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Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley,[2] played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, both "Gillis" and Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, (a role he reprised for the first incarnation of the television show), "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, and "Thorny" the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Perhaps his most memorable piece of work is the ‘Broadway’ role; once heard, many find it impossible to think of the narrator of Damon Runyon’s stories as anyone else. It was a measure of Brown’s talent that this quintessentially American character was portrayed by an Englishman. Brown appeared in some notable films: as the inebriated professor in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, uncredited), and The Wild One (1953); he supplied the voice of "Ro-Man" in the 1953 cult science fiction B-film Robot Monster.

Known For

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Narrator / Pee Wee Runt (voice) (uncredited)

Dixieland Droopy

1954

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Bill Hannegan

The Wild One

1953

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The Bigamist

1953

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Mr. Duncan

Man Crazy

1953

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Keller

Crazylegs

1953

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Service Station Attendant (uncredited)

Jennifer

1953

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Ro-Man / Great Guidance (voice)

Robot Monster

1953

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Schoolmaster

Hans Christian Andersen

1952

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Mr. Murdoch

I Love Lucy

1951

7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

Credits

Dixieland Droopy

as Narrator / Pee Wee Runt (voice) (uncredited)

1954

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The Wild One

as Bill Hannegan

1953

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The Bigamist

1953

6.4

Man Crazy

as Mr. Duncan

1953

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Crazylegs

as Keller

1953

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Jennifer

as Service Station Attendant (uncredited)

1953

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Robot Monster

as Ro-Man / Great Guidance (voice)

1953

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Hans Christian Andersen

as Schoolmaster

1952

6.3

I Love Lucy

as Mr. Murdoch

1951

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

as George Barley, boarder

1951

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Strangers on a Train

as Prof. Collins

1951

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Symphony in Slang

as The Hipster / Noah Webster (voice) (uncredited)

1951

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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

as Harry Morton

1950

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The Life of Riley

as Digger O'Dell

1949

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The Stranger

as Passport Photographer (uncredited)

1946

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The Horn Blows at Midnight

as Lou the waiter (uncredited)

1945

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A Peach of a Pair

as John

1934

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Heritage

as Narrator

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