
Johnny Mack Brown
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. This was followed by The Bugle Call (1927), which starred the fading Jackie Coogan. In 1928 he appeared in the last Norma Shearer silent film, A Lady of Chance (1928). After that, he worked with Greta Garbo, Marion Davies and Mary Pickford. His muscular good looks only carried him so far in films, however, and by 1930 he had yet to find his place. At MGM Clark Gable was taking the roles that Brown was up for, so he went into a western for director King Vidor, Billy the Kid (1930). While Vidor did not want him for the part to begin with, the picture was successful; however, Brown's career at MGM soon ended. By 1933 he was still making westerns, but they were for low-rung studios like Mascot. More westerns at even lower-rung Supreme Pictures followed, as well as serials like Wild West Days (1937) at Universal. In 1943 Brown took his boots over to Monogram Pictures, where he made over 60 westerns. He started off as "Nevada Jack McKenzie" in the Rough Riders series, but the name soon changed to Johnny. As with most of the early cowboy stars, he was a hero to millions of young children and consistently among the top ten money-makers in westerns from 1942-50. The bubble burst, though, just as it did for Allan Lane, in 1953, as the days of the "B" western came to an end.
Acting (168 movies)

Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
2000

The Secret Six
1931

Our Dancing Daughters
1928

Against the Law
1934

After Midnight
1927

Born to the West
1937

Fighting With Kit Carson
1933

Female
1933

Mockery
1927

The Oregon Trail
1939

Belle of the Nineties
1934

Coquette
1929

Stampede
1949

The Crooked Trail
1936

Rawhide Rangers
1941

The Single Standard
1929

Apache Uprising
1965

The Last Flight
1931

Montana Moon
1930

Wells Fargo
1937

The Valiant
1929

Stagecoach Buckaroo
1942

Slide, Kelly, Slide
1927

Between Men
1935

Legends of the West
1992

The Courageous Avenger
1935

Soft Living
1928

Billy the Kid
1930

Cross Streets
1934

Branded a Coward
1935

The Fair Co-Ed
1927

Texas Lawmen
1951

A Lady of Chance
1928

The Divine Woman
1928

Short Grass
1950

Flames
1932

Desert Phantom
1936

Rogue of the Range
1936

The Texas Kid
1943

Partners of the Trail
1944

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976

The Silver Bullet
1942

St. Louis Woman
1934

Lawless Land
1937

Bar-Z Bad Men
1937

Guns in the Dark
1937

A Lawman Is Born
1937

Boothill Brigade
1937

The Gambling Terror
1937

The Great Meadow
1931

Pony Post
1940

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
1943

Flaming Frontiers
1938

Hurricane
1929

Undertow
1930

Chip of the Flying U
1939

Land of Liberty
1939

Jazz Heaven
1929

A Woman of Affairs
1928

Wild West Days
1937

The Vanishing Frontier
1933

The Navajo Trail
1945

Law of the Range
1941

Man from Montana
1941

The Masked Rider
1941

The Gentleman from Texas
1946

Annapolis
1928

Ride 'Em Cowboy
1942

Son of a Sailor
1933

The Lone Star Trail
1943

Stranger from Santa Fe
1945

Prairie Express
1947

Oklahoma Justice
1951

Blazing Bullets
1951

Whistling Hills
1951

Son of Roaring Dan
1940

Shadows on the Range
1946

Overland Trails
1948

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1994

Six Gun Mesa
1950

Arizona Cyclone
1941

Trigger Fingers
1946

Valley of the Lawless
1936

Ragtime Cowboy Joe
1940

Undercover Man
1936

Dead Man's Trail
1952

Over the Border
1950

Triggerman
1948

Valley of Fear
1947

West of Carson City
1940

West of El Dorado
1949

Trail of Vengeance
1937

Border Bandits
1946

The Lost Trail
1945

The Marshal's Daughter
1953

Riders of Pasco Basin
1940

Crossed Trails
1948

Deep in the Heart of Texas
1942

Gun Smoke
1945

Outlaw Gold
1950
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