Karl Brown


Director

About

Birth Place
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA
Born
December 26, 1896
Died
March 25, 1990
Cause of Death
Kidney Failure

Family & Companions

Edna May Cooper
Wife
Actor, aviator. Deceased.

Bibliography

"Adventures With D. W. Griffith"
Karl Brown (1973)
"The Cup of Trembling"
Karl Brown (1959)

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Barefoot Boy (1938)
Director
Under the Big Top (1938)
Director
The Port of Missing Girls (1938)
Director
Numbered Woman (1938)
Director
Michael O'Halloran (1937)
Director
Federal Bullets (1937)
Director
In His Steps (1936)
Director
Angels in White (1936)
Director
Flames (1932)
Director
Prince of Diamonds (1930)
Director
Stark Love (1927)
Director
His Dog (1927)
Director

Cast (Feature Film)

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993)

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Mannequin (1926)
Director of Photography
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
Director of Photography
Marry Me (1925)
Director of Photography
The Goose Hangs High (1925)
Director of Photography
The Pony Express (1925)
Director of Photography
Welcome Home (1925)
Director of Photography
The Fighting Coward (1924)
Director of Photography
Merton of the Movies (1924)
Director of Photography
The Garden of Weeds (1924)
Director of Photography
The Covered Wagon (1924)
Camera
The Enemy Sex (1924)
Director of Photography
The City That Never Sleeps (1924)
Director of Photography
To the Ladies (1923)
Director of Photography
Thirty Days (1923)
Director of Photography
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
Director of Photography
Hollywood (1923)
Director of Photography
The Old Homestead (1922)
Director of Photography
Is Matrimony a Failure? (1922)
Director of Photography
The Dictator (1922)
Director of Photography
One Glorious Day (1922)
Director of Photography
The Dollar-a-Year Man (1921)
Director of Photography
The Traveling Salesman (1921)
Director of Photography
Crazy To Marry (1921)
Director of Photography
Brewster's Millions (1921)
Director of Photography
The Fourteenth Man (1920)
Camera
The Life of the Party (1920)
Camera
The City of Masks (1920)
Camera
Always Audacious (1920)
Assistant Camera
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
2nd Camera
Battling Jane (1918)
Camera
Hearts of the World (1918)
2nd Camera
Her Official Fathers (1917)
Camera
Stagestruck (1917)
Camera
Intolerance (1916)
2nd Camera
The Traveling Salesman (1916)
Camera

Writer (Feature Film)

The Vanquished (1953)
Based on a Story by
The Chicago Kid (1945)
Based on an Original story by
The Ape Man (1943)
Original Story
Hitler--Dead or Alive (1943)
Screenwriter
Phantom Killer (1942)
Screenwriter
Prairie Pioneers (1941)
Original idea
Under Fiesta Stars (1941)
Story
Mr. District Attorney (1941)
Original Screenplay
Under Fiesta Stars (1941)
Screenwriter
Rookies on Parade (1941)
Screenwriter
Harvard, Here I Come (1941)
Story
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941)
Screenwriter
Before I Hang (1940)
Story
Military Academy (1940)
Screenwriter
Girl from Havana (1940)
Original Screenplay
Gangs of Chicago (1940)
Original Screenplay
The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Screenwriter
My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Story
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Screenwriter
A Woman Is the Judge (1939)
Original Screenplay
Gangster's Boy (1938)
Story
The Port of Missing Girls (1938)
Screenplay and story
Join the Marines (1937)
Original Story
Girl Loves Boy (1937)
Story
Federal Bullets (1937)
Adaptation
Hearts in Bondage (1936)
Adaptation
In His Steps (1936)
Screenwriter
Angels in White (1936)
Original Screenplayeen story and Screenplay
The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)
Screenwriter
City Park (1934)
Story and cont
Stolen Sweets (1934)
Story and cont
One in a Million (1934)
Screenplay and dial
The Curtain Falls (1934)
Story and Screenplay
Fast Workers (1933)
Cont
Flames (1932)
Story
The Mississippi Gambler (1929)
Story
Stark Love (1927)
Writer

Producer (Feature Film)

Stark Love (1927)
Producer

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Thirty Days (1922)
Photography

Sound (Special)

The AIDS Show: Artists Involved With Death and Survival (1986)
Sound Designer

Life Events

1912

Began career as lab assistant

1914

First film as assistant cameraman

1926

First film as writer and director

Companions

Edna May Cooper
Wife
Actor, aviator. Deceased.

Bibliography

"Adventures With D. W. Griffith"
Karl Brown (1973)
"The Cup of Trembling"
Karl Brown (1959)