James Brown
Also Known As: Jim L. Brown, James L. Brown, James Bowen Brown, James B. Brown, J.B. Brown, James E. Brown
Biography: James Brown (March 22, 1920 - April 11, 1992) was an American film and TV actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. In 1976, he hosted a revival of Rin Tin Tin reruns, which extended until the 1980s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Desdemona, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 22, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 11, 1992
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Town Tamer
Overview: A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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Objective, Burma!
Overview: A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-17
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Air Force
Overview: The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Genres: Action Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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Missing Women
Overview: A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Going My Way
Overview: Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Overview: Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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The Fireball
Overview: Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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Chain Lightning
Overview: Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-18
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When the Clock Strikes
Overview: A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-10
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Springfield Rifle
Overview: Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
Genres: War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-22
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Inside the Mafia
Overview: A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-01
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Young and Willing
Overview: For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having trouble meeting their exhibitor contracts because of lack of product, mainly due to their loss of production in England. A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls till they are set on broadway, but Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) and Tony Dennison (James Brown) are already secretly married. A friend drops in to see Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll) and is shocked to find the boys and girls sharing the same apartment and insists it is her duty to inform Dottie's father (Jay Fassett.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-05
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The Younger Brothers
Overview: Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-03
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Black Spurs
Overview: A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-28
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The Wild Blue Yonder
Overview: Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-05
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The Charge at Feather River
Overview: A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-11
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20,000 Eyes
Overview: An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-14
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Anna Lucasta
Overview: A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-11
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The Fabulous Texan
Overview: A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
Genres: War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-09
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Gun Street
Overview: A sheriff goes in pursuit of an escaped convict who is bent on paying back the people responsible for his imprisonment.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-05
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Five Guns to Tombstone
Overview: Billy Wade is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt, not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces Billy's participation with an offer he cannot refuse, unaware that Billy is actually working on the side of the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-07
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Police Dog Story
Overview: After exhaustive training, a police dog joins an arson investigation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Gun Fight
Overview: Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-30
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Overview: In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-02
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Space Probe Taurus
Overview: In the year 2000, the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Brimstone
Overview: A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Hazard House
Overview: A married couple watches a documentary program which presents the hazards children face in the home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Mean Johnny Barrows
Overview: A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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The Swap
Overview: Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-12
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Thunder Over the Plains
Overview: Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-27
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Wake Island
Overview: In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Woman They Almost Lynched
Overview: Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Overview: At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-14
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Overview: Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-14
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Crazylegs
Overview: The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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The Rebels
Overview: This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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Miracle on Ice
Overview: The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.
Genres: Action Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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Between Midnight and Dawn
Overview: Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-01
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The Forest Rangers
Overview: Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-21
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The Good Fellows
Overview: The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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The Pride of St. Louis
Overview: The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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Targets
Overview: An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-15
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The Groom Wore Spurs
Overview: Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-13
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The Sea Hornet
Overview: "The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
Genres: Mystery Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-06
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The Gallant Legion
Overview: When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-24
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Montana
Overview: An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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Powderkeg
Overview: A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-16
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The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
Overview: The 101st Cavalry discover the survivors of an Apache raid on a wagon train. Feature film from The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin TV show.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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The Man Behind The Gun
Overview: This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-31
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Corvette K-225
Overview: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-29
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Reward Unlimited
Overview: Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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Whiffs
Overview: Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Father Takes the Air
Overview: In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-17
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The Big Fix
Overview: Ken Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring attempting to fix basketball games by bribing the players.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-19
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The Ceremony
Overview: A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-18
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Wings of Chance
Overview: Red Kirby is a seasoned bush pilot. When he crash lands his plane near a remote lake in northern Alberta, he is initially optimistic that he will soon be rescued. However, as the months drag by, Kirby realizes that he must take his fate into his own hands. To combat the loneliness, he befriends a family of Canada geese.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Adiós Amigo
Overview: Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as a blundering patsy to Richard Pryor's slick con man.
Genres: Western Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Irma la Douce
Overview: When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-05
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A Star Is Born
Overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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