James Brown (actor)

James Edward Brown (March 22, 1920 – April 11, 1992) was an American film and television actor

Brown was born in Desdemona, Texas.^[2] He attended Baylor University,^[4] representing the university at Tennis.^[2] Brown began his acting career in 1941 with an uncredited role as a medic in the film Ride, Kelly, Ride. His first credited role was in the 1942 film The Forest Rangers.^[4] Brown starred, co-starred and appeared on films including The Good Fellows, Objective, Burma!, Gun Street, The Big Fix, When the Clock Strikes, Air Force, Irma la Douce, The Fabulous Texan, Young and Willing, The Gallant Legion, The Younger Brothers, Corvette K-225, Sands of Iwo Jima, Yes Sir, That's My Baby, Our Hearts Were Young Gay (and its sequel Our Hearts Were Growing Up), Chain Lightning, Missing Women, Inside the Mafia, The Groom Wore Spurs, Space Probe Taurus, and Going My Way.^[2][4]

In 1954, Brown joined the cast of the new

For about a decade from the mid-1960s Brown left acting to found a company making weight belts, eventually selling the company to Faberge.[4] He returned to acting in television in the 1970s.^[4]

Death

Brown died in April 1992 of