Tom Brown (actor)

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Tom Brown (1932)

Thomas "Tom" Edward Brown (born January 6, 1913 in New York City , † June 3, 1990 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .

life and career

Tom Brown was born the son of vaudeville actor Harry Brown and his wife, musical performer Marie Brown. Brown modeled for Buster Brown and Buick as a child . Brown played his first role in the 1924 silent film The Hoosier Schoolmaster . He made his first sound film in 1929: The Lady Lies . In the 1930s, Brown was a popular actor of adolescent lovers in comedies or love films, for example in 1934 as Gilbert Blythe in the literary film adaptation of Anne of Green Gables based on the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery . In the same year he was also in the role of a young lawyer in John Ford's Comedy Judge Priest at the side of Will Rogers to see.

When Brown was getting too old for his teenage roles in the 1940s, he played mostly in numerous B-movies. During World War II , Brown joined the US Army and served as a parachutist. In the Korean War he fought in the 40th Infantry Division. He left the army with the rank of lieutenant colonel . From the 1950s onwards, Brown also made many guest appearances in successful television series such as Lassie , Perry Mason , Die Unbrechlichen , General Hospital and Zeit der Sehnsucht . In the series Smoking Colts he played for fifteen years in a recurring role the rancher Ed O'Connor . His last appearance was in 1979 in the television series The Jeffersons .

The actor was married twice, both marriages were divorced. From the second marriage he had three children. Brown received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1648 Vine Street. He died of cancer in Woodland Hills in 1990 at the age of 77 .

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SURNAME Brown, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1990
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles