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John Brown
Acting
04 Apr 1904
† 16 May 1957
Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
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...
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John Brown's Movies
77%
Strangers on a Train
27 Jun 1951
75%
The Day the Earth Stood Still
18 Sept 1951
72%
The Stranger
02 Jun 1946
66%
The Wild One
30 Dec 1953
65%
The Bigamist
03 Dec 1953
45%
Robot Monster
24 Jun 1953
62%
Hans Christian Andersen
19 Dec 1952
73%
Symphony in Slang
16 Jun 1951
68%
Dixieland Droopy
04 Dec 1954
57%
The Horn Blows at Midnight
28 Apr 1945
58%
Jennifer
25 Oct 1953
50%
Crazylegs
15 Nov 1953
70%
The Life of Riley
16 Apr 1949
70%
A Peach of a Pair
29 Dec 1934
60%
Man Crazy
02 Dec 1953
0%
