Wally Brown
Also Known As: Wallace Edgar Brown
Biography: From Wikipedia Wally Brown (October 9, 1904 – November 13, 1961) was an actor, comedian, and long-time partner of Alan Carney Wally was born in Malden, Massachusetts and served as a vaudevillian. In 1942, he began his film career in Hollywood at RKO Radio Pictures with the film Petticoat Larceny. When RKO decided to emulate the comedy team Abbott and Costello he was paired with Alan Carney, creating "Brown & Carney." They premiered with the military comedies Adventures of a Rookie and its sequel Rookies in Burma. Out of their eight films together, one of their most notable films was Zombies on Broadway co-starring Bela Lugosi, a semi-sequel to Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie. Their contracts were terminated in 1946, after which they pursued solo careers. In the 1940s–50s, both appeared in various roles for Leslie Goodwins films. They reunited in 1961 in The Absent-Minded Professor. Wally's last years were filled with guest appearances in television, his last one in My Three Sons. He made several guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Harry Mitchell in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Gilded Lily." Wally Brown had also been a regular cast member in television shows like I Married Joan, Cimarron City, and Daniel Boone. Along with Alan Carney, he was going to be given a role in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World but died not long before filming began. He also served as a regular on The Abbott and Costello Show on radio.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: October 08, 1904
Deathday: November 13, 1961
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Gender: Male
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Notorious
Overview: In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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Zombies on Broadway
Overview: Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-01
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Wink of an Eye
Overview: A chemist in a perfume factory seems to have killed his wife, cut her up, and stuck her remains in the freezer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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The Left Handed Gun
Overview: When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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Around the World
Overview: Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-27
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Step Lively
Overview: Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-26
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The High and the Mighty
Overview: Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-03
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Gangway for Tomorrow
Overview: Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-03
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Family Honeymoon
Overview: Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-06
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Seven Days Ashore
Overview: Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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From This Day Forward
Overview: A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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Holiday for Lovers
Overview: Clifton Webb as a strict, conservative father heads the cast of this 1959 comedy, about an American family vacationing in South America. Directed by Henry Levin, the film also features Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid, Gary Crosby, Henny Backus, Wally Brown, Gardner McKay and Jose Greco.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-21
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Genius at Work
Overview: Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-20
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Radio Stars on Parade
Overview: A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-01
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Girl Rush
Overview: During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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Who Was That Lady?
Overview: In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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The Best of Everything
Overview: An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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As Young as You Feel
Overview: Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can calm him. McKinley's wife Lucille becomes infatuated with Hodges. Many further complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-15
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Petticoat Larceny
Overview: An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-17
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The Adventures of a Rookie
Overview: Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Rookies in Burma
Overview: In the jungles of Burma, U.S. Army Privates Jerry Miles, and Mike Strager, are still spending most of their time on KP duty. However they are captured by the Japanese and taken to a prison camp and discover that their long-suffering Sergeant Burke has also been captured. They manage to escape and find their way to a Burmese village in which two American showgirls, Janie and Connie who have escaped from Shanghai, are stranded. They all borrow an elephant and head for India.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-20
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All Through the Night
Overview: Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Backstage Follies
Overview: Faced with a police raid ordered by Errol's wife, turned Reform League president, the manager of the local burleque theatre sends one of the girls over to get friendly with Errol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-24
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Dodge City
Overview: In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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Come to the Stable
Overview: Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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The Joker is Wild
Overview: A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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The Absent-Minded Professor
Overview: Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-16
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The Wild Dakotas
Overview: When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savvy frontier scout Jim Henry tries to promote cooperation between the natives and the newly arrived settlers, Baring responds by having Williams whipped.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-28
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Vacation in Reno
Overview: A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-10
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Radio Runaround
Overview: As Leon is getting ready to go to his job at a radio station, his wife is fuming because Leon has forgotten their wedding anniversary. With the help of a friend, Leon's wife writes a fake letter to a marital advice show that airs on Leon's station. Little does she realize that her letter will set off a chain of complicated misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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Alias Jesse James
Overview: Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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Westbound
Overview: As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-25
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The Seventh Victim
Overview: After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-21
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Untamed Youth
Overview: Two sisters are arrested for skinny-dipping on their way to Los Angeles and are sentenced to labor work on a farm.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-15
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French Fried Frolic
Overview: Wally and Tim pose as the husbands of two French women so they'll receive their dowry from their eccentric uncle, but mayhem ensues when first their wives show up and then the actual husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-08
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Daniel Boone: The Promised Land
Overview: The wagon train on the way to Kentucky has to lighten the loads to get across the mountains and battle Indians.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-19
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