Neville Brand

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Neville Brand (born August 13, 1920 in Griswold , Iowa , † April 16, 1992 in Sacramento , California ) was an American actor .

Life

Brand grew up as the son of Belgian - Dutch and Welsh parents in Kewanee , Illinois . After high school , he joined the US Army in 1939 . During the Second World War he was used as an infantryman in Germany, among other places, where he was seriously injured in a combat mission in April 1945. His war awards included the Purple Heart and the Silver Star . After the end of the war he began to study acting with the help of the "American Theater Wing", appeared in the theater and had his feature film debut in 1949 in the drug brigade . He was quickly committed to the role of villain in film noirs , gangster films, and westerns . 1953 followed a role in the Oscar- winning war film Stalag 17 . In 1955, Brand was nominated for the British Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Actor for his performance in Terror in Block 11 . From the mid-1950s, he began guest appearances on television series, including The Texan , A Thousand Miles of Dust, and Bonanza . He played the Texas Ranger Reese Bennet first as a guest role in the series The People of Shiloh Ranch , then from 1965 in 56 episodes of the series Laredo . In 1962 he also played on Broadway . His other feature films included The Prisoner of Alcatraz , Torah! Torah! Torah! and The Secret of the Flying Devil .

Brand died of emphysema in a Sacramento hospital in 1992 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview with Neville Brand in William R. Horner: Bad at the Bijou. McFarland & Co., Jefferson (NC) / London 1982, p. 21 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Neville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Griswold , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1992
Place of death Sacramento , California