Johnny Mack Brown

Acting · 0.6 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

Legends of the West

1992

Born to the West

19374.8

Triggerman

19488.0

The Silver Bullet

19426.0

Desert Phantom

19368.0

Colorado Ambush

19517.5

Lawless Land

19375.4

Oklahoma Justice

19519.0

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

1994

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs

200010.0

Crazy House

19436.0

Land of Liberty

19399.0

Marrying Widows

19348.0

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

19346.0

Apache Uprising

19656.4

Belle of the Nineties

19346.1

Ride 'Em Cowboy

19416.0

Hell Town

1937

Requiem for a Gunfighter

19657.5

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

19768.5

Bad Man from Red Butte

19405.8

Man from the Black Hills

19529.0

A Woman of Affairs

19286.5

Wells Fargo

19375.5

The Masked Rider

19417.2

Female

19336.3

The Oregon Trail

19397.5

The Crooked Trail

19365.7

The Secret Six

19315.6

The Law Comes to Gunsight

19476.7

Guns in the Dark

19377.0

Short Grass

19506.5

Cross Streets

19346.0

Coquette

19295.9

Rustlers of Red Dog

19358.5

Three on a Honeymoon

19347.0

Law and Order

19408.0

Son of a Sailor

19336.0

Wild West Days

19378.0

Back Trail

19488.0

Square Crooks

19288.0

The Courageous Avenger

19355.0

Forever Yours

19457.0

Gun Smoke

19455.4

Range Law

19449.0

Between Men

19356.3

The Play Girl

19289.0

The Last Flight

19316.5

Montana Moon

19304.7

Outlaws of Stampede Pass

19437.0

Stagecoach Buckaroo

19427.5

Fighting With Kit Carson

19336.5

Mockery

19276.9

Cheyenne Roundup

19437.0

Boss of Bullion City

19406.0

Billy the Kid

19304.7

The Sheriff of Medicine Bow

19487.0

Flames

19324.3

The Fair Co-Ed

19276.7

Range Justice

19497.0

Silver Range

194610.0

The Great Meadow

19316.0

70,000 Witnesses

19325.7

Riders of Pasco Basin

19405.5

The Single Standard

19295.9

The Bugle Call

192710.0

Man from Montana

194110.0

The Old Chisholm Trail

19427.7

The Gentleman from Texas

19466.0

Jazz Heaven

19295.9

The Navajo Trail

194510.0

Canyon Ambush

19526.5

Drifting Along

194610.0

The Lost Trail

19457.0

Our Dancing Daughters

19286.3

Chip of the Flying U

19397.5

Desperate Trails

19395.7

Rogue of the Range

19365.0

Frontier Feud

19457.0

Trail of Vengeance

19379.0

Law Men

19445.4

The Ghost Rider

19438.0

Raiders of San Joaquin

19437.0

Valley of Fear

19478.0

Rawhide Rangers

19416.7

Raiders of the South

19476.5

Frontier Agent

19488.0

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

19409.0

Oklahoma Frontier

19396.0

The Valiant

19296.1

The Lone Star Trail

19436.0

Montana Desperado

19517.0

Valley of the Lawless

19367.5

Boothill Brigade

19375.8

Trigger Fingers

19466.5

Raiders of the Border

194410.0

Shadows on the Range

194610.0

Texas City

19526.5

Law of the Panhandle

1950

Arizona Cyclone

19417.0

Under Arizona Skies

194610.0

Land of the Outlaws

19447.0

Man from Sonora

19519.0

Starlit Days at the Lido

19355.7

Law of the Range

19416.5

Trails End

194910.0

Saturday's Millions

19337.0

Stampede

19496.3

Deep in the Heart of Texas

19427.5

Hidden Danger

19487.0

The Fighting Ranger

19489.0

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground

19439.0

Crossed Trails

19487.0

The Gambling Terror

19376.0

Hurricane

19296.5

The Vanishing Frontier

19338.0

Stranger from Santa Fe

19458.5

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie

19416.5

Land of the Lawless

19477.0

Gun Talk

19478.0

Flaming Frontiers

19385.1

West of Wyoming

19506.5

Flame of the West

19457.0

Prairie Express

1947

Trailing Danger

19479.0

Bar-Z Bad Men

19374.4

Overland Trails

19489.0

Law of the Valley

19446.0

Law of the West

19497.0

Partners of the Trail

19445.0

Whistling Hills

19517.0

Over the Border

19508.0

Western Renegades

19496.5

Son of Roaring Dan

19408.0

Gunning for Justice

194810.0

A Lady of Chance

19286.5

The Stranger From Pecos

19437.0

West of El Dorado

194910.0

A Lawman Is Born

19374.5

Against the Law

19345.3

The Divine Woman

19287.2

Blazing Bullets

19517.0

Pony Post

19408.0

Soft Living

19289.0

Six Gun Gospel

19435.3

Dead Man's Trail

19527.0

Little Joe, the Wrangler

19427.5

Ghost Guns

19446.1

West of the Rio Grande

19449.0

Hollywood Halfbacks

19319.0

Slide, Kelly, Slide

19278.0

The Texas Kid

19435.8

Lasca of the Rio Grande

193110.0

The Marshal's Daughter

19534.3

Everyman's Law

19368.0

Branded a Coward

19356.0

West of Carson City

19405.5

After Midnight

19278.5

Fighting Bill Fargo

19417.0

Outlaw Gold

195010.0

St. Louis Woman

19346.0

Texas Lawmen

19517.0

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

194210.0

Six Gun Mesa

19509.5

Undercover Man

19367.0

Annapolis

19285.5

Undertow

19306.5

The Haunted Mine

194610.0