Rowland Brown(1897-1963)

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Rowland Brown was born on 6 November 1897 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Blood Money (1933) and Hell's Highway (1932). He was married to Karen van Ryan and Marie Helis. He died on 6 May 1963 in Costa Mesa, California, USA.

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 nominations total

Known for

Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Angels with Dirty Faces

7.9

Writer

1938

Blood Money

6.7

Writer

1933

Hell's Highway

6.8

Writer

1932

The Doorway to Hell

6.5

Writer

1930

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Writer

Climax!
6.5
TV Series
- story
- 1957
Damon Runyon Theater
7.9
TV Series
- original story
- 1955
Kansas City Confidential
7.3
- story
- 1952
The Nevadan
6.3
- additional dialogue
- 1950
Nocturne
6.5
- story
- 1946
Johnny Apollo
6.9
- screen play
- 1940
The Lady's from Kentucky
6.1
- story
- 1939
Angels with Dirty Faces
7.9
- from a story by
- 1938
Boy of the Streets
5.7
- original story
- 1937
Navy Blue and Gold
6.6
- Writer (uncredited)
- 1937
The Devil Is a Sissy
6.7
- story
- 1936
Robin Hood of El Dorado
5.9
- Writer (uncredited)
- 1936
Widow's Might
- Writer
- 1935
Leave It to Blanche
- Writer
- 1934
What Happened to Harkness?
- story
- 1934

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Height
- 6′ (1.83 m)
Born
- November 6, 1897
- Akron, Ohio, USA
Died
- May 6, 1963
- Costa Mesa, California, USA
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Other works
Story: "A Handful of Clouds" (filmed as The Doorway to Hell (1930))

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Temperamental screenwriter and occasional director of the 1930s. Moved to Hollywood in the mid-'20s, finding work as a prop boy on the Universal lot. By 1926 he was working as a gagman for 'Reginald Denny'. He wrote several moderately successful gangster movies in the early 1930s, their "authentic feel" rumored to have been enhanced by his having been a bootlegger with mob ties during Prohibition. Career stalled after being fired, first from directing The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) by Alexander Korda, then by David O. Selznick from A Star Is Born (1937). Little heard of after 1940.