Acting

Russ Brown

Russ Brown è noto soprattutto per The Dick Powell Show e Vacation Playhouse. Russ Brown è nato il 30 maggio 1892. Russ Brown è morto/a il 19 ottobre 1964 all’età di 72 anni.

Nascita: 30 maggio 1892
Luogo di nascita: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Morte: 19 ottobre 1964 (72 anni)

Biografia

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Russell Brown (May 30, 1892; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 19, 1964; Englewood, New Jersey) was an American Tony Award-winning actor of stage and film. Brown, a stage actor for decades, is best remembered by audiences as Captain Brackett in South Pacific (which he repeated in the movie version) and for his performances as 'Benny Van Buren' in the stage/film version of Damn Yankees in 1958, and the following year as park caretaker George Lemon in the classic courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder (1959). For his stage performance in "Damn Yankees!", he earned Broadway's Tony Award in 1956, as did actor Ray Walston, actress Gwen Verdon and her choreographer husband Bob Fosse, among others, all for the same Tony Award-winning musical.