JOHNNY MACK BROWN
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Date of Birth
1 September 1904, Dothan, Alabama, USA
Date of Death
14 November 1974, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (cardiac condition)
Nickname
The Dothan Antelope
Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)
Spouse
Cornelia Connie' Foster' (1926 - 14 November 1974) (his death) 4 children
Trivia
Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Court of Freedom, Columbarium of Heavenly Peace.
Daughters,Jane Harriet,d.'97, Cynthia, Sally and son John Lachlan "Locky".
In his westerns, his horse was named Rebel.
Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1957, the Alabama Sports H of F 1969, The Rose Bowl H of F 2000, The State of AL Stage & Screen H of F 2004, World Gunspinning H of F 2003, The Golden Boot Award 2004, the Oklahoma Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's H of F 2008.
In recognition of his contribution to the motion picture industry, Brown was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6101 Hollywood Blvd. In 1969, Brown was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
There is a film festival every year in his honor in Dothan, Alabama.
Mini Biography
An All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown chose the silver screen over the green grass of the football field when he graduated. Signed to a contract with MGM in 1926, Brown debuted in Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927) with William Haines in a film about - baseball. This was followed by The Bugle Call (1927), which starred the fading Jackie Coogan. In 1928 he appeared in the last Norma Shearer silent film, A Lady of Chance (1928). After that, he worked with Greta Garbo, Marion Davies and Mary Pickford. His muscular good looks only carried him so far in films, however, and by 1930 he had yet to find his place. At MGM Clark Gable was taking the roles that Brown was up for, so he went into a western for director King Vidor, Billy the Kid (1930). While Vidor did not want him for the part to begin with, the picture was successful; however, Brown's career at MGM soon ended. By 1933 he was still making westerns, but they were for low-rung studios like Mascot. More westerns at even lower-rung Supreme Pictures followed, as well as serials like Wild West Days (1937) at Universal. In 1943 Brown took his boots over to Monogram Pictures, where he made over 60 westerns. He started off as "Nevada Jack McKenzie" in the Rough Riders series, but the name soon changed to Johnny. As with most of the early cowboy stars, he was a hero to millions of young children and consistently among the top ten money-makers in westerns from 1942-50. The bubble burst, though, just as it did for Allan Lane, in 1953, as the days of the "B" western came to an end.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Tony Fontana
Filmography
Actor
1965 Apache Uprising ...Sheriff Ben Hall
1965 The Bounty Killer ...Sheriff Green
1965 Requiem for a Gunfighter ...Enkoff
1958 Tales of Wells Fargo (TV series) – Scapegoat (1958) … Sheriff Eaton
1958 Perry Mason (TV series) – The Case of the Daring Decoy (1958) … Warner Griffith (as John Mack Brown)
1958 Official Detective (TV series) – Hired Killer (1958) … Lt. Coleman
1953 The Marshal's Daughter ...Johnny Mack Brown, Poker-Game Player
1952 Canyon Ambush ...Johnny Mack Brown
1952 Dead Man's Trail ...Johnny Mack Brown
1952 Man from the Black Hills ...Johnny Mack Brown
1952 Texas City ...Johnny Mack Brown
1951 Texas Lawmen ...Marshal Johnny Mack Brown
1951 Whistling Hills ...Johnny Mack Brown
1951 Oklahoma Justice ...Johnny Mack Brown
1951 Montana Desperado ...Dave Borden
1951 Blazing Bullets ..Johnny Mack Brown
1951 Man from Sonora ...Johnny Mack Brown
1951 Colorado Ambush ...Johnny Mack Brown
1950 Short Grass ...Sheriff Ord Keown
1950 Outlaw Gold ...Johnny Mack Brown
1950 Law of the Panhandle ...U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown
1950 Six Gun Mesa ...Johnny Mack Brown
1950 Over the Border ...Johnny Mack Brown
1950 West of Wyoming ...Johnny Mack Brown
1949 Western Renegades ...Johnny Mack Brown
1949 Range Justice ...Johnny Mack Brown
1949 West of El Dorado ...Johnny Mack
1949 Stampede ...Sheriff Aaron Ball
1949 Trails End ...Johnny Mack
1949 Law of the West ...Marshal Johnny Mack
1948 Hidden Danger ...Johnny Mack
1948 Gunning for Justice ...Johnny Mack
1948 The Sheriff of Medicine Bow ...Sheriff Johnny Mack Brown
1948 The Fighting Ranger ...Johnny Brown
1948 Back Trail ...Johnny Mack
1948 Triggerman ...Johnny Mack Brown
1948 Frontier Agent ...Johnny Mack Brown
1948 Crossed Trails ...Johnny Mack
1948 Overland Trails ...Johnny Murdock
1947 Gun Talk ...Johnny McVey
1947 Prairie Express ...Johnny Hudson
1947 Flashing Guns ...Johnny Mack
1947 Code of the Saddle ...John Macklin
1947 Law Comes to Gunsight ...Johnny Mackey
1947 Land of the Lawless ...Johnny Mack
1947 Trailing Danger ...Johnny
1947 Valley of Fear ...Johnny Williams
1947 Raiders of the South ...Captain Johnny Brownell
1946 Silver Range ...Johnny Bronton
1946 Shadows on the Range
Steve Mason posing as Steve Saunders
1946 Trigger Fingers ...Sam 'Hurricane' Benton
1946 The Gentleman from Texas ...Johnny Macklin
1946 Under Arizona Skies ...'Dusty' Smith
1946 The Haunted Mine ...Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
1946 Drifting Along ...Steve Garner
1946 Border Bandits ...Marshal 'Nevada'
1945 Frontier Feud ...Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
1945 The Lost Trail ...Marshal 'Nevada' Jack McKenzie
1945 Flame of the West ...Dr. John Poole
1945 Stranger from Santa Fe ...U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie, posing as Roy Ferris
1945 Gun Smoke ...Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
1945 The Right to Live ...Maj. Tex O'Connor
1945 The Navajo Trail ...Marshal Nevada McKenzie
1944 Ghost Guns ...Marshal Nevada McKenzie
1944 Law of the Valley ...Marshal Nevada McKenzie
1944 Land of the Outlaws ...Marshal Nevada McKenzie
1944 West of the Rio Grande ...U.S. Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
1944 Range Law ...U. S. Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
1944 Law Men ...U.S. Marshal 'Nevada' Jack McKenzie
1944 Partners of the Trail ...U.S. Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
1944 Raiders of the Border ...Nevada Jack McKenzie
1943 The Texas Kid ...Nevada Jack McKenzie, U.S. Marshal
1943 Outlaws of Stampede Pass ...Marshal 'Nevada Jack' McKenzie
1943 Crazy House ...Cameo appearance
1943 The Lone Star Trail ...Blaze Barker
1943 Six Gun Gospel ...Marshal 'Nevada' Jack McKenzie
1943 The Stranger from Pecos ...Nevada Jack McKenzie
1943 Raiders of San Joaquin ...Rocky Morgan aka The Black Rider
1943 Cheyenne Roundup ...Buck Brandon & Gils Brandon
1943 The Ghost Rider ...Nevada Jack McKenzie
1943 Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground ...Wade Benson
1942 The Old Chisholm Trail ...Dusty Gardner
1942 Little Joe, the Wrangler ...Neal Wallace
1942 Deep in the Heart of Texas ...Jim Mallory
1942 Boss of Hangtown Mesa ...Steve Collins
1942 The Silver Bullet ..Silver Jim Donovan
1942 Ride 'Em Cowboy ...Alabam' Brewster
1942 Stagecoach Buckaroo ...Steve Hardin
1941 Fighting Bill Fargo ...Bill Fargo
1941 Arizona Cyclone ...Tom Baxter
1941 The Masked Rider ...Larry Prescott
1941 Man from Montana ...Sheriff Bob Dawson
1941 Rawhide Rangers ...Brand Calhoun
1941 Law of the Range ...Steve Howard
1941 Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie ...Joe Henderson
1940 Pony Post ...Cal Sheridan
1940 Lucky Ralston ...Bill Ralston
1940 Ragtime Cowboy Joe ...Steve Logan
1940 Son of Roaring Dan ...Jim Reardon (posing as Horace McPhail)
1940 Bad Man from Red Butte ...Gils Brady/Buck Halliday
1940 Riders of Pasco Basin ...Lee Jamison
1940 Boss of Bullion City ...Tom Bryant
1940 West of Carson City ...Jim Bannister
1939 Chip of the Flying U ...'Chip' Bennett
1939 Oklahoma Frontier ...Jeff McLeod
1939 Desperate Trails ...Steve Hayden (as John Mack Brown)
1939 The Oregon Trail ...Jeff Scott (as John Mack Brown)
1938 Flaming Frontiers ...Tex Houston (as John Mack Brown)
1937 Wells Fargo ...Talbot Carter
1937 Born to the West ...Tom Fillmore (as John Mack Brown)
1937 Boothill Brigade ...Lon Cardigan
1937 Wild West Days ...Kentucky Wade (as John Mack Brown)
1937 A Lawman Is Born ...Tom Mitchell
1937 Guns in the Dark ...Johnny Darrell
1937 Bar-Z Bad Men ...Jim Waters
1937 Lawless Land ...Ranger Jeff Hayden
1937 Trail of Vengeance ...Kenneth 'Dude' Ramsey
1937 The Gambling Terror ...Jeff Hayes
1936 Under Cover Man ...Steve McLain
1936 The Crooked Trail ...Jim Blake
1936 Everyman's Law ...Dog Town Kid
1936 Spider and the Fly ...Dan Doran
1936 Desert Phantom ...Billy Donovan
1936 Valley of the Lawless ...Bruce Reynolds
1935 The Courageous Avenger ...Kirk Baxter
1935 Between Men ...Johnny Wellington Jr.
1935 Branded a Coward ...Johnny Hume
1935 The Rustlers of Red Dog ...Jack Wood (as John Mack Brown)
1934 Urgent Call ...Steve Wayne (as John Mack Brown)
1934 Belle of the Nineties ...Brooks Claybourne (as John Mack Brown)
1934 Cross Streets ...Adam Blythe
1934 Marrying Widows ...The Husband
1934 St. Louis Woman ...Jim Warren (as John Mack Brown)
1934 Three on a Honeymoon Chuck Wells
1933 Son of a Sailor ..'Duke'
1933 Female ;;;George P. Cooper
1933 Saturday's Millions ...Alan Barry
1933 Fighting with Kit Carson ...Kit Carson
1932 Malay Nights ...Jim Wilson (as John Mack Brown)
1932 70,000 Witnesses ...Wally Clark
1932 The Vanishing Frontier ...Kirby Tornell
1932 Flames ...Charlie
1931 Hollywood Halfbacks (short)
1931 Lasca of the Rio Grande ...Miles Kincaid (as John Mack Brown)
1931 The Last Flight ...Bill Talbot (as John Mack Brown)
1931 The Secret Six ...Hank Rogers (as John Mack Brown)
1931 The Great Meadow ...Berk Jarvis
1930 Billy the Kid ...William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney (as John Mack Brown)
1930 Montana Moon ...Larry Kerrigan (as John Mack Brown)
1930 Undertow ...Paul Whalen
1930 Great Day
1929 Jazz Heaven ...Barry Holmes (as John Mack Brown)
1929 Hurricane ...Dan
1929 The Single Standard ...Tommy Hewlett (as John Mack Brown)
1929 The Valiant ...Robert Ward
1929 Coquette ...Michael Jeffery (as John Mack Brown)
1928 A Woman of Affairs ...David Furness (as John Mack Brown)
1928 A Lady of Chance ...Steve Crandall (as John Mack Brown)
1928 Branded a Coward ...Bill (as John Mack Brown)
1928 Our Dancing Daughters ...Ben Blaine (as John Mack Brown)
1928 The Play Girl ...Bradley Lane
1928 Square Crooks ...Larry Scott (as John Mack Brown)
1928 Soft Living ...Stockney Webb (as John Mack Brown)
1928 The Divine Woman ...Jean Lery
1927 The Fair Co-Ed ...Bob
1927 After Midnight ...Party Boy (uncredited)
1927 Mockery ...Russian Officer
1927 The Bugle Call ...Bit (uncredited)
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