Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley,[2] played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, both "Gillis" and Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show), "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, and "Thorny" the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Perhaps his most memorable piece of work is the ‘Broadway’ role; once heard, many find it impossible to think of the narrator of Damon Runyon’s stories as anyone else. It was a measure of Brown’s talent that this quintessentially American character was portrayed by an Englishman.
Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley,[2] played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, both "Gillis" and Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show), "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, and "Thorny" the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Perhaps his most memorable piece of work is the ‘Broadway’ role; once heard, many find it impossible to think of the narrator of Damon Runyon’s stories as anyone else. It was a measure of Brown’s talent that this quintessentially American character was portrayed by an Englishman.
Brown appeared in some notable films: as the inebriated professor in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, uncredited), and The Wild One (1953); he supplied the voice of "Ro-Man" in the 1953 cult science fiction B-film Robot Monster.
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Filmography (Movies)
Dixieland Droopy
Character:Narrator / Pee Wee Runt (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:04/12/1954
The Wild One
Character:Bill Hannegan
Release Date:30/12/1953
The Bigamist
Character:
Release Date:03/12/1953
Man Crazy
Character:Mr. Duncan
Release Date:02/12/1953
Crazylegs
Character:Keller
Release Date:15/11/1953
Jennifer
Character:Service Station Attendant (uncredited)
Release Date:25/10/1953
Robot Monster
Character:Ro-Man / Great Guidance (voice)
Release Date:24/06/1953
Hans Christian Andersen
Character:Schoolmaster
Release Date:19/12/1952
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Character:George Barley, boarder
Release Date:18/09/1951
Strangers on a Train
Character:Prof. Collins
Release Date:27/06/1951
Symphony in Slang
Character:The Hipster / Noah Webster (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:16/06/1951
The Life of Riley
Character:Digger O'Dell
Release Date:16/04/1949
The Stranger
Character:Passport Photographer (uncredited)
Release Date:02/06/1946
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Character:Lou the waiter (uncredited)
Release Date:28/04/1945
A Peach of a Pair
Character:John
Release Date:29/12/1934
Television Appearances
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