Wally Brown

Wally Brown

Nascimento : 1904-10-08,

Morte : 1961-11-13

História

From Wikipedia Wally Brown (October 9, 1904 – November 13, 1961) was an actor, comedian, and long-time partner of Alan Carney Wally was born in Malden, Massachusetts and served as a vaudevillian. In 1942, he began his film career in Hollywood at RKO Radio Pictures with the film Petticoat Larceny. When RKO decided to emulate the comedy team Abbott and Costello he was paired with Alan Carney, creating "Brown & Carney." They premiered with the military comedies Adventures of a Rookie and its sequel Rookies in Burma. Out of their eight films together, one of their most notable films was Zombies on Broadway co-starring Bela Lugosi, a semi-sequel to Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie. Their contracts were terminated in 1946, after which they pursued solo careers. In the 1940s–50s, both appeared in various roles for Leslie Goodwins films. They reunited in 1961 in The Absent-Minded Professor. Wally's last years were filled with guest appearances in television, his last one in My Three Sons. He made several guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Harry Mitchell in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Gilded Lily." Wally Brown had also been a regular cast member in television shows like I Married Joan, Cimarron City, and Daniel Boone. Along with Alan Carney, he was going to be given a role in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World but died not long before filming began. He also served as a regular on The Abbott and Costello Show on radio.

Perfil

Wally Brown

Filmes

O Fantástico Super-Homem
Coach Elkins
Um desmiolado professor inventa uma "borracha voadora", um incrível material que ganha energia cada vez que bate em uma superfície dura. Infelizmente ninguém acredita nele, exceto um corrupto empresário que quer roubar o invento para si mesmo.
Sob o Signo do Sexo
Drunk (uncredited)
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
Holiday for Lovers
Joe McDougal
Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
Westbound
Stubby
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.
Valentão é Apelido
Dirty Dog Bartender (uncredited)
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
Um de Nós Morrerá
Deputy Moon
William Bonney - Billy the Kid - arruma emprego com um criador de gado conhecido como 'The Englishman', e fica amigo desse homem pacífico e religioso. Mas quando um desonesto xerife e seus homens matam o inglês porque ele planeja abastecer o forte do exército com sua carne, Billy decide vingar essa morte matando os quatro homens responsáveis mas acaba envolvendo nesse tumulto a vida de todos ao seu redor - Tom e Charlie, dois parceiros com as quais ele trabalhou; Pat Garret, que está prestes a se casar; E o gentil casal mexicano que o abriga quando está com problemas. Para piorar isso está ameaçando a Anistia Geral criada pelo governador Wallace para trazer a paz ao território do Novo México. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Chorei por Você
Las Vegas Heckler (uncredited)
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
Mocidade Indomável
Pinky, the cook
Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Tropp is a sponsor for a local prison work program and the women get put in the fields to work off their sentence. Tropp is dating the widowed judge in order to ensure a stable supply of cheap labor in order to undercut his competition. The prisoners suffer ill treatment, but the judge's son has signed on as a hired hand and begins to figure out the scam as he begins falling in love with Jane, and Penny dreams of making it big in showbiz.
The Wild Dakotas
McGraw
When Aaron Baring (Jim Davis) signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savvy frontier scout Jim Henry (Bill Williams) tries to promote cooperation between the natives and the newly arrived settlers, Baring responds by having Williams whipped.
Um Fio de Esperança
Lenny Wilby, navigator
Quando um avião comercial passa por problemas de motor durante um voo Transpacífico e o piloto perde o controle, é o copiloto veterano mas decadente Dan Roman (John Wayne) que consegue trazer o avião em segurança. Um problema atrás do outro acontece neste voo Transpacífico. Você tem o piloto que perde o controle! O copiloto decadente. O engenheiro de voo inseguro. O jovem segundo oficial atrevido. E uma lotada cabine de passageiros com toda a gama de problemas e personalidades possível. Aqui você tem o Duke em um papel que ele não queria, e um filme com o título da canção que se tornou tema de Duke. O que mais poderia qualquer fã de John Wayne querer? Está tudo aqui, e mais algumas coisas.
Sempre Jovem
Horace Gallagher
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.
French Fried Frolic
Wally
Wally and Tim pose as the husbands of two French women so they'll receive their dowry from their eccentric uncle, but mayhem ensues when first their wives show up and then the actual husbands.
Falam os Sinos
Howard Sheldon (uncredited)
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Family Honeymoon
Tom Roscoe
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.
Vacation in Reno
Eddie Roberts
A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
Genius at Work
Jerry Miles
Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.
Interlúdio
Mr. Hopkins
Localizado no Rio de Janeiro, conta a história de Alicia e Devlin, dois polos completamente opostos que acabam se apaixonando devido ao tempo em que trabalharam juntos. Ela é filha de um espião alemão preso pelo governo dos EUA e, para evitar a morte do pai, é obrigada a ajudar o governo americano a prender inimigos mais importantes. Ele é um agente do governo que vai comandar a operação, monitorando para que tudo saia nas mais perfeitas condições planejadas.
From This Day Forward
Jake Beesley
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Radio Stars on Parade
Jerry Miles
A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.
Zombies on Broadway
Jerry Miles
Hiring real zombies for a broadway show proves difficult.
Noivas a Varejo
Jerry Miles
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
Step Lively
Binion
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
Seven Days Ashore
Monty Stephens
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
Rookies in Burma
Jerry Miles
In the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles, and Mike Strager, are still spending most of their time on KP duty. However they are captured by the Japanese and taken to a prison camp and discover that their long-suffering Sergeant Burke has also been captured. They manage to escape and find their way to a Burmese village in which two American showgirls, Janie and Connie who have escaped from Shanghai, are stranded. They all borrow an elephant and head for India.
Around the World
Wally
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Gangway for Tomorrow
Sam
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
A Sétima Vítima
Durk (Uncredited)
Quando sua irmã mais velha Jacqueline desaparece, Mary Gibson é forçada a deixar sua escola particular e viajar para Nova Iorque para procurar por ela. Ingênua, ela não está completamente certa de como encontrá-la. Eventualmente ela conhece Gregory Ward, marido da irmã e um misterioso psiquiatra, Dr. Louis Judd que afirma saber o paradeiro de Jacqueline. O que ela não percebe é que sua irmã se envolveu com adoradores do diabo que agora querem eliminar-lhe por ter revelado a sua existência.
The Adventures of a Rookie
Jerry Miles
Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.
Petticoat Larceny
Sam Colfax
An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.
Radio Runaround
Harry, Radio Station Announcer
As Leon is getting ready to go to his job at a radio station, his wife is fuming because Leon has forgotten their wedding anniversary. With the help of a friend, Leon's wife writes a fake letter to a marital advice show that airs on Leon's station. Little does she realize that her letter will set off a chain of complicated misunderstandings.
Uma Cidade Que Surge (Dodge City)
Cattle Auctioneer (uncredited)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.