Biography
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.
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Complete Filmography

Miracle on Ice
1981
as Reporter #1
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 contr...

The Swap
1979
as Lt. Benson
Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.

The Rebels
1979
as Masters
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthrigh...

Adiós Amigo
1975
as Sheriff
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxp...

Mean Johnny Barrows
1975
as Police Sergeant
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.

Whiffs
1975
as State Trooper
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 ...

Powderkeg
1971
as Sheriff Lynch
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 broth...

Targets
1968
as Robert Thompson Sr.
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
as Davis
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, Bruc...

Black Spurs
1965
as Sheriff
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 f...

Space Probe Taurus
1965
as Col. Hank Stevens
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 mete...

The Ceremony
1963
as Gendarme
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.

Irma la Douce
1963
as Texan Customer
When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.

Gun Street
1961
as Sheriff Chuck Morton
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
as Jerry Manning
An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.

When the Clock Strikes
1961
as Sam Morgan
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.

Gun Fight
1961
as Wayne Santley
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wa...

Wings of Chance
1961
as Steve Kirby
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...

Police Dog Story
1961
as Norm Edwards
After exhaustive training, a police dog joins an arson investigation.

Five Guns to Tombstone
1961
as Billy Wade
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 ...

Inside the Mafia
1959
as Capt. Doug Blair
A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.

The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
1958
as Lt. Ripley 'Rip' Masters
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.

A Star Is Born
1954
as Glenn Williams
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
1954
as Jim
A married couple watches a documentary program which presents the hazards children face in the home.

Crazylegs
1953
as Bill
The story of the life and career of football star Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch (who plays himself).

Thunder Over the Plains
1953
as Conrad
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 Ar...

The Charge at Feather River
1953
as Pvt. Connors
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.

Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
as Frank James
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're ...

The Man Behind The Gun
1953
as Lt. Catliff (uncredited)
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionist...

Springfield Rifle
1952
as Pvt. Ferguson (uncredited)
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipmen...

The Pride of St. Louis
1952
as Moose
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
as Sgt. Pop Davis
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 n...

The Sea Hornet
1951
as Pete Hunter
"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 wh...

Father Takes the Air
1951
as Bob
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 in...

The Groom Wore Spurs
1951
as Steve Hall
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 f...

Missing Women
1951
as Sgt. Mike Pernell
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
as Allen
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 ambit...

Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
as Officer Haynes (uncredited)
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 att...

Chain Lightning
1950
as Maj. Hinkle
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, ...

Montana
1950
as Tex Coyne
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
as PFC Charlie Bass
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 th...

Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949
as Tony Cresnovitch
At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.

Brimstone
1949
as Bud Courteen
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
as Buster
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...

The Younger Brothers
1949
as Bob Younger
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-a...

The Gallant Legion
1948
as Tom Banner
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 Co...

The Fabulous Texan
1947
as Shep Clayton
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...

The Big Fix
1947
as Ken Williams
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 a...

Our Hearts Were Growing Up
1946
as Avery Moore
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 frie...

Objective, Burma!
1945
as SSgt. Treacy
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 t...

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944
as Avery Moore
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 misadve...

Reward Unlimited
1944
as Paul
Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Going My Way
1944
as Ted Haines Jr.
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 r...

Corvette K-225
1943
as Lt. Paul Cartwright
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

The Good Fellows
1943
as Tom Drayton
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 forge...

Air Force
1943
as Pilot Tex Rader
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 t...

Young and Willing
1943
as Tony Dennison
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of ...

The Forest Rangers
1942
as George Tracy
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 prov...

Wake Island
1942
as Wounded Marine (uncredited)
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 b...