Clarence Brown
Directing
Born 1890-05-10
Died 1987-08-17
Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
66 credits
Golden Lion 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 5 nominated
- 1947 Best Director Nominated The Yearling
- 1946 Best Director Nominated National Velvet
- 1944 Best Director Nominated The Human Comedy
- 1931 Best Director Nominated A Free Soul
- 1930 Best Director Nominated Romance
Golden Lion 1 won
- — Golden Lion Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- 1960 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Directing
46 credits
Angels in the Outfield
National Velvet
The Yearling
Possessed
Anna Karenina
Wife vs. Secretary
The Rains Came
The Human Comedy
Plymouth Adventure
Edison, the Man
Ah, Wilderness!
Kiki
Chained
The White Cliffs of Dover
Flesh and the Devil
The Gorgeous Hussy
It's a Big Country
Idiot's Delight
A Free Soul
Anna Christie
Come Live with Me
Of Human Hearts
Night Flight
Song of Love
Sadie McKee
Romance
Intruder in the Dust
Conquest
To Please a Lady
The Last of the Mohicans
When in Rome
The Eagle
A Woman of Affairs
The Goose Woman
They Met in Bombay
The Son-Daughter
Letty Lynton
The Trail of '98
Emma
Looking Forward
Inspiration
Smouldering Fires
The Foolish Matrons
Butterfly
Navy Blues
Wonder of Women
Producing
21 credits
Angels in the Outfield
National Velvet
The Secret Garden
Possessed
Wife vs. Secretary
The Human Comedy
Never Let Me Go
Ah, Wilderness!
Kiki
Chained
The White Cliffs of Dover
The Gorgeous Hussy
Night Flight
Song of Love
Romance
Intruder in the Dust
To Please a Lady
The Trail of '98
Looking Forward
Inspiration
Navy Blues
Acting
7 credits
The Twilight Zone
Dead Heat
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Possessed
Hollywood Goes to Town
Fats Domino Live from Austin Texas
Navy Blues
Other credits
7 credits
The Cub
A Girl's Folly
The Pride of the Clan
The Blue Bird
The Velvet Paw
The Closed Road
The Hand of Peril
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