Johnny Mack Brown

Acting · 0.5 popularity

Age

121

Movies

174

Born: September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974
From: Dothan, Alabama, USA

Biography

An All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown chose the silver screen over the green grass of the football field when he graduated. Signed to a contract with MGM in 1926, Brown debuted in Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927) with William Haines in a film about - baseball. This was followed by The Bugle Call (1927), which starred the fading Jackie Coogan. In 1928 he appeared in the last Norma Shearer silent film, A Lady of Chance (1928). After that, he worked with Greta Garbo, Marion Davies and Mary Pickford. His muscular good looks only carried him so far in films, however, and by 1930 he had yet to find his place. At MGM Clark Gable was taking the roles that Brown was up for, so he went into a western for director King Vidor, Billy the Kid (1930). While Vidor did not want him for the part to begin with, the picture was successful; however, Brown's career at MGM soon ended. By 1933 he was still making westerns, but they were for low-rung studios like Mascot. More westerns at even lower-rung Supreme Pictures followed, as well as serials like Wild West Days (1937) at Universal. In 1943 Brown took his boots over to Monogram Pictures, where he made over 60 westerns. He started off as "Nevada Jack McKenzie" in the Rough Riders series, but the name soon changed to Johnny. As with most of the early cowboy stars, he was a hero to millions of young children and consistently among the top ten money-makers in westerns from 1942-50. The bubble burst, though, just as it did for Allan Lane, in 1953, as the days of the "B" western came to an end.

Works

174 films

Malay Nights

19329.0

Flashing Guns

19477.0

Code of the Saddle

19477.0

The Bounty Killer

19656.0

It's Showtime

19767.5

Border Bandits

19467.0

Triggerman

19488.0

Legends of the West

1992

Desert Phantom

19368.0

Born to the West

19374.8

The Silver Bullet

19426.0

Apache Uprising

19656.4

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

1994

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

200010.0

Wells Fargo

19375.5

The Secret Six

19315.6

Marrying Widows

19348.0

The Oregon Trail

19397.5

Hell Town

1937

Crazy House

19436.0

Cross Streets

19346.0

Female

19336.3

Land of Liberty

19399.0

Requiem for a Gunfighter

19657.5

A Woman of Affairs

19286.5

Belle of the Nineties

19346.1

Man from the Black Hills

19529.0

Our Dancing Daughters

19286.3

Colorado Ambush

19517.5

Oklahoma Justice

19519.0

Gun Smoke

19455.4

Law and Order

19408.0

Lawless Land

19375.4

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

19346.0

Drifting Along

194610.0

Montana Moon

19304.7

The Crooked Trail

19365.7

Bad Man from Red Butte

19405.8

The Law Comes to Gunsight

19476.7

The Masked Rider

19417.2

Son of a Sailor

19336.0

Short Grass

19506.5

Ride 'Em Cowboy

19416.0

Forever Yours

19457.0

Coquette

19295.9

Range Law

19449.0

Stranger from Santa Fe

19458.5

The Great Meadow

19316.0

Square Crooks

19288.0

The Play Girl

19289.0

The Last Flight

19316.5

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

19768.5

Wild West Days

19378.0

The Old Chisholm Trail

19427.7

The Single Standard

19295.9

Rustlers of Red Dog

19358.5

Boss of Bullion City

19406.0

Guns in the Dark

19377.0

Flames

19324.3

Three on a Honeymoon

19347.0

Billy the Kid

19304.7

70,000 Witnesses

19325.7

Back Trail

19488.0

The Navajo Trail

194510.0

Stagecoach Buckaroo

19427.5

Range Justice

19497.0

Mockery

19276.9

Canyon Ambush

19526.5

Raiders of San Joaquin

19437.0

The Bugle Call

192710.0

Law of the Range

19416.5

The Courageous Avenger

19355.0

Fighting With Kit Carson

19336.5

The Vanishing Frontier

19338.0

Cheyenne Roundup

19437.0

Hidden Danger

19487.0

Law Men

19445.4

Valley of the Lawless

19367.5

Lasca of the Rio Grande

193110.0

Outlaws of Stampede Pass

19437.0

Rawhide Rangers

19416.7

Arizona Cyclone

19417.0

Silver Range

194610.0

Between Men

19356.3

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

19409.0

West of El Dorado

194910.0

Rogue of the Range

19365.0

Shadows on the Range

194610.0

The Texas Kid

19435.8

Jazz Heaven

19295.9

Law of the West

19497.0

Gun Talk

19478.0

Trigger Fingers

19466.5

Texas City

19526.5

The Ghost Rider

19438.0

Oklahoma Frontier

19396.0

Chip of the Flying U

19397.5

The Sheriff of Medicine Bow

19487.0

Saturday's Millions

19337.0

Raiders of the Border

194410.0

Everyman's Law

19368.0

Under Arizona Skies

194610.0

The Valiant

19296.1

The Fair Co-Ed

19276.7

Slide, Kelly, Slide

19278.0

Land of the Outlaws

19447.0

Dead Man's Trail

19527.0

Trail of Vengeance

19379.0

Partners of the Trail

19445.0

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

19416.5

Man from Montana

194110.0

The Fighting Ranger

19489.0

Bar-Z Bad Men

19374.4

Little Joe, the Wrangler

19427.5

Overland Trails

19489.0

Flame of the West

19457.0

The Lone Star Trail

19436.0

St. Louis Woman

19346.0

Desperate Trails

19395.7

Starlit Days at the Lido

19355.7

Whistling Hills

19517.0

Valley of Fear

19478.0

Boothill Brigade

19375.8

The Gentleman from Texas

19466.0

The Marshal's Daughter

19534.3

The Gambling Terror

19376.0

A Lawman Is Born

19374.5

Flaming Frontiers

19385.1

Hurricane

19296.5

Hollywood Halfbacks

19319.0

Man from Sonora

19519.0

Deep in the Heart of Texas

19427.5

Against the Law

19345.3

Law of the Panhandle

1950

The Stranger From Pecos

19437.0

Riders of Pasco Basin

19405.5

Raiders of the South

19476.5

Blazing Bullets

19517.0

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

194210.0

Frontier Agent

19488.0

Law of the Valley

19446.0

Crossed Trails

19487.0

The Lost Trail

19457.0

Gunning for Justice

194810.0

Over the Border

19508.0

Trailing Danger

19479.0

Stampede

19496.3

West of Carson City

19405.5

Frontier Feud

19457.0

Son of Roaring Dan

19408.0

West of Wyoming

19506.5

Branded a Coward

19356.0

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground

19439.0

Ghost Guns

19446.1

Montana Desperado

19517.0

Prairie Express

1947

Pony Post

19408.0

Land of the Lawless

19477.0

A Lady of Chance

19286.5

Fighting Bill Fargo

19417.0

Outlaw Gold

195010.0

West of the Rio Grande

19449.0

Western Renegades

19496.5

Trails End

194910.0

After Midnight

19278.5

The Divine Woman

19287.2

Six Gun Mesa

19509.5

Six Gun Gospel

19435.3

Soft Living

19289.0

Undertow

19306.5

Annapolis

19285.5

Texas Lawmen

19517.0

Undercover Man

19367.0

The Haunted Mine

194610.0