John Brown (actor)
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Brown on an episode of The Life of Riley television series, with Jackie Gleason, 1949
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| Born |
John H. Brown April 4, 1904 Hull, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | May 16, 1957 (aged 53) Hollywood, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1932-1957 |
John Brown (April 4, 1904 - May 16, 1957) was an English radio and film actor.
Brown was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England.
Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley, played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show), "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, and "Thorny" the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Brown appeared in some notable films: Strangers on a Train (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, uncredited), and The Wild One (1953); he supplied the voice of "Ro-Man" in the 1953 cult science fiction B-film Robot Monster.
In early television, Brown was the second actor (after Hal March) to play "Harry Morton", the next-door neighbor of George Burns and Gracie Allen in their situation comedy show, opposite Bea Benaderet; his tenure on the series lasted six months, and he was replaced by Fred Clark in June 1951.
In 1952, Brown became another victim of the Hollywood blacklist.
Brown died of a heart attack on May 16, 1957, in West Hollywood, California, while en route to his doctor's office.
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