Johnny Mack Brown
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An All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown chose the silver screen over the green grass of the football field when he graduated. Signed to a contract with MGM in 1926, Brown debuted in Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927) with William Haines in a film about - baseball. This was followed by The Bugle Call (1927), which starred the fading Jackie Coogan. In 1928 he appeared in the last Norma Shearer silent film, A Lady of Chance (1928). After that, he worked with Greta Garbo, Marion Davies and Mary Pickford. His muscular good looks only carried him so far in films, however, and by 1930 he had yet to find his place. At MGM Clark Gable was taking the roles that Brown was up for, so he went into a western for director King Vidor, Billy the Kid (1930). While Vidor did not want him for the part to begin with, the picture was successful; however, Brown's career at MGM soon ended. By 1933 he was still making westerns, but they were for low-rung studios like Mascot. More westerns at even lower-rung Supreme Pictures followed, as well as serials like Wild West Days (1937) at Universal. In 1943 Brown took his boots over to Monogram Pictures, where he made over 60 westerns. He started off as "Nevada Jack McKenzie" in the Rough Riders series, but the name soon changed to Johnny. As with most of the early cowboy stars, he was a hero to millions of young children and consistently among the top ten money-makers in westerns from 1942-50. The bubble burst, though, just as it did for Allan Lane, in 1953, as the days of the "B" western came to an end.
Known for
Credits
The Bounty Killer (1965)
as Sheriff Green
It's Showtime (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Legends of the West (1992)
as Billy the Kid in 'Billy the Kid' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Forever Yours (1945)
as Maj. Tex O'Connor
Colorado Ambush (1951)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Malay Nights (1932)
as Jim Wilson
Desert Phantom (1936)
as Billy Donovan
Born to the West (1937)
as Tom Fillmore
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1941)
as Alabam' Brewster
Apache Uprising (1965)
as Sheriff Ben Hall
Wells Fargo (1937)
as Talbot Carter
Flashing Guns (1947)
as Johnny Mack
Triggerman (1948)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Border Bandits (1946)
as Marshal Nevada
Lawless Land (1937)
as Ranger Jeff Hayden
Land of Liberty (1939)
as Billy the Kid (edited from 'Billy the Kid')
Six Gun Mesa (1950)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Marrying Widows (1934)
as The Husband
Belle of the Nineties (1934)
as Brooks Clayburn
Montana Moon (1930)
as Larry
Crazy House (1943)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Cross Streets (1934)
as Adam Blythe
Oklahoma Justice (1951)
as Johnny Mack Brown
The Secret Six (1931)
as Hank Rogers
Hell Town (1937)
as Tom Fillmore
A Woman of Affairs (1928)
as David Furness
Billy the Kid (1930)
as Billy the Kid
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)
as Self
Range Law (1944)
as U. S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Short Grass (1950)
as Sheriff Ord Keown
The Great Meadow (1931)
as Berk Jarvis (as John Mack Brown)
Code of the Saddle (1947)
as John Macklin
Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
as Ben Blaine
The Masked Rider (1941)
as Larry Prescott
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)
as (archive footage)
Valley of Fear (1947)
as Johnny Williams
The Crooked Trail (1936)
as Jim Blake
The Oregon Trail (1939)
as Jeff Scott
Guns in the Dark (1937)
as Johnny Darrel
Valley of the Lawless (1936)
as Bruce Reynolds
The Courageous Avenger (1935)
as Kirk Baxter
Female (1933)
as George P. Cooper
The Valiant (1929)
as Robert Ward
Square Crooks (1928)
as Larry Scott
Everyman's Law (1936)
as Johnny- aka The Dog Town Kid
Frontier Feud (1945)
as Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
Wild West Days (1937)
as Kentucky Wade
Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942)
as Steve Hardin
Law of the Range (1941)
as Steve Howard
The Silver Bullet (1942)
as Silver Jim Donovan
A Lady of Chance (1928)
as Steve Crandall
70,000 Witnesses (1932)
as Wally Clark
The Single Standard (1929)
as Tommy Hewlett
The Last Flight (1931)
as Bill Talbot
Western Renegades (1949)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Son of a Sailor (1933)
as 'Duke'
Bar-Z Bad Men (1937)
as Jim Waters
The Play Girl (1928)
as Bradley Lane
Law and Order (1940)
as Bill Ralston
St. Louis Woman (1934)
as Jim Warren
Coquette (1929)
as Michael Jeffery
Man from Montana (1941)
as Sheriff Bob Dawson
Fighting With Kit Carson (1933)
as Kit Carson
Branded a Coward (1935)
as Johnny Hume
Rustlers of Red Dog (1935)
as Jack Wood
Prairie Express (1947)
as Johnny Hudson
Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000)
as (archive footage)
Three on a Honeymoon (1934)
as Chuck Wells
Boss of Bullion City (1940)
as Tom Bryant
Stranger from Santa Fe (1945)
as U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie, posing as Roy Ferris
Texas City (1952)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Flames (1932)
as Charlie
Law of the West (1949)
as Federal Agent Johnny Mack
Law of the Panhandle (1950)
as U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown
Land of the Outlaws (1944)
as Marshal Nevada McKenzie
Under Arizona Skies (1946)
as Dusty Smith
The Bugle Call (1927)
as Bit (uncredited)
Drifting Along (1946)
as Steve Garner
Hurricane (1929)
as Dan
Dead Man's Trail (1952)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Boothill Brigade (1937)
as Lon Cardigan
Mockery (1927)
as Russian Officer (uncredited)
Land of the Lawless (1947)
as Johnny Mack
Law of the Valley (1944)
as Marshal Nevada McKenzie
Riders of Pasco Basin (1940)
as Lee Jamison
Silver Range (1946)
as Johnny Bronton
Shadows on the Range (1946)
as Steve Mason posing as Steve Saunders
A Lawman Is Born (1937)
as Tom Mitchell
The Marshal's Daughter (1953)
as Johnny Mack Brown - Poker-Game Player
Deep in the Heart of Texas (1942)
as Jim Mallory
The Gentleman from Texas (1946)
as Johnny Macklin
Rogue of the Range (1936)
as Dan Doran
Arizona Cyclone (1941)
as Tom Baxter
Outlaws of Stampede Pass (1943)
as Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Undercover Man (1936)
as Steve McLain
Oklahoma Frontier (1939)
as Jeff McLeod
Against the Law (1934)
as Steve Wayne
Trailing Danger (1947)
as Johnny
Range Justice (1949)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Gun Smoke (1945)
as Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
Son of Roaring Dan (1940)
as Jim Reardon (Posing as Horace McPhail)
The Ghost Rider (1943)
as Nevada Jack McKenzie
The Old Chisholm Trail (1942)
as Dusty Gardner
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
as Bob
Raiders of San Joaquin (1943)
as Rocky Morgan aka The Black Rider
Whistling Hills (1951)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Cheyenne Roundup (1943)
as Buck Brandon & Gils Brandon
The Haunted Mine (1946)
as Nevada Jack McKenzie
The Divine Woman (1928)
as Jean Lery
Raiders of the South (1947)
as Captain Brownell posing Johnny Langdon
Flame of the West (1945)
as Dr. John Poore
Over the Border (1950)
as Johnny Mack Brown
The Fighting Ranger (1948)
as Johnny Brown
Stampede (1949)
as Sheriff Aaron Ball
Overland Trails (1948)
as Johnny Murdock
Desperate Trails (1939)
as Steve Hayden
Flaming Frontiers (1938)
as Tex Houston
Soft Living (1928)
as Stockney Webb
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941)
as Joe Henderson
Trail of Vengeance (1937)
as Dude Ramsay
Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965)
as Enkoff
The Lone Star Trail (1943)
as Blaze Barker
Raiders of the Border (1944)
as Nevada Jack McKenzie
Saturday's Millions (1933)
as Alan Barry
After Midnight (1927)
as Party Boy (uncredited)
Canyon Ambush (1952)
as Johnny Mack Brown
The Navajo Trail (1945)
as Marshal Nevada McKenzie
West of El Dorado (1949)
as Johnny Mack
Between Men (1935)
as Johnny Wellington Jr.
Crossed Trails (1948)
as Johnny Mack
Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942)
as Steve Collins
The Vanishing Frontier (1933)
as Kirby Tornell
The Sheriff of Medicine Bow (1948)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Montana Desperado (1951)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Outlaw Gold (1950)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Law Men (1944)
as U.S. Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie
Jazz Heaven (1929)
as Barry Holmes
Ragtime Cowboy Joe (1940)
as Steve Logan
Hidden Danger (1948)
as Johnny Mack
Rawhide Rangers (1941)
as Brand Calhoun
West of Carson City (1940)
as Jim Bannister
Frontier Agent (1948)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)
as Self
Hollywood Halfbacks (1931)
Actor
Six Gun Gospel (1943)
as Marshal Jack McKenzie
Man from the Black Hills (1952)
as Johnny Mack Brown
The Texas Kid (1943)
as Jack McKenzie
Back Trail (1948)
as Johnny Mack
The Stranger From Pecos (1943)
as Nevada Jack McKenzie
Texas Lawmen (1951)
as Marshal Johnny Mack Brown
Gunning for Justice (1948)
as Johnny Mack
Ghost Guns (1944)
as Marshal Nevada McKenzie
Pony Post (1940)
as Cal Sheridan
Little Joe, the Wrangler (1942)
as Neal Wallace
The Lost Trail (1945)
as Marshal 'Nevada Jack' McKenzie
The Gambling Terror (1937)
as Jeff Hayes
Trigger Fingers (1946)
as Sam Hurricane Benton
West of Wyoming (1950)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Gun Talk (1947)
as Johnny McVey
West of the Rio Grande (1944)
as U.S. Marshal Nevada McKenzie
Man from Sonora (1951)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Fighting Bill Fargo (1941)
as Bill Fargo
Lasca of the Rio Grande (1931)
as Miles Kincaid
Trails End (1949)
as Johnny Mack
Blazing Bullets (1951)
as Johnny Mack Brown
Annapolis (1928)
as Bill
Bad Man from Red Butte (1940)
as Gils Brady / Buck Halliday
Undertow (1930)
as Paul Whalen
The Law Comes to Gunsight (1947)
as Johnny Mackey
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943)
as Wade Benson
Chip of the Flying U (1939)
as 'Chip' Bennett
Partners of the Trail (1944)
as Jack McKenzie