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John Brown (September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974) was an American college football player and film actor billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career. [1] He acted and starred mainly in Western films.
Johnny Mack Brown. Actor: Valley of Fear. An All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown chose the silver screen over the green grass of the football field when he graduated.
Johnny Mack Brown. Actor: Valley of Fear. An All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown chose the silver screen over the green grass of the football field when he graduated.
Dec 30, 2023 · Born Sept. 1, 1904, as the son of shopkeepers, Brown starred at Dothan High School before earning a scholarship to Alabama in 1922. He arrived in Tuscaloosa just as the Crimson Tide was...
Aug 22, 2022 · Johnny Mack Brown, one of the University of Alabama's first marquee football players, went on to become a matinee idol during the golden age of western films. Brown, born on Sept....
Johnny Mack Brown. Actor. Born: September 1, 1904 (Dothan, Alabama) Died: November 14, 1974 (Los Angeles, California) Notable Films: Billy the Kid, The Vanishing Frontier, Flaming Frontiers, Flame of the West
Johnny Mack Brown is best remembered as perhaps the first athlete who successfully pursued a motion picture career. As a football player at the University of Alabama, Brown played in one of the most important games in southern football history.
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Jul 30, 2024 · Johnny Mack Brown enjoyed a long and happy career, in addition to family happiness and prosperity, as Hollywood cowboy movie hero, and is counted among the greats of the genre, along with Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Lash Larue.
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Biography. An All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown chose the silver screen over the green grass of the football field when he graduated. Signed to a contract with MGM in 1926, Brown debuted in Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927) with William Haines in a film about - baseball.