James Brown (II)
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Desdemona, Texas, USA
James Brown was born 22 March 1920 in the small town of Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas. Brown graduated from The Desdemona School (grades 1-12) which was built in 1922. It finally closed in 1969. Very athletic, Brown became a tennis pro before there was any money in it. He then entered films in 1941. Clearly a man of unlimited athletic prowess, he appeared in such rugged Hollywood productions as Wake Island (1942), Air Force (1943), Objective, Burma! (1945) and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). He had more sedate roles in Going My Way (1944), as the romantic lead "Ted Haines" (Bing Crosby, who was the star of the film, was a priest and therefore out of the running for the leading lady) and then, in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) (with John Wayne), Brown was a U.S. Marine, private first class "Charlie Bass". In The Pride of St. Louis (1952), a biopic about baseball star Dizzy Dean, Brown played a sidelined ballplayer "Moose". In Flight Nurse (1953), he played the plane's Flight Engineer on the mission mercy aircraft. He then began a television career as "Lt. Rip Masters" on TV's "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" (1954), which ran from 1954 to 1958. He then appeared in "The Rounders" (1966) TV Comedy Western Series (as James Bowen Brown) character "Luke". In 1976, the Rin Tin Tin TV series was re-released with new sepia tinted beginnings and endings with James L. Brown reprising his role as "Lt. Rip Masters". Few of his later movies are worth mentioning, though he had a few telling moments as the stern, rifle-toting father of the serial killer "protagonist" in Peter Bogdanovich's Targets (1968). He retired from acting in the late 1960s to manage his successful body-building equipment concern, and then was appointed head of customer relations at Faberge, a cosmetics firm. When Faberge's filmmaking division, Brut Productions, put together a 1975 comedy titled Whiffs (1975), the producers persuaded Brown to return to acting in a supporting role. He passed away in 1992 after a long battle with lung cancer.Date of Death11 April 1992, (lung cancer)
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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85% | Still Alice |
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— | 2015 |
100% | Sound City |
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$0.5M | 2013 |
84% | Soul Power |
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$0.2M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | The Night James Brown Saved Boston |
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— | 2008 |
73% | Glastonbury |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Adios Amigo |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Paper Chasers |
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— | 2003 |
21% | The Tuxedo |
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$50.2M | 2002 |
78% | Undercover Brother |
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$38.3M | 2002 |
12% | Holy Man |
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— | 1998 |
46% | Blues Brothers 2000 |
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— | 1997 |
98% | When We Were Kings |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | James Brown: Hard Hits |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | James Brown & Friends: Set Fire to the Soul |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | James Brown: In East Berlin |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | The Great Ones |
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— | 1988 |
39% | Rocky IV |
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— | 1985 |
33% | Doctor Detroit |
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— | 1983 |
73% | The Blues Brothers |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | James Brown: Body Heat |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | James Brown: Live in Concert |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Whiffs |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Mean Johnny Barrows |
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— | 1975 |
89% | Targets |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | The Ceremony |
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— | 1963 |
76% | Irma La Douce |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Gun Street |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | When The Clock Strikes |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | Gun Fight |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | Five Guns To Tombstone |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | Inside the Mafia |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | The Runaway Bus |
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— | 1954 |
98% | A Star Is Born |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Thunder Over the Plains |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Charge At Feather River |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Man Behind the Gun |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Springfield Rifle |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Pride of St. Louis |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Starlift |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Groom Wore Spurs, The |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Missing Women |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | The Fireball |
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— | 1950 |
100% | Sands of Iwo Jima |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Montana |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Chain Lightning |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Yes Sir That's My Baby |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | The Younger Brothers |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Corvette K-225 |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Our Hearts Were Growing Up |
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— | 1946 |
83% | Objective, Burma! |
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— | 1945 |
81% | Going My Way |
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— | 1944 |
82% | Air Force |
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— | 1943 |
88% | Wake Island |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Young and Willing |
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— | 1942 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Married...With Children
1987-1997
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No Score Yet |
New York Undercover
1994-1998
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85% |
The Simpsons
1989
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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71% |
Miami Vice
1984-1990
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No Score Yet |
Dallas
1978-1991
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
Starsky & Hutch
1975-1979
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Flip Wilson Show
1970-1974
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
The Adventures of Superman
1952-1958
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