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Lawrence Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992) was an American soldier and actor.[1] He was known for playing villainous or antagonistic character roles in Westerns, crime dramas, and films noir, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his performance in Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954).

Neville Brand
Brand in 1966
Born	Lawrence Neville Brand (1920-08-13)August 13, 1920 Griswold, Iowa, U.S.
Died	April 16, 1992(1992-04-16) (aged 71) Sacramento, California, U.S.
Resting place	East Lawn Memorial Park
Education	American Theatre Wing
Occupation	Soldier actor
Years active	1949–1985
Spouse(s)	Jean Enfield (m. 19??; div. 1955) Laura Rae Araujo (m. 1957; div. 1969) Mae Brand (m. 19??; d. 1992)
Children	3
Military career
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	Illinois Army National Guard  United States Army
Years of service	1939–41 (National Guard) 1941–45 (Army)
Rank	Sergeant
Unit	129th Infantry Regiment 83rd Infantry Division 331st Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	World War II European Theater of Operations Battle of the Bulge Siegfried Line campaign Central European campaign

During World War II, Brand served in the 331st Infantry Regiment of the 83rd Infantry Division in the U.S. Army, in the European theatre. He received multiple meritorious citations for his service, including the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.

Early life

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Neville Brand was born in Griswold, Iowa, one of seven children of Leo Thomas Brand and the former Helen Louise Davis. His father had worked as an electrician and bridge-building ironworker in Detroit. Neville was raised in Kewanee, Illinois, where he attended high school. After his schooling he helped support the family, employed as a soda jerk, waiter, and shoe salesman in Kewanee.

War service

Brand entered the Illinois Army National Guard on October 23, 1939, as a private in Company F, 129th Infantry Regiment. He was enlisted in the United States Army as Corporal Neville L. Brand, infantryman on March 5, 1941.

He trained at Fort Carson and served in World War II, seeing action with B company, 331st Infantry Regiment of the 83rd Infantry Division (Thunderbolt Division) in the Ardennes, Rhineland and Central European campaigns. Brand, a sergeant and platoon leader, was wounded in action along the Weser River on April 7, 1945. He was shot in the upper right arm and nearly bled to death.

Brand was awarded the Silver Star, the third-highest decoration for valor in the U.S. military, for gallantry in combat. His other awards and decorations were the Purple Heart, the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three Battle Stars, one Overseas Service Bar, one Service Stripe and the Combat Infantryman Badge. In a 1966 interview Brand explained the Silver Star, stating that withering fire from German machine guns in a hunting lodge kept him and his unit pinned down. "I must have flipped my lid," he said. "I decided to go into that lodge." He was discharged in October 1945.

Brand was sometimes cited in media reports as the 4th most-decorated American serviceman of the war, but this was incorrect and repeatedly denied by Brand himself.

Medals and ribbons

Silver Star

Purple Heart

Good Conduct Medal (United States)

American Defense Service Medal

European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal

Combat Infantryman Badge

Acting career

Early roles

After his discharge, Brand worked on a 1946 Army Signal Corps film with Charlton Heston and next settled in Greenwich Village and enrolled at the American Theatre Wing, working off-Broadway, including Jean-Paul Sartre's The Victors. He also attended the Geller Drama School in Los Angeles on the G.I. Bill.[2]

Brand had an uncredited bit in Battleground (1949) and Port of New York (1949). His first credited part was in D.O.A. (1950) as a henchman named Chester. His hulking physique, rough-hewn, craggy-faced looks and gravelly voice led to his largely playing gangsters, Western outlaws and various screen "heavies", cops and other tough-guy roles throughout his career.

Brand was uncredited in My Foolish Heart (1949), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) (both starring Dana Andrews), and curiously Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye where he plays a significant early role as James Cagney's fellow chain gang inmate, (1950) but had a good role on TV in The Bigelow Theatre.

Brand's parts slowly grew bigger: Halls of Montezuma (1951), Only the Valiant (1951), The Mob (1951), and Red Mountain (1951).

On TV 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, notably, Stalag 17 (1953).[3]

Brand was now much in demand as a support actor, appearing in The Charge at Feather River (1953), The Man from the Alamo (1953), and Gun Fury (1953).

Leading man

Brand moved up to leading roles with Man Crazy (1953) and then Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). The latter role, as the leader of a prison uprising, earned him a BAFTA nomination for Best Foreign Actor at the 8th British Academy Film Awards, but he lost to Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront. Brand was down the cast list for The Lone Gun (1954) but had the lead in Return from the Sea (1954).[4]

Brand had a supporting role in The Prodigal (1955) and The Return of Jack Slade and guest roles in Appointment with Adventure, Screen Directors Playhouse, Studio One in Hollywood, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, Chevron Hall of Stars, Schlitz Playhouse, General Electric Theater, The United States Steel Hour, and Stage 7.

He had lead roles in Bobby Ware Is Missing (1955) and Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956) and supported in Raw Edge (1956), and Mohawk (1956).

He had the distinction of being the first actor to portray outlaw Butch Cassidy, in the film The Three Outlaws opposite Alan Hale Jr. as the Sundance Kid. Though not the big-budget romp that the later Paul Newman–Robert Redford film was, both Brand's Cassidy and Hale's Kid were played as likable outlaws, a rare change from Brand's typecasting as a murderous psycho. He followed it with Gun Brothers (1956).

Brand became well known as a villain when he killed the character played by Elvis Presley in his debut film Love Me Tender (1956). 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).[5][6]

He often had better roles on such TV shows as Climax!, Playhouse 90, Target and notably an adaptation of All the King's Men for Kraft Theatre, directed by Sidney Lumet, playing Willie Stark, for which he earned a Sylvania Award in 1958.

Brand was also a guest star on The Texan, Pursuit, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, and The Dupont Show of the Month (doing Body and Soul with Ben Gazzara[7]).

Al Capone

Brand twice portrayed Al Capone on the television series The Untouchables, in the pilot and in the double episode "The Big Train", as well as often glimpses in 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), reprising his role as Al Capone in the latter.[8]

He guest-starred on Straightaway, Cain's Hundred, Death Valley Days, The Joey Bishop Show, Naked City, The DuPont Show of the Week, Ben Casey, Rawhide, The Lieutenant, Theatre of Stars, Arrest and Trial, Destry, Wagon Train, Suspense, Combat!, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and The Virginian.

He also portrayed a prison guard of Birdman of Alcatraz, was second billed in Hero's Island (1962) and had a key role in That Darn Cat! (1965).

Brand co-starred with George Takei in "The Encounter," a 1964 episode of the Twilight Zone, as a World War II veteran.[9] CBS considered the episode's theme of US-Japanese hatred "too disturbing" to include when the series was syndicated.[10] "The Encounter" was not seen after its initial airing until it was released on video in 1992 as part of the Treasures of the Twilight Zone collection.[9][10]

Laredo

Brand was given the star role in a TV series, Laredo (1965–67) which ran for 56 episodes.[11]

Brand played a heartwarming character who was brain damaged and misunderstood in an episode of the television series Daniel Boone. He guest-starred on Tarzan.

He was in The Desperados (1969) and played U.S. Navy Lieutenant Kaminsky, ignored as he tried to warn his commander of the opening skirmish in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970).

1970s

In the 1970s Brand could be seen in Westward the Wagon (1971), Lock, Stock and Barrel (1971), The Chicago Teddy Bears, Marriage: Year One, and The Smith Family. He played Hoss Cartwright's (Dan Blocker) Swedish uncle Gunnar Borgstrom on Bonanza in the episode "The Last Viking".

He was in Longstreet, Alias Smith and Jones, Adventures of Nick Carter, Marcus Welby, M.D., Two for the Money (1972), No Place to Run (1972), The Police Connection (1972), This Is a Hijack (1973), Cahill, U.S. Marshal (1973) with John Wayne, Scalawag (1973), The Magician, The Deadly Trackers (1973) with Richard Harris, Killdozer (1974), Death Stalk (1975), Police Story, Police Woman, Barbary Coast, Kojak, Mobile One, McCloud, Psychic Killer (1975), Island of Adventure, The Quest, and Captains and the Kings.

Brand was top billed in Eaten Alive (1976) directed by Tobe Hooper. He was in Fire! (1977), The Mouse and His Child (1977), Baretta, Captains Courageous, Man from Atlantis, Quincy M.E., The Seekers and Hi-Riders (1978). He had a key part in Five Days from Home (1978) directed by George Peppard, and in Angels' Brigade (1979).

1980s

In 1980, Brand appeared as Major Marvin Groper in The Ninth Configuration, written and directed by The Exorcist author William Peter Blatty.

His final roles included Fantasy Island, Without Warning (1980), Harper Valley P.T.A., and The Return (1982). He was top billed in his last film, Evils of the Night (1985).

Personal life

Brand and his wife, Rae, had three daughters.[12]

A Republican, he supported the campaign of Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.[13]

Brand was an insatiable reader who amassed a collection of 30,000 books over the years, one of the largest private libraries in Los Angeles. Most of his collection were destroyed in a 1978 fire at his Malibu home.[14]

His wartime service caused him post-traumatic stress disorder that lead to bouts of alcoholism. In 1975, he said in an interview that his addiction had cost him most of his fortune.[15]

Death

Brand died from emphysema at Sutter General Hospital in Sacramento, California, on April 16, 1992, at age 71.[16] After a private funeral service[17] he was cremated, and his remains were interred in a niche of the Morning Glory Room at East Lawn Memorial Park in Sacramento.[18]

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Footnotes

References

• Hannsberry, Karen Burroughs. Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2003.
• Horner, William R. Bad at the Bijou. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 1982.
• Wise, James E., Jr. and Paul W. Wilderson III. Stars in Khaki. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000.

External links

• Neville Brand at IMDb
• Neville Brand at the Internet Broadway Database
• Neville Brand at the TCM Movie Database
• Neville Brand at AllMovie
• Neville Brand at Find a Grave
• Neville Brand: Setting the Record Straight by Robert E. Witter

На других языках

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[de] Neville Brand

Neville Brand (* 13. August 1920 in Griswold, Iowa; † 16. April 1992 in Sacramento, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler sowie hochdekorierter Soldat.

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[es] Neville Brand

Neville Brand (Griswold, Iowa, 13 de agosto de 1920-Sacramento, California, 16 de abril de 1992) fue un actor televisivo y cinematográfico estadounidense.

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[ru] Брэнд, Нэвилл

Нэвилл Брэнд (англ. Neville Brand), полное имя Лоренс Нэвилл Брэнд (англ.  Lawrence Neville Brand) (13 августа 1920 года — 16 апреля 1992 года) — американский характерный актёр, более всего известный ролями в кино 1950-х годов и на телевидении в 1960-е годы.

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