under the names James and Jim Brown and is not to be confused with black athlete-turned-film star Jim Brown or soul recording star James Brown.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Courage of Rin Tin Tin | Lt. Ripley "Rip" Masters (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 10% | Adios Amigo | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | Mean Johnny Barrows | Police Sergeant (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 89% | 81% | Targets | Robert Thompson, Sr. (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Space Monster | Col. Hank Stevens (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Town Tamer | Davis (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Police Dog Story | Norm Edward (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gun Street | Sheriff Morton (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gun Fight | Wayne Santley (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | When the Clock Strikes | Sam Morgan (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Guns to Tombstone | Billy Wade (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 20,000 Eyes | Jerry Manning (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wings of Chance | Steve Kirby (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Mafia | Capt. Doug Blair (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moochie of the Little League | Andy Clinton (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin | Lt. Ripley 'Rip' Masters (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rin Tin Tin: Hero of the West | Unknown (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 98% | 81% | A Star Is Born | Glenn Williams (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Charge at Feather River | Pvt. Connors (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crazylegs | Bill (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Thunder Over the Plains | Conrad (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Springfield Rifle | Pvt. Ferguson (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Pride of St. Louis | Moose (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Woman They Almost Lynched | Frank James (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | The Groom Wore Spurs | Steve Hall (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 28% | Chain Lightning | Maj. Hinkle (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 26% | Montana | Tex Coyne (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Fireball | Allen (Character) | - | 1950 |
| 100% | 80% | Sands of Iwo Jima | Pfc. Charlie Bass (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Yes Sir, That's My Baby | Tony Cresnovitch (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anna Lucasta | Buster (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brimstone | Bud Courteen (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Younger Brothers | Bob Younger (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gallant Legion | Texas Ranger Tom Banner (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Big Fix | Ken Williams (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Hearts Were Growing Up | Avery Moore (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 86% | 72% | Objective, Burma! | SSgt. Treacy (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 83% | 74% | Going My Way | Ted Haines Jr. (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Hearts Were Young and Gay | Avery Moore (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young and Willing | Tony Dennison (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Corvette K-225 | Lt. Paul Cartwright (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Forest Rangers | George Tracy (Character) | - | 1942 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | Lt. Ripley "Rip" Masters (Character) | 1954-1959 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Dr. Church (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barbary Coast | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Forest Ranger Mike McBride (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Timmy & Lassie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Paul School (Guest Star) | 1960-1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Mark Feeney (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Lucky (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Lon MacRae (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Ranger | Deputy Sandy Clifford (Guest Star) | 1952 |