Russ Brown
Actor
- Born
- May 30, 1892 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- October 19, 1964 (age 72)
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Russell Brown (May 30, 1892; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 19, 1964; Englewood, New Jersey) was an American Tony Award-winning actor of stage and film. Brown, a stage actor for decades, is best remembered by audiences as Captain Brackett in South Pacific (which he repeated in the movie version) and for his performances as 'Benny Van Buren' in the stage/film version of Damn Yankees in 1958, and the following year as park caretaker George Lemon in the classic courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder (1959). For his stage performance in "Damn Yankees!", he earned Broadway's Tony Award in 1956, as did actor Ray Walston, actress Gwen Verdon and her choreographer husband Bob Fosse, among others, all for the same Tony Award-winning musical.
Known for
Anatomy of a Murder
July 1, 1959
Advise & Consent
June 6, 1962
South Pacific
March 19, 1958
It Happened to Jane
May 24, 1959
The Cardinal
December 12, 1963
Damn Yankees
September 26, 1958
Moulin Rouge
January 10, 1934
Millionaire Playboy
March 14, 1940
Sweet Surrender
December 1, 1935
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
March 13, 1987
A Laugh or Two
February 4, 1928
Air Parade
January 14, 1938
Acting15
- 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1963The Cardinal as Dr. Heller
- 1962Advise & Consent as Night Watchman Mike
- 1959Anatomy of a Murder as George Lemon
- 1959It Happened to Jane as Uncle Otis
- 1958Damn Yankees as Benny Van Buren
- 1958South Pacific as Capt. J.M. Brackett, USN
- 1940Millionaire Playboy as Mr. Bob Norman
- 1938Air Parade as Mr Brittlebottle
- 1936Boy, Oh Boy