Charles D. Brown
Charles D. Brown was an American stage and screen actor. His Broadway career spanned the years 1911 through 1937, while his film career, that included more than 100 movies, stretched from 1921 to his death in 1948. Brown additionally, in 1914, wrote and directed one short film, The Bank Burglar's Fate.
The Big Sleep
as Norris the ButlerPrivate Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter...
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Notorious
as Judge (uncredited)In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia...
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The Grapes of Wrath
as WilkieTom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...
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The Killers
as Packy Robinson - Ole's ManagerTwo hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the...
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Santa Fe Trail
as Major SumnerAs a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B....
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Railroaded!
as Police Captain MacTaggartA beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back...
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
as McCarthyThree childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the...
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Boom Town
as U.S. Marshal Stebbins (uncredited)Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both...
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The Fighting Seabees
as Capt. Squires (uncredited)Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the...
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A Lady Takes a Chance
as Dr. G.W. HumboldtA city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget...
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I Walk Alone
as Lt. Hollaran (uncredited)Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is...
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Algiers
as MaxPepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a...
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Tomorrow Is Forever
as Immigration OfficerIn 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war....
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Tell No Tales
as Police Lt. Brandt (uncredited)A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...
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Babes in Arms
as Larry Randall (uncredited)Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his...
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Brother Orchid
as Brother WrenWhen retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill...
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
as Capt. Thomas CastleIn Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel...
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Fingers at the Window
as Police Inspector GallagherIn Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders,...
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Up the River
as Warden HarrisA group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison...
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Night Editor
as Crane StewartA daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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Johnny Apollo
as Sergeant Putting Pinch on Mickey and Johnny (uncredited)Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then...
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Minesweeper
as Commander LaneA naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War...
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The Ice Follies of 1939
as BarneyMary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary...
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Swing Shift Maisie
as Curtis Glenby (Uncredited)Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and...
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Secret Command
as James ThaneSam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at...
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The Shopworn Angel
as McGonigleDuring WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training....
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Apology for Murder
as Ward McGeeHead over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is...
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Bombardier
as Officer at BriefingA documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to...
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Roxie Hart
as Charles E. MurdockA café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing...
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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
as Click DonovanCricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the...
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The Last Crooked Mile
as Dietrich, Bank PresidentA mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
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Florian
as New York Police Lt.Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought...
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Kid Nightingale
as Charles PaxtonA waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Maisie Was a Lady
as 'Doctor' in Sideshow (Uncredited)Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who...
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Follow Me Quietly
as Police Insp. Mulvaney1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as "the Judge" who kills his victims on...
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Having Wonderful Crime
as Mr. WinslowNewlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain...
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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
as Inspector StevensAn innocent dancer is accused of murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene, but his...
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Pier 13
as Police Captain BlakeA policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront...
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Just Before Dawn
as Insp. BurnsIn the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is...
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Know Your Money
as George D. WaldronThis MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting...
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Gold Diggers of 1937
as HugoThe partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist...
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City of Chance
as District AttorneyTexas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler...
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I Take This Woman
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's...
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On Our Merry Way
as Mr. SaddOliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper...
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Devil Pays Off
as Capt. Jonathan HuntA former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the...
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The Hoodlum Saint
as Ed Collner - Chronicle ReporterA former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that...
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Reaching for the Sun
as JohnsonComedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by...
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Danger Woman
as Inspector PepperA woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.
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Island in the Sky
as Inspector WhiteheadA secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district...
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Merton of the Movies
as Jeff BairdIn 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth...
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Disbarred
as JacksonThe Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the...
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
as Mike DawsonA nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
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Charlie Chan in Reno
as Police Chief KingMary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of...
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International Lady
as TetlowTim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and...
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
as DintyA bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the...
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Little Accident
as Jeff CollinsA baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.
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Forgotten Girls
as Editor LintonA disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
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Destroyer
as Doctor, finding Boley unfit for further sea dutyFlagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is...
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Undercover Maisie
as Captain MeadMaisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department...
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Flight to Fame
as Major LoyAn evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
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Barefoot Boy
as Calvin WhittakerA spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
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Exposed
as Steve ConwayA magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications...
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The Road to Reno
as JimJackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff -...
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He Married His Wife
as DetectiveRace horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His...
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Glamour Boy
as Martin CarmichaelFormer child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He...
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Sunbonnet Sue
as Father HurleySet in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows...
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In Fast Company
as Father DonovanThe Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several...
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The Dance of Life
as Lefty MillerA vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers,...
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Buyer Beware
as Police Insp. William C. Thomas (uncredited)This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.
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The Duke of West Point
as Ann's FatherA cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because...
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Smashing the Money Ring
as ParkerT-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up...
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The Crowd Roars
as Bill ThorneA young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the...
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Tall, Dark and Handsome
as District AttorneyRobin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad...
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The Racket Man
as Editor ClarkA gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been,...
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Speed to Burn
as Pop WilliamsHorse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been...
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Let's Live Again
as PsychiatristThe brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth...
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Inside Story
as J.B. DouglasA good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an...
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Wake Up and Dream
as Lt. CommanderAided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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Ride, Kelly, Ride
as Bob MartinA jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.
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Touchdown!
as HarriganFootball coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
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The Old Swimmin' Hole
as Doc ElliottTeenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father...
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The False Madonna
as Peter AngelA woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
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Sweater Girl
as Police Lt. McGillCollege students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put...
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The Searching Wind
as CarterWith a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946...
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The Man Who Dared
as D. A. Darrell TysonA crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show...
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The Leather Pushers
as J.R. StevensA shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an...
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The Secret Call
as Bob BarnesThe Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.)...
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Sailor's Lady
as Capt. RoscoeSailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby...
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Think It Over
as Fire Inspector WilsonA gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
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as Victor 'Doc' FullerA Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a...
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