Rand Brooks
Arlington Rand Brooks Jr. (September 21, 1918 – September 1, 2003) was an American film and television actor.
Brooks was born in Wright City, Missouri. He was the son of Arlington Rand Brooks, a farmer. His mother and he moved to Los Angeles when he was four, though he continued to spend summers in Wright City. Brooks continued to make visits to his hometown of Wright City into the 1950s, up to and following the death of his father in 1950. His mother and his grandfather were actors.
After leaving school, Brooks got a screen test at MGM and was given a bit part in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). His big fame came with his part as Charles Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), a role which he later admitted he despised; he wanted to play more macho parts. He made $100 per week under contract at MGM, but when he was on loan to Selznick International Pictures for Gone with the Wind, he made $500 per week.
After Gone With the Wind, he had relatively small parts in other movies including Babes in Arms, then a regular role as Lucky in the Hopalong Cassidy series of Westerns in the mid-1940s; Brooks succeeded Russell Hayden in the role. Among the films, which starred William Boyd as Hopalong, were Hoppy's Holiday, The Dead Don't Dream, and Borrowed Trouble. He received positive notice for his work in Fool's Gold, with Variety reporting that he did "an excellent job." In edited, half-hour versions of some of the films, he appeared in 12 of the 52 episodes of the Hopalong Cassidy television series.
In 1948, he co-starred with Adele Jergens and Marilyn Monroe in the low-budget, black-and-white Columbia Pictures film, Ladies of the Chorus. Brooks became the first actor to share an on-screen kiss with Monroe, who in a few years was one of the world's biggest movie stars. Filmed in just 10 days, the film was released soon after its completion. Variety called his performance in the 1952 film The Steel Fist "capable."
Television brought new opportunities, again often in Westerns. He played Cpl. Randy Boone in the 1950s television series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Brooks had guest roles in 1950s Western series, including Mackenzie's Raiders, The Lone Ranger, Maverick, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza. He appeared twice on the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, as well as on CBS's Perry Mason courtroom drama series.
In 1962, he directed and produced a movie about brave dogs, Bearheart, but the film was entangled in legal troubles due to his business manager's involvement in crimes such as forgery and graft. The film was finally released in 1978, under the title Legend of the Northwest.
After he left show business, Brooks ran a private ambulance company in Glendale, California. He commented that he "died in more pictures than almost anyone" and that though he was never very big in show business, he was willing to return to it. Brooks sold the ambulance company in 1994, and retired to his ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, where he bred champion Andalusian horses. He attended a Gone with the Wind reunion for Clark Gable's birthday, along with Ann Rutherford and Fred Crane, in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1992.
On September 1, 2003, Brooks died in Santa Ynez, California.
Fotos
Películas (76)
Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West
1991 · Cpl. Boone
Legend of the Northwest
1978 · Director, Story
The Sex Symbol
1974 · Edward Kelly (voice)
The King's Pirate
1967 · Dialogue Coach
In Like Flint
1967 · Missle Control Officer (uncredited)
Requiem for a Gunfighter
1965 · Abe Gentry
Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
1962 · Quint Rucker
Comanche Station
1960 · Station Man
Stump Run
1960
The Last Hurrah
1958 · Votes Tallyman (uncredited)
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin
1958
Crash of Moons
1954 · Andrews
Silver Needle in the Sky
1954 · Ranger Andrews
Born to the Saddle
1953 · John Grant
The Maverick
1952 · Trooper Barnham
Behind Southern Lines
1952 · Captain Loomis
Montana Incident
1952 · Dave Connors
Man from the Black Hills
1952 · Fake Jimmy Fallon
Waco
1952 · Al
The Cimarron Kid
1952 · Emmett Dalton (uncredited)
The Steel Fist
1952 · Captain Giorg Nicholoff
The Gunman
1952 · Jud Calvert
Yukon Manhunt
1951 · Len Kaufman
Heart of the Rockies
1951 · Jim Corley
Bunco Squad
1950 · Robert (uncredited)
Riding High
1950 · Henry Early
The Vanishing Westerner
1950 · Sanderson's First Victim
Black Midnight
1949 · Daniel Jordan
The Wyoming Bandit
1949 · Jimmy Howard
Ladies of the Chorus
1948 · Randy Carroll
Joan of Arc
1948 · Jean d'Arc, Joan's older brother
Sundown in Santa Fe
1948 · Tom Wyatt
Strange Gamble
1948 · Lucky Jenkins
False Paradise
1948 · Lucky Jenkins
Borrowed Trouble
1948 · Lucky Jenkins
Sinister Journey
1948 · Lucky Jenkins
The Dead Don't Dream
1948 · Lucky Jenkins
Silent Conflict
1948 · Lucky Jenkins
Kilroy Was Here
1947 · Rodney Meadows
Hoppy's Holiday
1947 · Lucky Jenkins
The Marauders
1947 · Lucky Jenkins
Dangerous Venture
1947 · Lucky Jenkins
Unexpected Guest
1947 · Lucky Jenkins
The Devil's Playground
1946 · Lucky Jenkins
Fool's Gold
1946 · Lucky Jenkins
The Harvey Girls
1946 · Townsman at Saloon (uncredited)
The Great Morgan
1945 · Film Character (uncredited)
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944 · Pilot
Lady in the Dark
1944 · Ben (uncredited)
Ditch and Live
1944 · T / Sgt. Ryan
High Explosive
1943 · Jimmy Baker
Air Force
1943 · Co-Pilot (uncredited)
The Sombrero Kid
1942 · Philip Martin
Fingers at the Window
1942 · Young Reporter (uncredited)
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
Cowboy Serenade
1942 · Jim Agnew
Niagara Falls
1941 · Honeymooner
Lady Scarface
1941 · James 'Jimmy' Powell
Double Date
1941 · Jerry Baldwin
Life with Henry
1941 · Daniel Gordon (uncredited)
Jennie
1940 · Karl Schermer
The Son of Monte Cristo
1940 · Hans Mirbach
The Girl from Avenue A
1940 · Steve
Florian
1940 · Victor
And One Was Beautiful
1940 · Joe Havens
Northwest Passage
1940 · Eben Towne
Laddie
1940 · Peter Dover
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things
1940 · Mechanic (uncredited)
Gone with the Wind
1939 · Charles Hamilton
Balalaika
1939 · Crying Soldier (uncredited)
Babes in Arms
1939 · Jeff Steele
Dancing Co-Ed
1939 · Steve (uncredited)
Thunder Afloat
1939 · Listener (uncredited)
The Old Maid
1939 · Jim
Dramatic School
1938 · Pasquel Jr.
Love Finds Andy Hardy
1938 · Young Man on Bandstand (uncredited)
Series (42)
Colombo
1971 · Jerry - Wine Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Adam-12
1968 · Mr. Edwards, Bus Driver, Mr. Marshall
The Green Hornet
1966 · Conway
The Munsters
1964 · The Man
12 O'Clock High
1964 · Finance Officer
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Ernest Belden
Combat!
1962 · G.I. Lieutenant
The Virginian
1962 · Henry
My Three Sons
1960 · Frank Walker, Ed Henson
Hawaiian Eye
1959 · Agent
Bonanza
1959 · Cowboy
Tightrope
1959 · Young Man
Bat Masterson
1958 · Willard Wynant
Peter Gunn
1958
Jefferson Drum
1958 · Ray Comstock
Tombstone Territory
1957 · Ed
The Real McCoys
1957 · Mr. Foster
Maverick
1957 · Second at Duel (uncredited), Jack Blair
Perry Mason
1957 · Trainer, Ted Richert
M Squad
1957 · Purser
Wagon Train
1957 · Thomas Pope
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Banker Wilson
The Man Called X
1956
Highway Patrol
1955 · Bill Rinker
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955
Gunsmoke
1955 · Rand, Man
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955 · Sheriff Del Mathey
The Millionaire
1955 · Allan Carter
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Baseball Coach (uncredited)
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954 · Cpl. Boone, Cpl. Boone (uncredited)
Studio 57
1954
Lassie
1954 · Bulldozer Operator
City Detective
1953
The Roy Rogers Show
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Boston Blackie
1951 · Hutch
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · Capt. Loomis, Ed Chandler, Bob Purdy, Ben Webb, Ob Wilkins
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Uncle George
The Cisco Kid
1950 · Clint Riley
The Gene Autry Show
1950 · Jeff Elwood, Young Deputy
The Lone Ranger
1949 · Dick Larrabee, Deputy Jim Tyler, Marshal Roy Bell, Private Phillips, Private Jack Carey, Al Sommers, Express Rider, Lieutenant Tipton, Ben