Johnny Mack Brown

Johnny Mack Brown

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Dothan, Alabama, USA, 1904-09-01

Died: 1974-11-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1927	Slide, Kelly, Slide	Johnny Mack Brown	0
2	1927	The Bugle Call	Bit (uncredited)	0
3	1927	Mockery	Russian Officer (uncredited)	67
4	1927	After Midnight	Party Boy (uncredited)	70
5	1927	The Fair Co-Ed	Bob	55
6	1928	The Divine Woman	Jean Lery	69
7	1928	Soft Living	Stockney Webb	0
8	1928	The Play Girl	Bradley Lane	0
9	1928	Our Dancing Daughters	Ben Blaine	65
10	1928	Annapolis	Bill	30
11	1928	A Lady of Chance	Steve Crandall	65
12	1928	A Woman of Affairs	David Furness	67
13	1929	Coquette	Michael Jeffery	57
14	1929	The Valiant	Robert Ward	60
15	1929	The Single Standard	Tommy Hewlett	62
16	1929	Hurricane	Dan	60
17	1929	Jazz Heaven	Barry Holmes	50
18	1930	Undertow	Paul Whalen	30
19	1930	Montana Moon	Larry	45
20	1930	Billy the Kid	Billy the Kid	43
21	1931	The Great Meadow	Berk Jarvis (as John Mack Brown)	50
22	1931	The Secret Six	Hank Rogers	58
23	1931	The Last Flight	Bill Talbot	64
24	1931	Lasca of the Rio Grande	Miles Kincaid	0
25	1931	Hollywood Halfbacks		0
26	1932	Flames	Charlie	25
27	1932	70,000 Witnesses	Wally Clark	48
28	1932	Malay Nights	Jim Wilson	0
29	1933	The Vanishing Frontier	Kirby Tornell	0
30	1933	Fighting With Kit Carson	Kit Carson	60
31	1933	Saturday's Millions	Alan Barry	50
32	1933	Female	George P. Cooper	63
33	1933	Son of a Sailor	'Duke'	50
34	1934	Three on a Honeymoon	Chuck Wells	0
35	1934	St. Louis Woman	Jim Warren	0
36	1934	Cross Streets	Adam Blythe	58
37	1934	Belle of the Nineties	Brooks Clayburn	57
38	1934	Against the Law	Steve Wayne	30
39	1934	Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove	Self	55
40	1935	Rustlers of Red Dog	Jack Wood	80
41	1935	Branded a Coward	Johnny Hume	58
42	1935	Starlit Days at the Lido	Self	50
43	1935	Between Men	Johnny Wellington Jr.	50
44	1935	The Courageous Avenger	Kirk Baxter	46
45	1936	Valley of the Lawless	Bruce Reynolds	0
46	1936	Desert Phantom	Billy Donovan	0
47	1936	Rogue of the Range	Dan Doran	25
48	1936	Everyman's Law	Johnny- aka The Dog Town Kid	0
49	1936	The Crooked Trail	Jim Blake	48
50	1936	Undercover Man	Steve McLain	55
51	1937	The Gambling Terror	Jeff Hayes	55
52	1937	Trail of Vengeance	Dude Ramsay	0
53	1937	Lawless Land	Ranger Jeff Hayden	48
54	1937	Bar-Z Bad Men	Jim Waters	23
55	1937	Guns in the Dark	Johnny Darrel	55
56	1937	A Lawman Is Born	Tom Mitchell	30
57	1937	Wild West Days	Kentucky Wade	0
58	1937	Boothill Brigade	Lon Cardigan	48
59	1937	Born to the West	Tom Fillmore	45
60	1937	Wells Fargo	Talbot Carter	52
61	1938	Flaming Frontiers	Tex Houston	52
62	1939	Land of Liberty	Billy the Kid (edited from 'Billy the Kid')	0
63	1939	The Oregon Trail	Jeff Scott	80
64	1939	Desperate Trails	Steve Hayden	45
65	1939	Oklahoma Frontier	Jeff McLeod	0
66	1939	Chip of the Flying U	'Chip' Bennett	0
67	1940	West of Carson City	Jim Bannister	20
68	1940	Boss of Bullion City	Tom Bryant	50
69	1940	Riders of Pasco Basin	Lee Jamison	20
70	1940	Bad Man from Red Butte	Gils Brady / Buck Halliday	54
71	1940	Son of Roaring Dan	Jim Reardon (Posing as Horace McPhail)	0
72	1940	Ragtime Cowboy Joe	Steve Logan	0
73	1940	Law and Order	Bill Ralston	0
74	1940	Pony Post	Cal Sheridan	0
75	1941	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie	Joe Henderson	50
76	1941	Law of the Range	Steve Howard	50
77	1941	Rawhide Rangers	Brand Calhoun	50
78	1941	Man from Montana	Sheriff Bob Dawson	0
79	1941	The Masked Rider	Larry Prescott	70
80	1941	Arizona Cyclone	Tom Baxter	40
81	1941	Fighting Bill Fargo	Bill Fargo	60
82	1942	Stagecoach Buckaroo	Steve Hardin	50
83	1942	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Alabam' Brewster	58
84	1942	The Silver Bullet	Silver Jim Donovan	40
85	1942	Boss of Hangtown Mesa	Steve Collins	0
86	1942	Deep in the Heart of Texas	Jim Mallory	50
87	1942	Little Joe, the Wrangler	Neal Wallace	60
88	1942	The Old Chisholm Trail	Dusty Gardner	70
89	1943	Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground	Wade Benson	0
90	1943	The Ghost Rider	Nevada Jack McKenzie	0
91	1943	Cheyenne Roundup	Buck Brandon & Gils Brandon	40
92	1943	Raiders of San Joaquin	Rocky Morgan aka The Black Rider	60
93	1943	The Stranger From Pecos	Nevada Jack McKenzie	0
94	1943	Six Gun Gospel	Marshal Jack McKenzie	45
95	1943	The Lone Star Trail	Blaze Barker	50
96	1943	Crazy House	Johnny Mack Brown	50
97	1943	Outlaws of Stampede Pass	Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie	40
98	1943	The Texas Kid	Jack McKenzie	48
99	1944	Raiders of the Border	Nevada Jack McKenzie	0
100	1944	Law Men	U.S. Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie	50
101	1944	Partners of the Trail	Jack McKenzie	35
102	1944	Range Law	U. S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie	0
103	1944	West of the Rio Grande	U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie	0
104	1944	Land of the Outlaws	Marshal Nevada McKenzie	0
105	1944	Law of the Valley	Marshal Nevada McKenzie	50
106	1944	Ghost Guns	Marshal Nevada McKenzie	58
107	1945	The Navajo Trail	Marshal Nevada McKenzie	0
108	1945	Forever Yours	Maj. Tex O'Connor	0
109	1945	Gun Smoke	Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie	38
110	1945	Stranger from Santa Fe	U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie, posing as Roy Ferris	100
111	1945	Flame of the West	Dr. John Poore	60
112	1945	The Lost Trail	Marshal 'Nevada Jack' McKenzie	0
113	1945	Frontier Feud	Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie	50
114	1946	Border Bandits	Marshal Nevada	60
115	1946	Drifting Along	Steve Garner	0
116	1946	The Haunted Mine	Nevada Jack McKenzie	0
117	1946	Under Arizona Skies	Dusty Smith	0
118	1946	The Gentleman from Texas	Johnny Macklin	0
119	1946	Trigger Fingers	Sam Hurricane Benton	0
120	1946	Shadows on the Range	Steve Mason posing as Steve Saunders	0
121	1946	Silver Range	Johnny Bronton	0
122	1947	Raiders of the South	Captain Brownell posing Johnny Langdon	0
123	1947	Land of the Lawless	Johnny Mack	0
124	1947	The Law Comes to Gunsight	Johnny Mackey	50
125	1947	Trailing Danger	Johnny	0
126	1947	Code of the Saddle	John Macklin	0
127	1947	Flashing Guns	Johnny Mack	0
128	1947	Valley of Fear	Johnny Williams	0
129	1947	Prairie Express	Johnny Hudson	0
130	1947	Gun Talk	Johnny McVey	0
131	1948	Overland Trails	Johnny Murdock	0
132	1948	Crossed Trails	Johnny Mack	0
133	1948	Frontier Agent	Johnny Mack Brown	0
134	1948	Triggerman	Johnny Mack Brown	0
135	1948	Back Trail	Johnny Mack	0
136	1948	The Fighting Ranger	Johnny Brown	0
137	1948	The Sheriff of Medicine Bow	Johnny Mack Brown	0
138	1948	Gunning for Justice	Johnny Mack	0
139	1948	Hidden Danger	Johnny Mack	0
140	1949	Law of the West	Federal Agent Johnny Mack	0
141	1949	Trails End	Johnny Mack	0
142	1949	Stampede	Sheriff Aaron Ball	55
143	1949	West of El Dorado	Johnny Mack	0
144	1949	Range Justice	Johnny Mack Brown	0
145	1949	Western Renegades	Johnny Mack Brown	50
146	1950	West of Wyoming	Johnny Mack Brown	60
147	1950	Over the Border	Johnny Mack Brown	0
148	1950	Six Gun Mesa	Johnny Mack Brown	100
149	1950	Law of the Panhandle	U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown	0
150	1950	Outlaw Gold	Johnny Mack Brown	0
151	1950	Short Grass	Sheriff Ord Keown	60
152	1951	Colorado Ambush	Johnny Mack Brown	0
153	1951	Man from Sonora	Johnny Mack Brown	0
154	1951	Blazing Bullets	Johnny Mack Brown	0
155	1951	Montana Desperado	Johnny Mack Brown	0
156	1951	Oklahoma Justice	Johnny Mack Brown	0
157	1951	Whistling Hills	Johnny Mack Brown	0
158	1951	Texas Lawmen	Marshal Johnny Mack Brown	0
159	1952	Texas City	Johnny Mack Brown	63
160	1952	Man from the Black Hills	Johnny Mack Brown	0
161	1952	Dead Man's Trail	Johnny Mack Brown	0
162	1952	Canyon Ambush	Johnny Mack Brown	50
163	1953	The Marshal's Daughter	Johnny Mack Brown - Poker-Game Player	35
164	1965	Requiem for a Gunfighter	Enkoff	60
165	1965	The Bounty Killer	Sheriff Green	58
166	1965	Apache Uprising	Sheriff Ben Hall	63
167	1976	It's Showtime	Self (archive footage)	70
168	1976	Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch	(archive footage)	90
169	1992	Legends of the West	Billy the Kid in 'Billy the Kid'	0
170	1994	Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her	Self (archive footage)	0
171	2000	Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs	(archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	This Is Your Life	Self	64
2	1957	Official Detective		0
3	1957	Perry Mason	Warner Griffith	77

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