An image from Anatomy of a Murder, one of the productions that also features Russ Brown.

Russ Brown

May 30, 1892 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Russell Brown (May 30, 1892; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 19, 1964; Englewood, New Jersey) was an American Tony Award-winning actor of stage and film. Brown, a stage actor for decades, is best remembered by audiences as Captain Brackett in South Pacific (which he repeated in the movie version) and for his performances as 'Benny Van Buren' in the stage/film version of Damn Yankees in 1958, and the following year as park caretaker George Lemon in the classic courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder (1959). For his stage performance in "Damn Yankees!", he earned Broadway's Tony Award in 1956, as did actor Ray Walston, actress Gwen Verdon and her choreographer husband Bob Fosse, among others, all for the same Tony Award-winning musical.

Anatomy of a Murder

1959

South Pacific

1958

It Happened to Jane

1959

Damn Yankees

1958

Moulin Rouge

1934

Millionaire Playboy

1940

A Laugh or Two

1928

Sweet Surrender

1935