Cause of death heart attack Children Harry Joe Brown Jr. | Name Harry Brown | |
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Movies The Tall T, Captain Blood, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Hangman's Knot Similar People | ||
Grandchildren Morgan Brown, Esme Brown | ||
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Harry Joe Brown (September 22, 1890 – April 28, 1972) was an American film producer and supervisor who was also a theatre and film director.
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Biography
Harry Joe Brown was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a producer, he had a partnership with director Budd Boetticher, actor Randolph Scott and screenwriter Burt Kennedy, which generated a series of five westerns between 1957 and 1960 (The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Ride Lonesome, Comanche Station) via a company he created with Scott which eventually became known as Ranown Pictures Corp. He produced the American debut films of both Errol Flynn in Captain Blood and Sean Flynn in Son of Captain Blood.
Brown directed a number of films, among them Knickerbocker Holiday, Sitting Pretty and Madison Square Garden.
Personal life
He was married to actress Sally Eilers. They resided in a mansion located at 625 Mountain Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
Brown died of a heart attack on April 28, 1972, aged 81, in Palm Springs, California.