Russ Brown

Active - 1928 - 1963  |   Birth - May 30, 1892  |   Death - Oct 19, 1964  |   Genres - Comedy, Romance, Music, Drama, Comedy Drama | Subgenres - Musical, Baseball, Comedy Drama, Courtroom, Legal Drama

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Russell Brown 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 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.

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