Harry Brown

Screenwriter

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Also Known As

Harry Peter Brown, Harry D. Brown

Birth Place

Portland, Maine, USA

Born

April 30, 1917

Died

November 02, 1986

Cause of Death

Emphysema

Biography

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A novelist and scriptwriter whose "A Walk in the Sun" was adapted for the screen by Lewis Milestone in 1945 to great acclaim, Brown earned an Academy Award nomination for another war-themed film, "The Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949). He shared an Oscar with co-screenwriter Michael Wilson for George Stevens' "A Place in the Sun" (1951). Brown worked on several other notable films, including "Ei...

Filmography

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City of Bad Men (1953)

Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Young Man With Ideas (1952)

Hit Parade of 1951 (1950)

Port of New York (1949)

Ringside (1949)

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Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Find Me And Stop Me

Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) They Said I Was Looking In Their Windows

Notes

Served in the army during WWII.

Biography

A novelist and scriptwriter whose "A Walk in the Sun" was adapted for the screen by Lewis Milestone in 1945 to great acclaim, Brown earned an Academy Award nomination for another war-themed film, "The Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949). He shared an Oscar with co-screenwriter Michael Wilson for George Stevens' "A Place in the Sun" (1951). Brown worked on several other notable films, including "Eight Iron Men" (adapted from his play), the Bette Davis vehicle "The Virgin Queen" (1955) and "D-Day the Sixth of June" (1956). His last screenplay was for the crime comedy "Ocean's Eleven" (1960).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

City of Bad Men (1953)

Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Young Man With Ideas (1952)

Hit Parade of 1951 (1950)

Port of New York (1949)

Ringside (1949)

Massacre River (1949)

Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

Joe, piano player

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer: Boris Karloff (1949)

Medical examiner

A Dangerous Profession (1949)

The Noose Hangs High (1948)

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Feudin', Fussin and A-Fightin' (1948)

Mexican Hayride (1948)

Shoot to Kill (1947)

Little Giant (1946)

Blonde Alibi (1946)

Lawless Breed (1946)

Sanford Witherspoon

Inside Job (1946)

Little Miss Big (1946)

The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Her Adventurous Night (1946)

The Killers (1946)

Man Alive (1945)

Show boat character

Spellbound (1945)

Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945)

Papa Mike Rafferty

Marine Raiders (1944)

Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)

Charley Roberts

Fast and Furious (1939)

The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)

Our Daily Bread (1934)

The Heart of Jennifer (1915)

Writer (Feature Film)

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

Three Weeks of Love (1965)

Ocean's Eleven (1960)

The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)

The Deep Six (1958)

Between Heaven and Hell (1956)

D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)

Many Rivers to Cross (1955)

The Virgin Queen (1955)

All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)

The Sniper (1952)

Eight Iron Men (1952)

Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Only the Valiant (1951)

Apache Drums (1951)

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)

The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1950)

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Wake of the Red Witch (1948)

Arch of Triumph (1948)

The Other Love (1947)

The True Glory (1945)

Music (Feature Film)

Forever Yours (1945)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)

Screenplay clerk

Life Events

1945

Screenwriting debut, "The True Glory"

1960

Final screenplay "Ocean's 11"

Videos

Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Find Me And Stop Me Digging into the psycho material now, Arthur Franz as Eddie (title character) seems to know he’s finding it too easy to get away with killing women with his rifle, makes a cry for help then goes after sexy May (Marlo Dwyer), whom he met the night of the first murder, in The Sniper, 1952.

Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) They Said I Was Looking In Their Windows Big set piece by director Edward Dmytryk, Ralph Peters the snarky cop at the podium as suspects John Pickard, Byron Foulger and Ralph Smiley are shredded, then Richard Kiley’s first scene as shrink Kent, discouraging chief cop Anderson (Frank Faylen) and Lt. Kafka (Adolphe Menjou) in The Sniper, 1952.

Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Getting Tough With Women Kind of chance meeting at San Francisco Chinese joint, cop Kafka (Adolphe Menjou) meets getting-jaded criminologist Kent (Richard Kiley) who holds forth what we already know is spot-on reasoning about the thus-far unsuspected perp, in director Edward Dmytryk’s The Sniper, 1952.

Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Young Fool! Continuing the initial solo scenes profiling the title character, Arthur Franz as troubled Eddie, whom we’ve seen taking aim at strange women with his rifle, cruising his neighborhood, Danni Sue Nolan the cashier at the soda shop, in The Sniper, 1952, from Harry Brown’s script and story by Edna & Edward Anhalt.

Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) I Think It's Brandy After burning himself on the stove in a bid for attention, and mostly failing, we join Eddie (Arthur Franz, title character) at work for the first time, a delivery man (working on location) in San Francisco, Marie Windsor his benevolent and alluring customer, in Edward Dmytryk’s The Sniper, 1952.

Sniper, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) It'll Turn Out To Be Her Boyfriend Second appearance for Adolphe Menjou as Lt. Kafka and Gerald Mohr as Sgt. Ferris, after the crime scene, now at the home of the victim, terse chat even as the perp Eddie (Arthur Franz) calculates whether he should deliver the cleaning for the gal he murdered, in The Sniper, 1952, shot on location around Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, Paul Marion the debriefed boyfriend.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Eee-O-11 Jerry Velasco is one of the uncredited accompanists for ex-ballplayer, WWII vet and garbage man Josh (Sammy Davis Jr.), knocking out specialty tune by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and visited by fellow vet Vince (Buddy Lester) about the heist their buddy Frank Sinatra is planning, in the original Ocean's Eleven, 1960.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Your Mother Hello Among the best scenes carried by actors other-than Frank Sinatra (title character Danny Ocean), as WWII buddies Sam (Dean Martin) and Jimmy (Peter Lawford) catch up, the latter chatting with his mother (Ilka Chase), considering the heist, before the ringleader joins, in the original Ocean's Eleven, 1960.

Place In The Sun, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) It's An Eastman Director George Stevens’ opening, re-setting Book Two of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, published in 1925, in current times, introducing Montgomery Clift, whom we will learn is George Eastman, in A Place In The Sun, 1951, with Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters.

Place In The Sun, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Misspent Youth Not the first encounter but the first chat, sparked by his not-faked pool shooting, between factory worker George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) and jet-set Angela (Elizabeth Taylor), with her host, his uncle and employer (Herbert Heyes) cutting-in, in George Stevens' A Place In The Sun, 1951.

Place In The Sun, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) You're Not In The Same Boat Director George Stevens’ details the progress of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), now employed by his factory-owning relatives, pining for socialite Elizabeth Taylor and, though warned not to fraternize, getting friendly with co-worker Alice (Shelley Winters), in A Place In The Sun. 1951.

Place In The Sun, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Aren't You Happy With Me? Enormous music and close-ups, as working-class George (Montgomery Clift) and society girl Angela (Elizabeth Taylor) realize they've fallen, his pregnant girlfriend among the things he's not mentioning, in George Stevens' A Place In The Sun, 1951.

Sands of Iwo Jima - (Original Trailer) During World War II a marine sergeant must turn his recruits into fighting men in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), directed by Allan Dwan and starring John Wayne.

Wake of the Red Witch - (Re-issue Trailer) A captain (John Wayne) fights a Dutch shipping magnate for a treasure and the heart of a beautiful woman in Wake of the Red Witch (1948).

Virgin Queen, The - (Black-and-white, pan-and-scan trailer) Sir Walter Raleigh wins favor with the Queen (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World in The Virgin Queen (1955).

Many Rivers to Cross - (Original Trailer) Eleanor Parker pursues trapper Robert Taylor through 18th Century Kentucky in the frontier comedy Many Rivers To Cross (1955).

All the Brothers Were Valiant - (Original Trailer) Brothers on a whaling schooner become romantic rivals in All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953) starring Robert Taylor.

Place in the Sun, A - (Original Trailer) Montgomery Clift and ELizabeth Taylor star in A Place in the Sun, an adaptation of the Theodore Dreiser novel. An American Tragedy.

Ocean's Eleven (1960) - (Original Trailer) The original movie and the ultimate "Rat Pack" adventure, Ocean's Eleven (1960) starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

Bibliography

Notes

Served in the army during WWII.

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