Known for Acting
James Brown (March 22, 1920 - April 11, 1992) was an American film and TV actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. In 1976, he hosted a revival of Rin Tin Tin reruns, which extended until the 1980s.
Born
March 22, 1920
Died
April 11, 1992 (age 72)
Birthplace
Desdemona, Texas, USA
Filmography
60 films, 11 shows


The Summer of Love
2017
country: United Kingdom
In 1967 an expressive, colourful musical force painted a backdrop of social change, fashion, love, turmoil and war. The world remembers the Summer of Love in 1967 as one of those moments when a unique and creative explosion of music and popular culture arrived in the UK and USA.


Miracle on Ice
1981 · 2h 12m
country: United States
The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.


The Swap
1979 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.


Adiós Amigo
1975 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as a blundering patsy to Richard Pryor's slick con man.


Mean Johnny Barrows
1975 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.


Whiffs
1975 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.


Powderkeg
1971 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his brother is released. Now both the Americans and Mexicans are baffled as to what to do. One of the passengers — who wrote the letter for their captor — has a suggestion: call mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reech. They do, and as expected they do come up with a plan, but the president of the railroad is not sure if it will work.


Targets
1968 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.


Town Tamer
1965 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.


Black Spurs
1965 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.


Space Probe Taurus
1965 · 1h 21m
country: United States
In the year 2000, the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world.


The Ceremony
1963 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.


Irma la Douce
1963 · 2h 27m
country: United States
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.


Gun Street
1961 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A sheriff goes in pursuit of an escaped convict who is bent on paying back the people responsible for his imprisonment.


20,000 Eyes
1961 · 1h 1m
country: United States
An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.


When the Clock Strikes
1961 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.


Gun Fight
1961 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.


Wings of Chance
1961 · 1h 16m
country: Canada
Red Kirby is a seasoned bush pilot. When he crash lands his plane near a remote lake in northern Alberta, he is initially optimistic that he will soon be rescued. However, as the months drag by, Kirby realizes that he must take his fate into his own hands. To combat the loneliness, he befriends a family of Canada geese.


Police Dog Story
1961 · 1h 2m
country: United States
After exhaustive training, a police dog joins an arson investigation.


Five Guns to Tombstone
1961 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Billy Wade is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt, not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces Billy's participation with an offer he cannot refuse, unaware that Billy is actually working on the side of the law.


Inside the Mafia
1959 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.


The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
1958 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The 101st Cavalry discover the survivors of an Apache raid on a wagon train. Feature film from The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin TV show.


Jet Pilot
1957 · 1h 52m
country: United States
U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan.


A Star Is Born
1954 · 2h 56m
country: United States
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Hazard House
Hazard House
1954 · 11m
country: Unknown
A married couple watches a documentary program which presents the hazards children face in the home.


Crazylegs
1953 · 1h 27m
country: United States
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).


Thunder Over the Plains
1953 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.


The Charge at Feather River
1953 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.


Woman They Almost Lynched
1953 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Led by its female mayor, a neutral town on the Arkansas-Missouri border during the Civil War attempts to stay peaceful. A newcomer looking for her brother is pulled into the town’s violence.


The Man Behind The Gun
1953 · 1h 22m
country: United States
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.


Springfield Rifle
1952 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.


The Pride of St. Louis
1952 · 1h 33m
country: United States
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.


The Wild Blue Yonder
1951 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.


The Sea Hornet
1951 · 1h 24m
country: United States
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan


Father Takes the Air
1951 · 1h 1m
country: United States
In the fifth and final movie in Monogram's "Father" series, Henry Latham and Mayor Colton dream of reliving their WWI flying careers, leading to an increasingly antagonistic competition.


The Groom Wore Spurs
1951 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.


Missing Women
1951 · 1h
country: United States
A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.


The Fireball
1950 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.


Between Midnight and Dawn
1950 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.


Chain Lightning
1950 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.


Montana
1950 · 1h 16m
country: United States
An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.


Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.


Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949 · 1h 22m
country: United States
At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.


Brimstone
1949 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.


Anna Lucasta
1949 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.


The Younger Brothers
1949 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.


The Gallant Legion
1948 · 1h 28m
country: United States
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.


The Fabulous Texan
1947 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.


The Big Fix
1947 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Ken Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring attempting to fix basketball games by bribing the players.


Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Russell and Lynn are a pair of college students in the 1920s. They get mixed up with kind-hearted bootlegger Donlevy who helps them get their boy friends back.


Objective, Burma!
1945 · 2h 22m
country: United States
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.


Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944 · 1h 21m
country: United States
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.


Reward Unlimited
1944 · 11m
country: United States
Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.


Going My Way
1944 · 2h 6m
country: United States
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.


Corvette K-225
1943 · 1h 38m
country: United States
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.


The Good Fellows
1943 · 1h 10m
country: United States
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.


Air Force
1943 · 2h 4m
country: United States
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.


Young and Willing
1943 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A group of young stage hopefuls tries to persuade a theatrical producer to give them their big chance at stardom.


The Forest Rangers
1942 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.


Wake Island
1942 · 1h 27m
country: United States
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.