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Rowland Brown

Born November 6, 1900 · Canton, Ohio, U.S.

Died May 6, 1963 · aged 62

Rowland Brown (November 6, 1900 – May 6, 1963), born Chauncey Rowland Brown in Canton, Ohio, was an American screenwriter and film director, whose career as a director ended in the early 1930s after he started many more films than he finished. He walked out of State's Attorney (1932), starring John Barrymore. He was abruptly replaced as director of The Scarlet Pimpernel. As a writer, he was credit…

Known For

Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential · 1952

Kansas City Confidential

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

Johnny Apollo

Johnny Apollo · 1940

MovieDramaCrime

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

The Nevadan

The Nevadan · 1950

A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.

The Devil Is a Sissy

The Devil Is a Sissy · 1936

The Devil Is a Sissy

MovieComedyDrama

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

State's Attorney

State's Attorney · 1932

State's Attorney

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces · 1938

Angels with Dirty Faces

MovieCrimeDrama

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

Nocturne

Nocturne · 1946

MovieCrimeDrama

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

Skyline

Skyline · 1931

Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.

Filmography

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Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential · 1952

Kansas City Confidential

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

Story

Johnny Apollo

Johnny Apollo · 1940

MovieDramaCrime

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

Screenplay

The Nevadan

The Nevadan · 1950

A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.

Additional Dialogue

The Devil Is a Sissy

The Devil Is a Sissy · 1936

The Devil Is a Sissy

MovieComedyDrama

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Story

State's Attorney

State's Attorney · 1932

State's Attorney

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, June Perry, accused of prostitution. Cardigan agrees. But he never expected to fall for her, which is problematic since he's angling to become governor and will need the right kind of wife.

Screenplay

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces · 1938

Angels with Dirty Faces

MovieCrimeDrama

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

Story

Nocturne

Nocturne · 1946

MovieCrimeDrama

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

Story

Skyline

Skyline · 1931

Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.

Writer

What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood? · 1932

What Price Hollywood?

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.

Writer

Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway · 1932

MovieCrimeDrama

A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

Director

Blood Money

Blood Money · 1933

The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.

Director

The Doorway to Hell

The Doorway to Hell · 1930

The Doorway to Hell

MovieCrimeDrama

A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.

Story

Quick Millions

Quick Millions · 1931

MovieCrimeDrama

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.

Screenplay

Points West

Points West · 1929

Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.

Scenario Writer

Widow's Might

Widow's Might · 1935

Writer

Boy of the Streets

Boy of the Streets · 1938

Boy of the Streets

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

Story

Fugitives

Fugitives · 1929

Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to kill Barrow rather than give in to his advances. She protests her innocence, but the District Attorney doesn't believe her and charges her with Barrow's murder. However, things aren't quite as cut-and-dried as the D.A. believes them to be.

Writer