Clarence Brown

Biography

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, gi…

Directed

1. National Velvet (1945) — Director
2. The Yearling (1946) — Director
3. Anna Karenina (1935) — Director
4. Flesh and the Devil (1926) — Director
5. Wife vs. Secretary (1936) — Director
6. Anna Christie (1930) — Director
7. The Eagle (1925) — Director
8. Intruder in the Dust (1949) — Director
9. A Free Soul (1931) — Director
10. Possessed (1931) — Director
11. Come Live with Me (1941) — Director
12. The Human Comedy (1943) — Director
13. Angels in the Outfield (1951) — Director
14. The Rains Came (1939) — Director
15. Edison, the Man (1940) — Director
16. A Woman of Affairs (1928) — Director
17. Of Human Hearts (1938) — Director
18. Sadie McKee (1934) — Director
19. Conquest (1937) — Director
20. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) — Director
21. Plymouth Adventure (1952) — Director
22. Night Flight (1933) — Director
23. Romance (1930) — Director
24. They Met in Bombay (1941) — Director
25. Chained (1934) — Director
26. Idiot's Delight (1939) — Director
27. Emma (1932) — Director
28. The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) — Director
29. The Trail of '98 (1928) — Director
30. To Please a Lady (1950) — Director
31. Letty Lynton (1932) — Director
32. Inspiration (1931) — Director
33. The Goose Woman (1925) — Director
34. Song of Love (1947) — Director
35. The Signal Tower (1924) — Director
36. It's a Big Country (1951) — Director
37. Smouldering Fires (1925) — Director
38. The Light in the Dark (1922) — Director
39. Ah, Wilderness! (1935) — Director
40. Wonder of Women (1929) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Twilight Zone (1985) — (segment "Need to Know")
2. Dead Heat (1988) — Harry Latham
3. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) — Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
4. Possessed (1931) — Man on Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
5. The Signal Tower (1924) — Switch Man
6. Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) — Self
7. Navy Blues (1929) — Roller Coaster Rider
8. Fats Domino Live from Austin Texas (1986) — Batterie