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, 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 ‘Broadway’ role; once heard, many find it impossible to think of the narrator of Damon Runyon’s stories as anyone else. It was a measure of Brown’s talent that this quintessentially American character was portrayed by an Englishman.
Brown appeared in some notable films: as the inebriated professor in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, uncredited), and The Wild One (1953); he supplied the voice of "Ro-Man" in the 1953 cult science fiction B-film Robot Monster.
Filmography
all 28
Movies 25
Narrator 6
TV Shows 3
Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers (1956)
Dixieland Droopy (1954)
The Farm of Tomorrow (1954)
The Wild One (1953)
The Bigamist (1953)
Man Crazy (1953)
Crazylegs (1953)
Jennifer (1953)
The Unicorn in the Garden (1953)
Robot Monster (1953)
T.V. of Tomorrow (1953)
That's My Pup! (1953)
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
I Love Lucy (1951)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Symphony in Slang (1951)
Three Desperate Men (1951)
The Life of Riley (1949)
The Life of Riley (1949)
Speaking of Animals: Tain't So (1948)
Make Mine Freedom (1948)
Casey at the Bat (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
A Knight for a Day (1946)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
A Peach of a Pair (1934)
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GenderMale
Birthday1904-04-04
Deathday1957-05-16 (53 years old)
Birth PlaceKingston upon Hull, Kingdom of England
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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