Charles D. Brown
Birthday: 1887-06-30
Place of Birth: Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Biography: Charles D. Brown was an American stage and screen actor. His Broadway career spanned the years 1911 through 1937, while his film career, that included more than 100 movies, stretched from 1921 to his death in 1948. Brown additionally, in 1914, wrote and directed one short film, The Bank Burglar's Fate.
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The Big Sleep
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
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Santa Fe Trail
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G...
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Follow Me Quietly
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim...
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious M...
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Brother Orchid
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h...
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Apology for Murder
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced ...
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Charlie Chan in Reno
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murde...
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Night Editor
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall....
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The Killers
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, ...
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Railroaded!
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room,...
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Pre...
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The Old Swimmin' Hole
Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc El...
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Barefoot Boy
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks....
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Fingers at the Window
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen...
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
An innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his wife f...
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life....
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The Last Crooked Mile
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow....
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Secret Command
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the sh...
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Minesweeper
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II b...
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Roxie Hart
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audienc...
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a...
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel mark...
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In This Corner
A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship...
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Merton of the Movies
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studio...
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Think It Over
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money....
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The Duke of West Point
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of ...
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Wolf of New York
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a pol...
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Having Wonderful Crime
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort...
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Devil Pays Off
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the ene...
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Undercover Maisie
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on th...
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a...
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In Fast Company
The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independe...
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He Married His Wife
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony ...
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Wake Up and Dream
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother....
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The Searching Wind
Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowma...
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Exposed
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue...
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Disbarred
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of...
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Sweater Girl
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together th...
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The Man Who Dared
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show tha...
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The False Madonna
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man....
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Algiers
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resi...
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The Crowd Roars
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's...
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Inside Story
A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-f...
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Sunbonnet Sue
Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the ex...
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The Dance of Life
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so t...
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Tell No Tales
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save ...
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Kid Nightingale
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t...
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Smashing the Money Ring
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in ...
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Babes in Arms
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his gir...
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Ride, Kelly, Ride
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter....
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I Take This Woman
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's sug...
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The Shopworn Angel
During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He me...
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-bl...
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Notorious
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman,...
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Eve Knew Her Apples
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager an...
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The Leather Pushers
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspi...
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Just Before Dawn
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summon...
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Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov...
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Up in Arms
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-b...
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The Hoodlum Saint
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's m...
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Florian
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by...
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Johnny Apollo
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur...
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City of Chance
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to...
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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. ...
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The Fighting Seabees
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work...
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Know Your Money
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring an...
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Buyer Beware
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise....
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The Racket Man
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees...
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The Road to Reno
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who ...
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The Secret Call
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy ...
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A Lady Takes a Chance
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her ci...
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Gold Diggers of 1937
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a go...
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International Lady
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reg...
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On Our Merry Way
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where h...
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Bombardier
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U...
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Speed to Burn
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raisi...
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Destroyer
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to...
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Reaching for the Sun
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by work...
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Tomorrow Is Forever
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Eliza...
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Jam Session
A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career....
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Pier 13
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling ...
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Sailor's Lady
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose...
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Forgotten Girls
A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover....
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Island in the Sky
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attor...
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Up the River
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape ...
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Touchdown!
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs....
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I Walk Alone
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught a...
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Swing Shift Maisie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in...
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Maisie Was a Lady
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires h...
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Glamour Boy
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays ...
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Let's Live Again
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to pr...
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A Man of Stone
Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname ...
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Follow the Boys
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star...
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