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John Brown
Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley,[2] played Irma's love interest Al in My…
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Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley,[2] played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, both "Gillis" and Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show), "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, and "Thorny" the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Perhaps his most memorable piece of work is the ‘Broadway’ role; once heard, many find it impossible to think of the narrator of Damon Runyon’s stories as anyone else. It was a measure of Brown’s talent that this quintessentially American character was portrayed by an Englishman. Brown appeared in some notable films: as the inebriated professor in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, uncredited), and The Wild One (1953); he supplied the voice of "Ro-Man" in the 1953 cult science fiction B-film Robot Monster.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1954
Dixieland Droopy
Movie Narrator / Pee Wee Runt (voice) (uncredited)
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1953
The Wild One
Movie Bill Hannegan
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1953
The Bigamist
Movie
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1953
Man Crazy
Movie Mr. Duncan
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1953
Crazylegs
Movie Keller
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1953
Jennifer
Movie Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
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1953
Robot Monster
Movie Ro-Man / Great Guidance (voice)
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1952
Hans Christian Andersen
Movie Schoolmaster
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1951
I Love Lucy
TV show Mr. Murdoch
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1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show
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1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Movie George Barley
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1951
Strangers on a Train
Movie Prof. Collins
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1951
Symphony in Slang
Movie The Hipster / Noah Webster (voice) (uncredited)
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1950
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
TV show Harry Morton
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1949
The Life of Riley
TV show Digger O'Dell
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1949
The Life of Riley
Movie Digger O'Dell
More credits
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1946
The Stranger
Movie Passport Photographer (uncredited)
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1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Movie Lou the waiter (uncredited)
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1934
A Peach of a Pair
Movie John
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