A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Canton, Ohio, U.S.
Born:
November 6, 1900
Died:
May 6, 1963
Rowland Brown (November 6, 1900 – May 6, 1963), born Chauncey Rowland Brown in Canton, Ohio, was an American screenwriter and film director, whose career as a director ended in the early 1930s after he started many more films than he finished. He walked out of State's Attorney (1932), starring John Barrymore. He was abruptly replaced as director of The Scarlet Pimpernel. As a writer, he was credited with twenty or so films including two Academy Award nominations, one in the 11th Academy Awards for Best Original Story Angels with Dirty Faces and another in the 4th Academy Awards for Doorway to Hell.
Additional Dialogue:
1950 The Nevadan
Dialogue:
1932 State's Attorney
1950 The Nevadan
Director:
1931 Quick Millions
1932 Hell's Highway
1932 State's Attorney
1933 Blood Money
1936 The Devil Is a Sissy
1950 The Nevadan
Scenario Writer:
1929 Points West
1931 Quick Millions
1932 Hell's Highway
1932 State's Attorney
1933 Blood Money
1936 The Devil Is a Sissy
1950 The Nevadan
Screenplay:
1929 Points West
1931 Quick Millions
1932 Hell's Highway
1932 State's Attorney
1933 Blood Money
1936 The Devil Is a Sissy
1940 Johnny Apollo
1950 The Nevadan
Story:
1929 Points West
1930 The Doorway to Hell
1931 Quick Millions
1932 Hell's Highway
1932 State's Attorney
1933 Blood Money
1936 The Devil Is a Sissy
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 Boy of the Streets
1940 Johnny Apollo
1946 Nocturne
1950 The Nevadan
1952 Kansas City Confidential
Writer:
1929 Fugitives
1929 Points West
1930 The Doorway to Hell
1931 Quick Millions
1931 Skyline
1932 Hell's Highway
1932 State's Attorney
1932 What Price Hollywood?
1933 Blood Money
1936 The Devil Is a Sissy
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 Boy of the Streets
1940 Johnny Apollo
1946 Nocturne
1950 The Nevadan
1952 Kansas City Confidential
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.