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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