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.
Charles D. Brown Biography / Wiki
| Name | Charles D. Brown |
| Also Know | Chas. D. Brown, C.D. Brown, Charles Brown |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1887-07-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 61 |
| Deathday | 1948-11-25 |
Charles D. Brown Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Apology for Murder | Ward McGee | 1945-09-27 | Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman’s young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit h… |
| In This Corner | Victor ‘Doc’ Fuller | 1948-09-20 | A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match…. |
| Know Your Money | George D. Waldron | 1940-01-27 | This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government’s attempt to curb counte… |
| The Old Swimmin’ Hole | Doc Elliott | 1940-10-21 | Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the wido… |
| I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes | Inspector Stevens | 1948-05-23 | Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn’t commit…. |
| Exposed | Steve Conway | 1938-11-05 | A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted…. |
| The Man Who Dared | D. A. Darrell Tyson | 1946-05-30 | A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based… |
| Buyer Beware | Police Insp. William C. Thomas (uncredited) | 1940-08-17 | This entry in MGM’s “Crime Does Not Pay” series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise…. |
| The Way of a Maid | Gordon Witherspoon | 1921-11-30 | A silent film comedy…. |
| Follow Me Quietly | Police Insp. Mulvaney | 1949-07-07 | 1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as “the Judge” who kills his victims on rainy nights…. |
| Night Editor | Crane Stewart | 1946-03-29 | A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall…. |
| Minesweeper | Commander Lane | 1943-11-10 | A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is… |
| Smashing the Money Ring | Parker | 1939-10-21 | T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop…. |
| The Dance of Life | Lefty Miller | 1929-08-16 | A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren’t having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save… |
| Kid Nightingale | Charles Paxton | 1939-11-03 | A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter…. |
| The Leather Pushers | J.R. Stevens | 1940-09-13 | A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle pr… |
| Eve Knew Her Apples | Joe Gordon | 1945-04-12 | Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show’s summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She r… |
| Jam Session | Raymond Stuart | 1944-04-13 | A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career…. |
| Railroaded! | Police Captain MacTaggart | 1947-09-25 | A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innoc… |
| Fingers at the Window | Police Inspector Gallagher | 1942-04-22 | In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic…. |
| Merton of the Movies | Jeff Baird | 1947-10-11 | In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert… |
| Think It Over | Fire Inspector Wilson | 1938-07-24 | A gang of ‘professional torches’ burn down stores for the insurance money…. |
| The False Madonna | Peter Angel | 1931-12-05 | A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man…. |
| Ride, Kelly, Ride | Bob Martin | 1941-02-07 | Jockey (Stephens) struggles against gamblers with the help of stable trainer (Pallette) and horse onwer’s daughter (Quigley)…. |
| Just Before Dawn | Insp. Burns | 1946-03-07 | In the 7th film of the “Crime Doctor” series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injecti… |
| Flight to Fame | Major Loy | 1938-10-12 | An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray…. |
| Let’s Live Again | Psychiatrist | 1948-02-27 | The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother…. |
| Brother Orchid | Brother Wren | 1940-06-07 | When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel… |
| The Senator Was Indiscreet | Dinty | 1947-12-31 | A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary … |
| Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman | Mike Dawson | 1947-03-01 | A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life…. |
| Wolf of New York | Nolan | 1940-01-23 | A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector…. |
| Devil Pays Off | Capt. Jonathan Hunt | 1941-11-10 | A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon’s dealings with the enemy…. |
| Undercover Maisie | Captain Mead | 1947-03-01 | Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to… |
| Disbarred | Jackson | 1939-01-06 | The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to… |
| Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry | Click Donovan | 1937-11-25 | Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to t… |
| The Racket Man | Editor Clark | 1944-01-18 | A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by p… |
| Gold Diggers of 1937 | Hugo (as Chas. D. Brown) | 1936-12-28 | The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by co… |
| Danger Woman | Inspector Pepper | 1946-07-12 | A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband…. |
| The Duke of West Point | Ann’s Father | 1938-12-29 | A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics…. |
| Having Wonderful Crime | Mr. Winslow | 1945-04-12 | Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O’Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician…. |
| Sunbonnet Sue | Father Hurley | 1945-10-05 | Set in New York’s Lower East Side during the Gay ’90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner’s dau… |
| Speed to Burn | Pop Williams | 1938-06-07 | Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse…. |
| Forgotten Girls | Editor Linton | 1940-03-15 | A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother’s lover…. |
| Touchdown! | Harrigan | 1931-11-15 | Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs…. |
| The Big Sleep | Norris the Butler | 1946-08-23 | Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the comple… |
| The Killers | Packy Robinson – Ole’s Manager | 1946-08-28 | Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called “the Swede”. When the killers find the Swede, he’s expecting them and doesn’t put up a fight. Si… |
| Mr. Moto in Danger Island | Capt. Thomas Castle | 1939-04-07 | In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world’s jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find th… |
| In Fast Company | Father Donovan | 1946-06-22 | The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers…. |
| Wake Up and Dream | Lt. Commander | 1946-12-02 | Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother…. |
| The Crowd Roars | Bill Thorne | 1938-08-06 | A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss’s daughter, although she doesn’t know what daddy do… |
| The Shopworn Angel | McGonigle | 1938-07-15 | During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car … |
| The Secret Call | Bob Barnes | 1931-07-24 | The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgr… |
| The Last Crooked Mile | Dietrich, Bank President | 1946-08-09 | A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow…. |
| The Ice Follies of 1939 | Barney | 1939-03-10 | Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home,… |
| International Lady | Tetlow | 1941-10-16 | Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a… |
| Pier 13 | Police Captain Blake | 1940-08-08 | A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket…. |
| Barefoot Boy | Calvin Whittaker | 1938-08-03 | A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks…. |
| The Searching Wind | Carter | 1946-08-09 | With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle’s 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Euro… |
| Algiers | Max | 1938-01-16 | Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko became a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. Fren… |
| Inside Story | J.B. Douglas | 1939-03-10 | A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm….. |
| On Our Merry Way | Mr. Sadd | 1948-02-03 | Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the … |
| Island in the Sky | Inspector Whitehead | 1938-04-01 | A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney’s office…. |
| Glamour Boy | Martin Carmichael | 1941-12-05 | Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living … |
| Charlie Chan in Reno | Police Chief King | 1939-06-16 | Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specialize… |
| He Married His Wife | Detective | 1940-01-19 | Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to … |
| Sweater Girl | Police Lt. McGill | 1942-07-13 | College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school’s big show…. |
| Up the River | Warden Harris | 1938-12-09 | A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently… |
| Little Accident | Jeff Collins | 1939-10-26 | A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her…. |
| The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | McCarthy | 1946-08-19 | Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. S… |
| Secret Command | James Thane | 1944-07-30 | Secret Command features Pat O’Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O’BRIEN goes to work a… |
| Roxie Hart | Charles E. Murdock | 1942-02-20 | A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was j… |
| Destroyer | Doctor, finding Boley unfit for further sea duty | 1943-08-19 | Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the c… |
| Reaching for the Sun | Johnson | 1941-05-01 | Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line…. |
| The Road to Reno | Jim | 1931-09-25 | Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children – daughter Lee and son Jeff – who are in their early 20’s. In spite of the fact that… |
| I Walk Alone | Lt. Hollaran (uncredited) | 1947-12-31 | Bootleggers on the lamb Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a … |
| Maisie Was a Lady | ‘Doctor’ in Sideshow (Uncredited) | 1941-01-10 | Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family’s new maid. Maisie soon finds … |
| Tall, Dark and Handsome | District Attorney | 1941-01-24 | Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook…. |
| Santa Fe Trail | Major Sumner | 1940-12-20 | As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign… |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Wilkie | 1940-03-15 | Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl… |
| Tomorrow Is Forever | Immigration Officer | 1946-02-20 | In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John’s son and eventually marries her k… |
| Notorious | Judge (uncredited) | 1946-08-21 | In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war c… |
| City of Chance | District Attorney | 1940-01-13 | Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home…. |
| Babes in Arms | Larry Randall (uncredited) | 1939-10-10 | Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wa… |
| Florian | New York Police Lt. | 1940-06-05 | Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses…. |
| The Fighting Seabees | Capt. Squires (uncredited) | 1944-01-27 | Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Na… |
| Bombardier | Officer at Briefing | 1943-05-14 | A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precisio… |
| The Hoodlum Saint | Ed Collner – Chronicle Reporter | 1946-04-04 | A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it’s much more difficult to find work than he expected. … |
| A Lady Takes a Chance | Dr. G.W. Humboldt | 1943-08-19 | A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors…. |
| Tell No Tales | Police Lt. Brandt (uncredited) | 1939-06-12 | A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication…. |
| I Take This Woman | Police Lieutenant (uncredited) | 1940-02-02 | On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker’s suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic i… |
| Swing Shift Maisie | Curtis Glenby (Uncredited) | 1943-10-01 | Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot “Breezy” McLaughlin. Bre… |
| Johnny Apollo | Sergeant Putting Pinch on Mickey and Johnny (uncredited) | 1940-04-19 | Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father’s releas… |
| Boom Town | U.S. Marshal Stebbins (uncredited) | 1940-08-30 | McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it a… |
| Sailor’s Lady | Capt. Roscoe | 1940-07-05 | Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is acci… |
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