Clarence Brown

Known for DirectingBorn 1890-05-10Died 1987-08-17Clinton, Massachusetts, USA

Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director. After serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the United States Army Air Service during World War I, Brown was given his first co-directing credit (with Tourneur) for The Great Redeemer (1920). Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall. Brown moved to Universal in 1924, and then to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he remained until the mid-1950s. At MGM he was one of the main directors of their major female stars, he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven. Brown was nominated five times for six films (see below) for an Academy Award as a director, but he never received an Oscar. However, he won Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina, starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival. Brown's films gained a total of 38 Academy Award nominations and earned nine Oscars. Brown himself received five Academy Award nominations for six films and in 1949, he won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust. In 1957, Brown was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Brown retired a wealthy man due to his real estate investments, but refused to watch new movies, as he feared they might cause him to restart his career. The Clarence Brown Theater, on the campus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director without a win, with six.Read more

Movies & web series

Fats Domino Live from Austin Texas

The Great Redeemer

Butterfly

The Acquittal

When in Rome

The Twilight Zone

Don't Marry for Money

Kiki

Intruder in the Dust

They Met in Bombay

National Velvet

The Secret Garden

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Letty Lynton

Angels in the Outfield

Flesh and the Devil

Chained

Hollywood Goes to Town

Sadie McKee

Possessed

Song of Love

Navy Blues

The Pride of the Clan

Come Live with Me

Edison, the Man

The Foolish Matrons

The White Cliffs of Dover

The Yearling

Dead Heat

Smouldering Fires

Wife vs. Secretary

To Please a Lady

Conquest

Ah, Wilderness!

Looking Forward

Emma

The Blue Bird

Anna Karenina

The Son-Daughter

A Woman of Affairs

Romance

The Human Comedy

The Eagle

Idiot's Delight

The Last of the Mohicans

Plymouth Adventure

The Trail of '98

A Free Soul