Neville Brand
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Griswold, Iowa, USA
The oldest child of an itinerant bridge builder, actor Neville Brand intended to make the military his career, and indeed spent ten years in uniform. During World War II, he became America's fourth most decorated soldier when he wiped out a German 50-caliber machine gun nest. He also decided that he'd seek out another line of work as soon as his hitch was up. Paying for acting classes with his GI Bill, he started his career off-Broadway. In 1949, he made his film debut in D.O.A., playing a psychotic hoodlum who delights in punching poisoned hero Edmond O'Brien in the stomach. Brand spent most of the early '50s at 20th Century Fox, a studio that surprisingly downplayed the actor's war record by shuttling him from one unstressed supporting role to another (though he's the principal villain in 1950's Where the Sidewalk Ends, he receives no screen credit). He fared far better on television, where he won the Sylvania Award for his portrayal of Huey Long in a 1958 telestaging of All the King's Men. Even better received was his portrayal of Al Capone on the TV series The Untouchables, a characterization he repeated in the 1961 theatrical feature The George Raft Story. In 1966, Brand briefly shed his bad-guy image to play the broadly hilarious role of bumbling Texas Ranger Reese Bennett on the TV Western series Laredo. His off-camera reputation for pugnacity and elbow-bending was tempered by his unswerving loyalty to his friends and his insatiable desire to better himself intellectually (his private library was one of the largest in Hollywood, boasting some 5000 titles). Fighting a losing battle against emphysema during his last years, Neville Brand died at the age of 70.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | All The King's Men |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Evils of the Night |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Without Warning (It Came Without Warning) (Alien Encounters) |
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— | 1980 |
77% | The Ninth Configuration (Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane) |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Alien's Return |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Seekers |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Angels Brigade |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Hi-Riders |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Psychic Killer |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | The Mouse and His Child |
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— | 1977 |
35% | Eaten Alive |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Fire! |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Quest (The Longest Drive) |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Psychic Killer |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Killdozer |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Death Stalk |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | The Deadly Trackers |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The Mad Bomber |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | This Is a Hijack |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Cahill U.S. Marshal |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Scalawag |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Place to Run |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Hitched |
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— | 1971 |
55% | Tora! Tora! Tora! |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Lock, Stock and Barrel |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Backtrack |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | The Desperados |
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— | 1969 |
94% | That Darn Cat! |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Hero's Island |
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— | 1962 |
91% | Birdman of Alcatraz |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | Untouchables - Scarface Mob |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | The George Raft Story |
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— | 1961 |
60% | The Last Sunset |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Five Gates to Hell |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | Cry Terror! |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Lonely Man |
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— | 1957 |
83% | The Tin Star |
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— | 1957 |
55% | Love Me Tender |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Gun Brothers |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Mohawk |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Raw Edge |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Prodigal |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | The Return of Jack Slade |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Prince Valiant |
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— | 1954 |
100% | Riot in Cell Block 11 |
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— | 1954 |
No Score Yet | Gun Fury |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Charge At Feather River |
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— | 1953 |
100% | Man From the Alamo |
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— | 1953 |
97% | Stalag 17 |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Turning Point |
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— | 1952 |
86% | Kansas City Confidential (The Secret Four) |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Red Mountain |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Only the Valiant |
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— | 1951 |
80% | The Mob |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Flame of Araby |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye |
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— | 1950 |
88% | D.O.A. |
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— | 1950 |
88% | Halls of Montezuma |
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— | 1950 |
100% | Where the Sidewalk Ends |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Port of New York |
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— | 1949 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Quincy, M.E.
1976-1983
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No Score Yet |
Kojak
1973-1978
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No Score Yet |
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1976
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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Quotes from Neville Brand's Characters
Dan: | [to his kidnapping victim] I've got six little friends and they can all run faster than you can. |