Clarence Brown
Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.
After serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the United States Army Air Service during World War I, Brown was given his first co-directing credit (with Tourneur) for The Great Redeemer (1920). Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall.
Brown moved to Universal in 1924, and then to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he remained until the mid-1950s. At MGM he was one of the main directors of their major female stars, he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.
Brown was nominated five times for six films (see below) for an Academy Award as a director, but he never received an Oscar. However, he won Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina, starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival.
Brown's films gained a total of 38 Academy Award nominations and earned nine Oscars. Brown himself received five Academy Award nominations for six films and in 1949, he won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust.
In 1957, Brown was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Brown retired a wealthy man due to his real estate investments, but refused to watch new movies, as he feared they might cause him to restart his career.
The Clarence Brown Theater, on the campus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director without a win, with six.
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Movies (64)
Fats Domino Live from Austin Texas
1986 · Batterie
Never Let Me Go
1953 · Producer
Plymouth Adventure
1952 · Director
When in Rome
1952 · Director
It's a Big Country
1951 · Director
Angels in the Outfield
1951 · Director, Producer
To Please a Lady
1950 · Director, Producer
Intruder in the Dust
1949 · Director, Producer
The Secret Garden
1949 · Producer
Song of Love
1947 · Director, Producer
The Yearling
1946 · Director
National Velvet
1945 · Director, Producer
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944 · Director, Producer
The Human Comedy
1943 · Director, Producer
They Met in Bombay
1941 · Director
Come Live with Me
1941 · Director
Edison, the Man
1940 · Director
The Rains Came
1939 · Director
Idiot's Delight
1939 · Director
Hollywood Goes to Town
1938 · Self
Of Human Hearts
1938 · Director
Conquest
1937 · Director
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · Director, Producer
Wife vs. Secretary
1936 · Director, Producer
Ah, Wilderness!
1935 · Director, Producer
Anna Karenina
1935 · Director
Chained
1934 · Director, Producer
Sadie McKee
1934 · Director
Night Flight
1933 · Director, Producer
Looking Forward
1933 · Director, Producer
The Son-Daughter
1932 · Director
Letty Lynton
1932 · Director
Emma
1932 · Director
Possessed
1931 · Man on Merry-Go-Round (uncredited), Director, Producer
A Free Soul
1931 · Director
Inspiration
1931 · Director, Producer
Romance
1930 · Director, Producer
Anna Christie
1930 · Director
Navy Blues
1929 · Roller Coaster Rider, Director, Producer
Wonder of Women
1929 · Director
A Woman of Affairs
1928 · Director
The Trail of '98
1928 · Director, Producer
Flesh and the Devil
1926 · Director
Kiki
1926 · Director, Producer
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925 · Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Eagle
1925 · Director
The Goose Woman
1925 · Director
Smouldering Fires
1925 · Director
Butterfly
1924 · Director
The Signal Tower
1924 · Switch Man, Director
The Acquittal
1923 · Director
Don't Marry for Money
1923 · Director
The Light in the Dark
1922 · Director, Writer
The Foolish Matrons
1921 · Director
The Last of the Mohicans
1920 · Co-Director
The Great Redeemer
1920 · Director
The Blue Bird
1918 · Editor
A Girl's Folly
1917 · Editor
The Pride of the Clan
1917 · Editor, Assistant Director
The Velvet Paw
1916 · Editor, Assistant Director
The Rail Rider
1916 · Editor, Assistant Director
The Closed Road
1916 · Assistant Director, Editor
The Hand of Peril
1916 · Editor
The Cub
1915 · Editor
