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Clarence Brown
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Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director. After serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the United States Army Air Service d…
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Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director. After serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the United States Army Air Service during World War I, Brown was given his first co-directing credit (with Tourneur) for The Great Redeemer (1920). Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall. Brown moved to Universal in 1924, and then to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he remained until the mid-1950s. At MGM he was one of the main directors of their major female stars, he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven. Brown was nominated five times for six films (see below) for an Academy Award as a director, but he never received an Oscar. However, he won Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina, starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival. Brown's films gained a total of 38 Academy Award nominations and earned nine Oscars. Brown himself received five Academy Award nominations for six films and in 1949, he won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust. In 1957, Brown was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Brown retired a wealthy man due to his real estate investments, but refused to watch new movies, as he feared they might cause him to restart his career. The Clarence Brown Theater, on the campus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director without a win, with six.
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1988
Dead Heat
Movie Harry Latham
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1986
Fats Domino Live from Austin Texas
Movie Batterie
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1985
The Twilight Zone
TV show (segment "Need to Know")
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1953
Never Let Me Go
Movie Producer
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1952
Plymouth Adventure
Movie Director
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1952
When in Rome
Movie Director
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1951
It's a Big Country
Movie Director
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1951
Angels in the Outfield
Movie Director
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1950
To Please a Lady
Movie Director
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1949
Intruder in the Dust
Movie Director
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1949
The Secret Garden
Movie Producer
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1947
Song of Love
Movie Director
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1946
The Yearling
Movie Director
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1945
National Velvet
Movie Director
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1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
Movie Director
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1943
The Human Comedy
Movie Producer
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1941
They Met in Bombay
Movie Director
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1941
Come Live with Me
Movie Director
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1940
Edison, the Man
Movie Director
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1939
The Rains Came
Movie Director
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1939
Idiot's Delight
Movie Director
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1938
Hollywood Goes to Town
Movie Self
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1938
Of Human Hearts
Movie Director
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1937
Conquest
Movie Director
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1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie Director
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1936
Wife vs. Secretary
Movie Director
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1935
Ah, Wilderness!
Movie Director
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1935
Anna Karenina
Movie Director
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1934
Chained
Movie Director
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1934
Sadie McKee
Movie Director
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1933
Night Flight
Movie Director
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1933
Looking Forward
Movie Director
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1932
The Son-Daughter
Movie Director
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1932
Letty Lynton
Movie Director
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1932
Emma
Movie Director
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1931
Possessed
Movie Man on Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
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1931
A Free Soul
Movie Director
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1931
Inspiration
Movie Director
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1930
Romance
Movie Director
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1930
Anna Christie
Movie Director
