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.
Inspiration
(Director)
Conquest
(Director)
Never Let Me Go
(Producer)
Come Live with Me
(Director)
A Woman of Affairs
(Director)
Anna Christie
(Director)
Idiot's Delight
(Director)
Sadie McKee
(Director)
Edison, the Man
(Director)
Angels in the Outfield
(Director)
Flesh and the Devil
(Director)
Wife vs. Secretary
(Director)
National Velvet
(Director)
The Human Comedy
(Producer)
The Human Comedy
(Director)
The Yearling
(Director)
Chained
(Director)
Anna Karenina
(Director)
Intruder in the Dust
(Director)
Possessed
(Director)
The White Cliffs of Dover
(Director)
A Free Soul
(Director)
Plymouth Adventure
(Director)
It's a Big Country
(Director)
Night Flight
(Director)
Romance
(Director)
They Met in Bombay
(Director)
Emma
(Director)
Smouldering Fires
(Director)
Ah, Wilderness!
(Director)
Ah, Wilderness!
(Producer)
The Eagle
(Director)
Of Human Hearts
(Director)
The Rains Came
(Director)
The Gorgeous Hussy
(Director)
The Goose Woman
(Director)
Song of Love
(Director)
The Trail of '98
(Director)
The Light in the Dark
(Director)
The Light in the Dark
(Writer)
Letty Lynton
(Director)
Don't Marry for Money
(Director)
When in Rome
(Director)
To Please a Lady
(Director)
Kiki
(Director)
Wonder of Women
(Director)
The Son-Daughter
(Director)
The Signal Tower
(Director)
Navy Blues
(Producer)
Navy Blues
(Director)
Inspiration
(Producer)
Possessed
(Producer)
Looking Forward
(Director)
Looking Forward
(Producer)
Chained
(Producer)
The Blue Bird
(Editor)
The Great Redeemer
(Director)
The Foolish Matrons
(Director)
The Hand of Peril
(Editor)
The Gorgeous Hussy
(Producer)
Wife vs. Secretary
(Producer)
Kiki
(Producer)
Angels in the Outfield
(Producer)
The Pride of the Clan
(Editor)
The Pride of the Clan
(Assistant Director)
The White Cliffs of Dover
(Producer)
National Velvet
(Producer)
Butterfly
(Director)
To Please a Lady
(Producer)
Intruder in the Dust
(Producer)
The Secret Garden
(Producer)
The Acquittal
(Director)
The Closed Road
(Editor)
The Closed Road
(Assistant Director)
The Last of the Mohicans
(Co-Director)
The Rail Rider
(Editor)
The Rail Rider
(Assistant Director)
Romance
(Producer)
The Cub
(Editor)
Night Flight
(Producer)
A Girl's Folly
(Editor)
Song of Love
(Producer)
The Trail of '98
(Producer)