Clarence Brown

Regisseur, Producer, Acteur, Redacteur, Schrijver

10 mei 1890 — 17 augustus 1987 (97 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Dead Heat
    Dead Heat1988
  • Flesh and the Devil
    Flesh and the Devil1926

Known For

  • National Velvet
    National Velvet1944
  • Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina1935
  • The Yearling
    The Yearling1946
  • Flesh and the Devil
    Flesh and the Devil1926
  • Anna Christie
    Anna Christie1930
  • Vrouw of secretaresse?
    Vrouw of secretaresse?1936
  • A Free Soul
    A Free Soul1931
  • The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden1949
  • Intruder in the Dust
    Intruder in the Dust1949
  • Angels in the Outfield
    Angels in the Outfield1951
  • De menselijke comedie
    De menselijke comedie1943
  • Come Live with Me
    Come Live with Me1941
  • Possessed
    Possessed1931
  • De adelaar
    De adelaar1925
  • De regen kwam
    De regen kwam1939
  • The White Cliffs of Dover
    The White Cliffs of Dover1944
  • Edison, the Man
    Edison, the Man1940
  • Idiot's Delight
    Idiot's Delight1939
  • Sadie McKee
    Sadie McKee1934
  • Marie Walewska
    Marie Walewska1937

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