Joe E. Brown
Born: 1891-07-26 in Holgate, Ohio, USA
Died: 1973-07-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Joseph Evans Brown (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973) was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his amiable screen persona, comic timing, and enormous smile. In 1902 at the age of nine, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvelous Ashtons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits. Later he became a professional baseball player. After three seasons he returned to the circus, then went into Vaudeville and finally starred on Broadway. He gradually added comedy into his act and transformed himself into a comedian. He moved to Broadway in the 1920s first appearing in the musical comedy Jim Jam Jems. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe E. Brown , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2013
- Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
2001
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as Self (archive footage)
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
1976
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
- It's Showtime as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1974
- That's Entertainment! as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
- Cilla as Self
1964
- The Comedy of Terrors as Cemetery Keeper
1963
- The Greatest Show on Earth as Diamond 'Dimey' Vine
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Union Official
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
1960
- Route 66 as Sam Butler
1959
- Some Like It Hot as Osgood Fielding III
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956
- Around the World in 80 Days as Stationmaster
1955
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Arthur Vail
1953
- General Electric Theater as Earl Hall
- The Christophers
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians as Narrator
1951
- Show Boat as Cap'n Andy Hawks
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Toast to Our Brother as Fraternity Alumnus
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1949
- The Ed Wynn Show as Self
1948
- The Tender Years as Will Norris
1944
- Hollywood Canteen as Self
- Pin Up Girl as Eddie Hall
- Casanova in Burlesque as Joseph M. Kelly Jr.
- Memo for Joe as Self
1943
- Show-Business at War as Self
- Chatterbox as Rex Vane
1942
- Shut My Big Mouth as Wellington Holmes
- Soaring Stars as Himself
- The Daring Young Man as Jonathan Peckinpaw / Grandma Peckinpaw
- Joan of Ozark as Cliff Little
1941
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
- Polo with the Stars as Self - Polo Player
1940
- So You Won't Talk? as Whiskers / Brute Hanson
- Rodeo Dough as Joe E. Brown
1939
- Beware Spooks! as Roy L. Gifford
- Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
- $1,000 a Touchdown as Marlowe Mansfield Booth
1938
- Wide Open Faces as Wilbur Meeks
- The Gladiator as Hugo Kipp
- Flirting with Fate as Dan Dixon
1937
- Hollywood Party as Himself
- Fit for a King as Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones
- Riding on Air as Elmer Lane
- When's Your Birthday? as Dustin Willoughby
1936
- Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
- Sons o' Guns as Jimmy Canfield
- Earthworm Tractors as Alexander Botts
- Polo Joe as Joe Bolton
1935
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Flute
- Alibi Ike as Frank "Ike" Farrell
- Bright Lights as Joe Wilson
- A Dream Comes True as Himself (uncredited)
- Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1934
- Hollywood Newsreel as Himself
- The Circus Clown as Happy Howard / Chuckles
- 6 Day Bike Rider as Wilfred
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-4 as Self
- A Very Honorable Guy as 'Feet' Samuels
1933
- Elmer, the Great as Elmer Kane
- Son of a Sailor as Handsome
- How to Break 90 #1: The Grip as Himself
1932
- Fireman, Save My Child as 'Smokey' Joe Grant
- You Said a Mouthful as Joe Holt
- The Tenderfoot as Calvin Jones
1931
- The Stolen Jools as Robbery Suspect
- Broadminded as Ossie Simpson
- Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) as Self
- Sit Tight as Jojo
- Local Boy Makes Good as John Augustus Miller
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots' as Self - Golfer (uncredited)
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'
1930
- Top Speed as Elmer Peters
- An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
- Maybe It's Love as Yates
- Hold Everything as Gink Schiner
- Going Wild as Rollo Smith
- The Lottery Bride as Hoke
- Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 as Self
- Sally as Grand Duke Connie
- Song of the West as Hasty
- Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 as Joe E. Brown
1929
- Molly and Me
- On With the Show! as Joe Beaton
- Painted Faces as Hermann / Beppo
- My Lady's Past as Sam Young
1928
- Crooks Can't Win as Jimmy Wells
- Take Me Home as Bunny
- Hit of the Show as Twisty
- The Circus Kid as King Kruger
1927
- Twinkle, Twinkle as P.T. Robinson