Known For
Directing
Born
May 10, 1890
Died
Aug 17, 1987
Place of Birth
Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
Credits
66 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Dead Heat
Harry Latham
Fats Domino Live from Austin Texas
Batterie
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Need to Know")
Never Let Me Go
Producer
Plymouth Adventure
Director
When in Rome
Director
It's a Big Country
Director
Angels in the Outfield
Director
To Please a Lady
Director
Intruder in the Dust
Director
The Secret Garden
Producer
Song of Love
Director
The Yearling
Director
National Velvet
Director
The White Cliffs of Dover
Director
The Human Comedy
Producer
They Met in Bombay
Director
Come Live with Me
Director
Edison, the Man
Director
The Rains Came
Director
Idiot's Delight
Director
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
Of Human Hearts
Director
Conquest
Director
The Gorgeous Hussy
Director
Wife vs. Secretary
Director
Ah, Wilderness!
Director
Anna Karenina
Director
Chained
Director
Sadie McKee
Director
Night Flight
Director
Looking Forward
Director
The Son-Daughter
Director
Letty Lynton
Director
Emma
Director
Possessed
Man on Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
A Free Soul
Director
Inspiration
Director
Romance
Director
Anna Christie
Director
Navy Blues
Roller Coaster Rider
Wonder of Women
Director
A Woman of Affairs
Director
The Trail of '98
Director
Flesh and the Devil
Director
Kiki
Director
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Eagle
Director
The Goose Woman
Director
Smouldering Fires
Director