Neville Brand

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Lawrence Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992) was an American actor.

In Stalag 17 (1953), Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), two of his best film roles were in Stalag 17 (1953).

Brand was also a highly decorated World War II combat soldier.

Early life

Neville Brand was born in Griswold, Iowa, one of seven children of Leo Thomas Brand and the late Helen Louise Davis. In Detroit, his father served as an electrician and bridge building ironworker. Neville was born in Kewanee, Illinois, where he attended high school. He was a tutor, waiter, and shoe salesman in Kewanee, helping the family.

Personal life

Brand and his partner, Rae, had three children together.

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Brand was an insatiable reader who amassed 30,000 books over the years, making it one of Los Angeles's largest private libraries. In a 1978 fire at his Malibu home, the majority of his collection was destroyed.

His wartime service left him post-traumatic stress disorder that culminated in bouts of alcoholism. In 1975, he said in an interview that heroin cost him the most of his fortune.

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Acting career

Brand appeared on a 1946 Army Signal Corps film with Charlton Heston, and then enrolled in Greenwich Village and enrolled at the American Theatre Wing, working off-Broadway, including Jean-Paul Sartre's The Victors. On the G.I., he also attended the Geller Drama School in Los Angeles. Bill is a bill that can be voted on by the state of Illinois.

In Battleground (1949) and Port of New York (1949), the brand had an uncredited role. D.O.A. was his first creditable appearance. Chester, a henchman, appeared in 1950 as a henchman. His hulking physique, rough-hewn, craggy-faced eyes, and gravelly voice culminated in his continued appearances in gangsters, Western outlaws, and various television "heavies" (cops and other demanding roles throughout his career.

Brand was uncredited in My Foolish Heart (1949), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) (both starring Dana Andrews), and happily Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, where he appears in a significant role as James Cagney's fellow chain gang prisoner (1950). (1950) Butcher later appeared on television in The Bigelow Theatre.

The brand's presence has gradually increased: Halls of Montezuma (1951), Only the Valiant (1951), and the Red Mountain (1951).

On television, he did a short, Benjy (1951), and episodes of The Unexpected and Your Favorite Story. He was in Kansas City Confidential (1952), The Turning Point (1952), and, particularly, Stalag 17 (1953).

Since being a support actor on The Charge at Feather River (1953), The Man from the Alamo (1953), and Gun Fury (1953), the brand was now in high demand.

With Man Crazy (1953) and then Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), the brand soared to top roles. At the 8th British Academy Film Awards, the actor in charge of a prison uprising was nominated for Best Foreign Actor, but he lost to Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront. Brand was downplayed on the cast list for The Lone Gun (1954), but Return from the Sea (1954) took the lead.

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He appeared in Bobby Ware Is Missing (1955) and Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956), as well as in Raw Edge (1956) and Mohawk (1956).

In the film The Three Outlaws opposite Alan Hale Jr. as the Sundance Kid, he was the first actor to play outlaw Butch Cassidy. Despite that not the big-budget romp that the later Paul Newman-Robert Redford film was shot as, a rare departure from Brand's typecasting as a violent psychopath. He followed it with Gun Brothers (1956).

When Brand killed the character played by Elvis Presley in his debut film Love Me Tender (1956), he became well-known as a villain. He was in the Way to the Gold (1957), The Lonely Man (1957), The Tin Star (1957), Cry Terror. (1958), and Badman's Country (1958).

He appeared on television shows including Climax!, Playhouse 90, Target, and, most notable, an adaptation of All the King's Men for Kraft Theatre, directed by Sidney Lumet, for which he received a Sylvania Award in 1958.

Brand appeared on The Texan, Pursuit, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, and The Dupont Show of the Month (doing Body and Soul with Ben Gazzara).

Al Capone appeared on the television show "The Untouchables" in the pilot and in the double episode "The Big Train," as well as infrequent glimpses of flashback throughout the series.

Brand was in Five Gates to Hell (1959), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960), The Last Sunset (1961), and The George Raft Story (1961), with the latter actor reprising his role as Al Capone.

He appeared on Straightaway, Death Valley Days, The Joey Bishop Exhibition, Naked City, The DuPont Show of the Week, Ben Casey, Rawhide, The Lieutenant, Theatre of Stars, Apprehended and convicted, Susmoke, Combat, Bonanza, and The Virginian.

He also played a jail guard of Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and was second billed on Hero's Island (1962) and was a central figure in That Darn Cat. (1965) a.k.a.

In "The Encounter," a 1964 episode of the Twilight Zone, Brand co-starred George Takei as a World War II soldier. The episode's theme of US-Japanese hatred was too traumatic to include when the show was syndicated, according to CBS. "The Encounter" was not seen on television until it was released on television in 1992 as part of the Treasures of the Twilight Zone collection.

In a television series called Lava (1965–67), which ran for 56 episodes, the brand was given the lead.

In an episode of the television show Daniel Boone, the brand played a heartwarming character who was brain injured and misunderstood. Tarzan guest star Michael Huda.

As he tried to warn his commander of Tora's opening skirmish, he was in The Desperados (1969) and played U.S. Navy Lieutenant Kaminsky.

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Brand was seen in Westward the Wagon (1971), Lock, Stock, and Bart (1971), The Chicago Teddy Bears, Marriage: Year One and The Smith Family. In the episode "The Last Viking," he appeared on Hoss Cartwright's (Dan Blocker) Swedish uncle Gunnar Borgstrom.

He was in Longstreet, Alias Smith and Jones, Adventures of Nick Carter, Marcus Welby, M.D., and Two for the Money (1972), Cahill, United States. (1972), This Is a Hijack (1973), The Police Connection (1972), A Hijack (1973). Marshal (1973) with John Wayne, Scalawag (1973), The Magician (1973), Death Stalk (1974), Richard Harris, Killdozer (1975), Police Woman, Barbary Coast, Kojak, McCloud, Psychic Killer (1975), The Quest (1975), Captains and the Kings, The Quest (1973), The King (1975), The Greatest (1973), The King (1973), The Wizard (1973), The Quest (1973), The Knight, (1973)

In Eaten Alive (1976), directed by Tobe Hooper, the brand was top-billed.

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(1977) The Mouse and His Child (1977), Baretta, Captains Courageous, Man from Atlantis, Quincy M.E., The Seekers and Hi-Riders (1978). He was instrumental in Five Days from Home (1978), directed by George Peppard (1978), as well as in Angels' Brigade (1979).

In 1980, Brand Marvin Groper appeared in The Ninth Configuration, which was written and directed by William Peter Blatty.

Fantasy Island, Without Warning (1980), Harper Valley P.T.A., and The Return (1982) were among his final appearances. In his last film, Evils of the Night (1985), he was top billed.

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