
Clarence Brown
Biography
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.
Acting (6 movies)
Directing (50 movies)

Conquest
1937

Inspiration
1931

Come Live with Me
1941

A Woman of Affairs
1928

Anna Christie
1930

Idiot's Delight
1939

Sadie McKee
1934

Edison, the Man
1940

Angels in the Outfield
1951

Flesh and the Devil
1926

Wife vs. Secretary
1936

National Velvet
1945

The Human Comedy
1943

The Yearling
1946

Chained
1934

Anna Karenina
1935

Possessed
1931

Intruder in the Dust
1949

A Free Soul
1931

The White Cliffs of Dover
1944

Plymouth Adventure
1952

It's a Big Country
1951

Night Flight
1933

Romance
1930

They Met in Bombay
1941

Emma
1932

Smouldering Fires
1925

Ah, Wilderness!
1935

The Eagle
1925

Of Human Hearts
1938

The Rains Came
1939

The Gorgeous Hussy
1936

The Goose Woman
1925

Song of Love
1947

The Trail of '98
1928

The Light in the Dark
1922

Letty Lynton
1932

Don't Marry for Money
1923

When in Rome
1952

To Please a Lady
1950

Kiki
1926

Wonder of Women
1929

The Son-Daughter
1932

The Signal Tower
1924

Navy Blues
1929

Looking Forward
1933

The Foolish Matrons
1921

The Great Redeemer
1920

Butterfly
1924

The Acquittal
1923
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| The Light in the Dark | 1922 | Writer | 
| Kiki | 1926 | Producer | 
| The Trail of '98 | 1928 | Producer | 
| Navy Blues | 1929 | Producer | 
| Romance | 1930 | Producer | 
| Inspiration | 1931 | Producer | 
| Possessed | 1931 | Producer | 
| Looking Forward | 1933 | Producer | 
| Night Flight | 1933 | Producer | 
| Chained | 1934 | Producer | 
| Ah, Wilderness! | 1935 | Producer | 
| Wife vs. Secretary | 1936 | Producer | 
| The Gorgeous Hussy | 1936 | Producer | 
| The Human Comedy | 1943 | Producer | 
| The White Cliffs of Dover | 1944 | Producer | 
| National Velvet | 1945 | Producer | 
| Song of Love | 1947 | Producer | 
| The Secret Garden | 1949 | Producer | 
| Intruder in the Dust | 1949 | Producer | 
| To Please a Lady | 1950 | Producer | 
| Angels in the Outfield | 1951 | Producer | 
| Never Let Me Go | 1953 | Producer | 



