Rowland Brown

Chauncey Rowland Brown ( born November 6, 1897 in Akron, Ohio; † May 6, 1963 in Costa Mesa, California ) was an American screenwriter and film director.

Biography

Brown began in the late 1920s as a screenwriter and created the templates for twenty films. At the Academy Awards in 1931, he was first nominated for the Oscar for best original story and indeed for The Doorway to Hell ( 1930). A second nomination in this category, he received in 1939 for Chicago - Angels with Dirty Faces (1938).

Other films made by its templates were Quick Millions ( 1931), What Price Hollywood? (1932 ) and The Fourth Man ( 1952). Brown wrote this templates for film directors like Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz, George Cukor and Phil Karlson.

In Quick Millions he also directed. His other directing credits were Hell's Highway (1932 ) Blood Money (1933 ) and The Devil Is a Sissy (1936).