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James Brown

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.

Highest rated movies

100% Sands of Iwo Jima
98% A Star Is Born
89% Targets
86% Objective, Burma!
83% Going My Way

Photos

YOUNG AND WILLING, (standing) Robert Benchley, James Brown, William Holden, Eddie Bracken, (seated) Barbara Britton, Martha O'Driscoll, Susan Hayward, 1943 THE FIREBALL, Marilyn Monroe, James Brown, Mickey Rooney, 1950 YOUNG AND WILLING, Martha O'Driscoll, Barbara Britton, Eddie Bracken, Mabel Paige, James Brown, Susan Hayward, Florence MacMichael, 1943 THE GROOM WORE SPURS, from left: James Brown, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, 1951 AIR FORCE, Gig Young, John Ridgely, Charles Drake, James L. Brown, George Tobias, Arthur Kennedy, 1943 AIR FORCE, Willard Robertson, Moroni Olsen, Edward Brophy, James Brown, 1943 AIR FORCE, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, James Brown, John Ridgely, 1943 OBJECTIVE, BURMA!, Errol Flynn, James Brown, 1945
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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 (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 (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 25% 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 No Score Yet Anna Lucasta Buster (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 50% Yes Sir, That's My Baby Tony Cresnovitch (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