James Brown
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.736 |
Birthday | 1920-03-22 |
Place of Birth | Desdemona, Texas, USA |
Also Known As | Jim L. Brown, James L. Brown, James Bowen Brown, James B. Brown, J.B. Brown, James E. Brown, |
1965
Town Tamer
6.4/9
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, Bruc...
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Town Tamer
1945
Objective, Burma!
6.8/81
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 t...
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Objective, Burma!
1951
Missing Women
6.2/6
A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.
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Missing Women
1943
Air Force
6.3/53
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 t...
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Air Force
1944
Going My Way
6.7/171
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 r...
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Going My Way
1950
Sands of Iwo Jima
6.381/134
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 th...
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Sands of Iwo Jima
1950
The Fireball
5.8/9
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 ambit...
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The Fireball
1950
Chain Lightning
6.2/22
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,...
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Chain Lightning
1961
When the Clock Strikes
6.4/5
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
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When the Clock Strikes
1952
Springfield Rifle
5.9/32
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipmen...
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Springfield Rifle
1959
Inside the Mafia
5/5
A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.
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Inside the Mafia
1943
Young and Willing
0/0
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...
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Young and Willing
1949
The Younger Brothers
5/1
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-a...
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The Younger Brothers
1965
Black Spurs
6/15
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 f...
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Black Spurs
1951
The Wild Blue Yonder
6/1
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 n...
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The Wild Blue Yonder
1953
The Charge at Feather River
5.6/6
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
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The Charge at Feather River
1961
20,000 Eyes
3.5/2
An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.
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20,000 Eyes
1949
Anna Lucasta
4.3/3
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...
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Anna Lucasta
1947
The Fabulous Texan
4/1
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...
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The Fabulous Texan
1961
Gun Street
3.7/3
A sheriff goes in pursuit of an escaped convict who is bent on paying back the people responsible for his imprisonment.
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Gun Street
1961
Five Guns to Tombstone
5.2/6
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...
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Five Guns to Tombstone
1961
Police Dog Story
0/0
After exhaustive training, a police dog joins an arson investigation.
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Police Dog Story
1961
Gun Fight
4.5/2
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wa...
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Gun Fight
1944
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
7.3/3
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 misadve...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1965
Space Probe Taurus
3.8/13
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 mete...
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Space Probe Taurus
1949
Brimstone
6.5/2
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
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Brimstone
1954
Hazard House
0/0
A married couple watches a documentary program which presents the hazards children face in the home.
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Hazard House
1975
Mean Johnny Barrows
5.4/10
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
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Mean Johnny Barrows
1979
The Swap
3.7/12
Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.
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The Swap
1953
Thunder Over the Plains
5.4/15
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 Ar...
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Thunder Over the Plains
1942
Wake Island
5.6/24
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 b...
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Wake Island
1953
Woman They Almost Lynched
6.2/19
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...
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Woman They Almost Lynched
1949
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
4/1
At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.
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Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
6.2/2
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 frie...
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1953
Crazylegs
5/3
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).
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Crazylegs
1979
The Rebels
0/0
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthrigh...
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The Rebels
1981
Miracle on Ice
6/10
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 contr...
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Miracle on Ice
1950
Between Midnight and Dawn
5.8/26
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 att...
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Between Midnight and Dawn
1942
The Forest Rangers
0/0
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 prov...
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The Forest Rangers
1943
The Good Fellows
0/0
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 forge...
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The Good Fellows
1952
The Pride of St. Louis
6.9/8
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Pride of St. Louis
1968
Targets
7/202
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
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Targets
1951
The Groom Wore Spurs
4.9/8
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 f...
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The Groom Wore Spurs
1951
The Sea Hornet
5/2
"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 wh...
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The Sea Hornet
1948
The Gallant Legion
7/3
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 Co...
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The Gallant Legion
1950
Montana
5.6/15
An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
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Montana
1971
Powderkeg
8/1
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 broth...
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Powderkeg
1958
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
10/1
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.
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The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
1953
The Man Behind The Gun
5.7/9
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionist...
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The Man Behind The Gun
1943
Corvette K-225
6.2/11
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Corvette K-225
1944
Reward Unlimited
0/0
Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Reward Unlimited
1975
Whiffs
7.1/7
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...
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Whiffs
1951
Father Takes the Air
5/1
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 in...
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Father Takes the Air
1947
The Big Fix
0/0
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 a...
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The Big Fix
1963
The Ceremony
5.1/9
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
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The Ceremony
1961
Wings of Chance
0/0
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...
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Wings of Chance
1975
Adiós Amigo
3.7/3
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxp...
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Adiós Amigo
1963
Irma la Douce
7.4/409
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.
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Irma la Douce
1954
A Star Is Born
7.1/294
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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