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Rowland Brown is a Director, Scriptwriter and Additional Dialogue American born on 6 november 1900 at Akron (USA)

Rowland Brown

Rowland Brown
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 november 1900 at Akron (USA)
Death 6 may 1963 (at 62 years) at Costa Mesa (USA)

Rowland Brown est un scénariste et réalisateur américain né le 6 novembre 1897 à Akron, Ohio (États-Unis), mort le 6 mai 1963 à Costa Mesa (États-Unis).

Best films

What Price Hollywood? (1932)
(Writer)

Usually with

John Wray
John Wray
(2 films)
Oscar Apfel
Oscar Apfel
(3 films)
Henry Kolker
Henry Kolker
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rowland Brown (14 films)

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Director

The Devil Is a Sissy, 1h32
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, Rowland Brown, John Lee Mahin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter, Katharine Alexander, Gene Lockhart
Rating66% 3.3432253.3432253.3432253.3432253.343225
Claude 'Limey' Pierce (Freddie Bartholomew) is a wealthy lonely young English boy attending a New York public school. He is befriended by slum kid James 'Gig' Stevens (Mickey Rooney), son of a recently executed gangster. Robert 'Buck' Murphy (Jackie Cooper) is a middle-class gang leader with whom Rooney frequently clashes.
Blood Money, 1h5
Directed by Rowland Brown
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Judith Anderson, Chick Chandler, George Bancroft, Lucille Ball, Frances Dee, Etienne Girardot
Rating66% 3.3409753.3409753.3409753.3409753.340975
L'histoire est celle d'un esclave tortueux libéré sous caution (joué par George Bancroft), de son amante de longue date (Judith Anderson) et d'un femme mondaine à la recherche de sensations fortes qui attire son attention (Frances Dee).
Hell's Highway, 1h2
Directed by Rowland Brown, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Richard Dix, Tom Brown, Rochelle Hudson, C. Henry Gordon, Oscar Apfel, Stanley Fields
Rating67% 3.390033.390033.390033.390033.39003
The film centers around brutal conditions in a southern prison.
Quick Millions, 1h12
Directed by Rowland Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers, Bob Burns, Bob Burns, John Wray
Rating63% 3.1507053.1507053.1507053.1507053.150705
Devenu riche après avoir participé à quelques rackets, Daniel Raymond, un chauffeur de camion, désire alors épouser Dorothy Stone, une jeune femme riche dont il est amoureux. Mais elle le repousse car elle en aime un autre. Il projette alors l’enlèvement de Dorothy.

Scriptwriter

Kansas City Confidential, 1h39
Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam
Roles Story
Rating72% 3.647213.647213.647213.647213.64721
A nameless, ruthless man (Preston Foster) who identifies himself as Mr. Big is timing to the minute the arrival of two trucks. One is an armored car routinely picking up bags containing lots of money from a bank. The other truck delivers to a flower shop next door. The man’s timing shows that, for a very few minutes, the schedule of both trucks coincidentally parks them next to each other. He is casing the armored car. He needs a gang to help him rob it. He selects three men for the gang -- the addictive gambler Peter Harris (Jack Elam) wanted for murder, gum-chewing thug Boyd Kane (Neville Brand) and the womaniziing Tony Romano (Lee Van Cleef). When interviewing them, he wears a mask so they cannot identify him. He has selected them because each has a reason for fleeing the US. They will fit perfectly into Mr. Big’s complex plan, which appears to be an ordinary robbery but is much more.
Nocturne
Nocturne (1946)
, 1h27
Directed by Edwin L. Marin, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Mabel Paige
Roles Story
Rating64% 3.243133.243133.243133.243133.24313
A Hollywood film composer is found dead. The police think it is suicide but a cop, Joe Warne (Raft), suspects murder. Warne begins looking for "Dolores," a name in a song by the dead man. While investigating, Warne finds out the dead man has had a list of models as girlfriends and that ten of them have a motive for the suspected murder.
Johnny Apollo, 1h34
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan, Charley Grapewin, Lionel Atwill
Rating68% 3.4448553.4448553.4448553.4448553.444855
After his stockbroker father "Pop" Cain is sent to prison for embezzlement of funds, Bob Cain, Jr., after having a falling out with his father, quits college to look for a job, but is unable to find one due to his father's notoriety. When he uses an alias, he finds works, but is then fired because of doing so.
Angels with Dirty Faces, 1h37
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Films about capital punishment, Gangster films
Actors James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Billy Halop
Roles Story
Rating78% 3.9473653.9473653.9473653.9473653.947365
Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Jerry Connolly (Pat O'Brien) are childhood friends who robbed a railroad car as kids. Rocky saved Jerry's life during the chase by pulling him out of the way of a steam train while running from the guards that saw them. Rocky was then caught by the police, but Jerry—who could run faster—escaped. Rocky, after being sent to reform school, grew up to become a notorious gangster, while Jerry became a religious priest who mentored at-risk youth.
The Devil Is a Sissy, 1h32
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, Rowland Brown, John Lee Mahin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter, Katharine Alexander, Gene Lockhart
Roles Story
Rating66% 3.3432253.3432253.3432253.3432253.343225
Claude 'Limey' Pierce (Freddie Bartholomew) is a wealthy lonely young English boy attending a New York public school. He is befriended by slum kid James 'Gig' Stevens (Mickey Rooney), son of a recently executed gangster. Robert 'Buck' Murphy (Jackie Cooper) is a middle-class gang leader with whom Rooney frequently clashes.
Blood Money, 1h5
Directed by Rowland Brown
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Judith Anderson, Chick Chandler, George Bancroft, Lucille Ball, Frances Dee, Etienne Girardot
Roles Writer
Rating66% 3.3409753.3409753.3409753.3409753.340975
L'histoire est celle d'un esclave tortueux libéré sous caution (joué par George Bancroft), de son amante de longue date (Judith Anderson) et d'un femme mondaine à la recherche de sensations fortes qui attire son attention (Frances Dee).
Hell's Highway, 1h2
Directed by Rowland Brown, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Richard Dix, Tom Brown, Rochelle Hudson, C. Henry Gordon, Oscar Apfel, Stanley Fields
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.390033.390033.390033.390033.39003
The film centers around brutal conditions in a southern prison.
State's Attorney, 1h13
Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond, Mary Duncan, Ralph Ince, Albert Conti
Roles Dialogue
Rating65% 3.291243.291243.291243.291243.29124
In this pre-Production Code drama, John Barrymore plays near-alcoholic defense attorney Tom Cardigan who handles a lot of cases for his childhood friend, gangster Valentine "Vanny" Powers (William "Stage" Boyd who used "Stage" as his middle name to distinguish him from the better known William Boyd of Hopalong Cassidy fame).
What Price Hollywood?, 1h28
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, King Baggot, Gregory Ratoff, Wilfred Lucas
Roles Writer
Rating70% 3.544123.544123.544123.544123.54412
Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans (Constance Bennett) is an aspiring actress who has an opportunity to meet film director Maximillan Carey (Lowell Sherman) when she serves him one night. He is very drunk but is charmed by the young girl, and he invites her to a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Adhering to his policy of living life with a sense of humor, he picks her up in a jalopy rather than a limousine and then gives the parking valet the car as a tip.
Quick Millions, 1h12
Directed by Rowland Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers, Bob Burns, Bob Burns, John Wray
Rating63% 3.1507053.1507053.1507053.1507053.150705
Devenu riche après avoir participé à quelques rackets, Daniel Raymond, un chauffeur de camion, désire alors épouser Dorothy Stone, une jeune femme riche dont il est amoureux. Mais elle le repousse car elle en aime un autre. Il projette alors l’enlèvement de Dorothy.