Full Name Russel Brown Role Actor Name Russ Brown | Years active 1934–1964 Occupation Actor Spouse Loretta Daye | |
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Born May 30, 1892 ( 1892-05-30 ) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Died October 19, 1964, Englewood, New Jersey, United States Awards Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical Movies Damn Yankees, South Pacific, Anatomy of a Murder, It Happened to Jane, Advise & Consent Similar People Ray Walston, Rae Allen, Gwen Verdon, Stephen Douglass, George Abbott | ||
Russell Brown (May 30, 1892; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 19, 1964; Englewood, New Jersey) was an American Tony Award-winning actor of stage and film. Brown, a stage actor for decades, is best remembered by audiences as Captain Brackett in South Pacific (which he repeated in the movie version) and for his performances as 'Benny Van Buren' in the stage/film version of Damn Yankees in 1958, and the following year as park caretaker George Lemon in the classic courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder (1959). For his stage performance in "Damn Yankees!", he earned Broadway's Tony Award in 1956, as did actor Ray Walston, actress Gwen Verdon and her choreographer husband Bob Fosse, among others, all for the same Tony Award-winning musical.
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