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Joseph Evans Brown was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his amiable screen persona, comic timing, and enormous elastic-mouth smile. He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s, with films like A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Earthworm Tractors (1936), and Alibi Ike (1935). In his later career Brown starred in Some Like It Hot (1959), as Osgood Fielding III, in which he utters the film's famous punchline "Well, nobody's perfect."
Birth Name
Joseph Evans Brown
Born
Tuesday, 28 July 1891
Died
Friday, 06 July 1973
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Fall of Japan: In Color | Self | 2015 |
| Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten | (archive footage) | 2014 |
| 30 Rock | Osgood Fielding III in Some Like it Hot | 2006 |
| The Making of 'Some Like It Hot' | Osgood Fielding III | 2006 |
| Inside the Dream Factory | Self | 1995 |
| Classic Movie Bloopers | Self | 1990 |
| Entertaining the Troops | Self | 1988 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| Bloopermania | Self | 1987 |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1984 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Fall of Japan: In Color | Self | 2015 |
| Hollywoods Spaßfabrik - Als die Bilder Lachen lernten | (archive footage) | 2014 |
| 30 Rock | Osgood Fielding III in Some Like it Hot | 2006 |
| The Making of 'Some Like It Hot' | Osgood Fielding III | 2006 |
| Inside the Dream Factory | Self | 1995 |
| Classic Movie Bloopers | Self | 1990 |
| Entertaining the Troops | Self | 1988 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| Bloopermania | Self | 1987 |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1984 |
| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self | 1983 |
| Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) | 1982 |
| It's Showtime | Self | 1976 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| That's Entertainment! | Clip from 'Show Boat' | 1974 |
| M*A*S*H | Self | 1972 |
| The Comedy of Terrors | Cemetery Keeper | 1964 |
| It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World | Union Official | 1963 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Self | 1963 |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Diamond 'Dimey' Vine | 1963 |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Himself | 1963 |
| Crusade in the Pacific | Self - Performer | 1962 |
| The Mike Douglas Show | Self - Co-Host / Himself - Comedian / Self - Comedian | 1961 |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | Self | 1961 |
| Route 66 | Sam Butler | 1960 |
| Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
| Some Like It Hot | Osgood Fielding III | 1959 |
| The Ann Sothern Show | Mitchell Carson | 1958 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar | Himself | 1957 |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Fort Kearney Station Master / Stationmaster | 1956 |
| Probe and Night Beat | Self | 1956 |
| General Electric Summer Originals | Joe Brown | 1956 |
| The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | Self / Self - Comedian | 1956 |
| The People's Choice | Charles Hollister | 1955 |
| Screen Directors Playhouse | Arthur Vail | 1955 |
| Shower of Stars | Self | 1954 |
| The Tonight Show | Self - Guest / Himself - Guest | 1954 |
| Stage Show | Self | 1954 |
| General Electric Theater | Earl Hall | 1953 |
| The Buick Circus Hour | Self - Host / The Clown | 1952 |
| This Is Your Life | Self - Honoree | 1952 |
| I've Got a Secret | Self - Guest | 1952 |
| The Name's the Same | Self / Self - Contestant | 1951 |
| Show Boat | Cap'n Andy Hawks | 1951 |
| General Electric Guest House | Self | 1951 |
| The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story | (archive footage) | 1951 |
| Showtime, U.S.A. | Self | 1950 |
| Cassino to Korea | Self - USO Show | 1950 |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self - Comedian | 1950 |
| TV Club | Self | 1950 |
| The Arthur Murray Party | Self - Comic | 1950 |
| What's My Line? | Himself - Mystery Guest | 1950 |
| The Ken Murray Show | Self | 1950 |
| The Ed Wynn Show | Self | 1949 |
| The Milton Berle Show | Self - Comedian | 1948 |
| The Tender Years | Rev. Will Norris / Will Norris | 1948 |
| Hollywood Canteen | Joe E. Brown / Self | 1944 |
| Pin Up Girl | Eddie Hall | 1944 |
| Casanova in Burlesque | Joseph M. Kelly Jr. | 1944 |
| Show-Business at War | Self | 1943 |
| Chatterbox | Rex Vane | 1943 |
| The Daring Young Man | Grandma Peckinpaw / Jonathan Peckinpaw | 1942 |
| Joan of Ozark | Cliff Little | 1942 |
| Shut My Big Mouth | Wellington Holmes | 1942 |
| Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 | Self - Premiere Host | 1941 |
| Rodeo Dough | Joe E. Brown | 1940 |
| So You Won't Talk | 'Brute' Hanson / Whiskers / Brute Hanson | 1940 |
| Beware Spooks! | Roy L. Gifford | 1939 |
| $1000 a Touchdown | Marlowe Mansfield Booth | 1939 |
| Hollywood Hobbies | Self | 1939 |
| Flirting with Fate | Dan Dixon | 1938 |
| The Gladiator | Hugo Kipp | 1938 |
| Wide Open Faces | Wilbur Meeks | 1938 |
| Fit for a King | Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones | 1937 |
| Riding on Air | Elmer Lane | 1937 |
| Hollywood Party | Himself / Self | 1937 |
| When's Your Birthday? | Dustin Willoughby | 1937 |
| Breakdowns of 1936 | Himself / Self | 1936 |
| Polo Joe | Joe Bolton | 1936 |
| Earthworm Tractors | Alexander Botts | 1936 |
| Sons o' Guns | Jimmy Canfield | 1936 |
| A Dream Comes True | Self | 1935 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Flute - the Bellows-Mender / Flute | 1935 |
| Bright Lights | Joe Wilson | 1935 |
| Alibi Ike | Frank X. Farrell / Frank "Ike" Farrell | 1935 |
| 6 Day Bike Rider | Wilfred Simpson / Wilfred | 1934 |
| The Circus Clown | Happy Howard / Chuckles Howard / Chuckles | 1934 |
| A Very Honorable Guy | 'Feet' Samuels | 1934 |
| Hollywood Newsreel | Himself / Self | 1934 |
| Son of a Sailor | 'Handsome' Callahan / Handsome | 1933 |
| Elmer, the Great | Elmer Kane | 1933 |
| You Said a Mouthful | Joe Holt | 1932 |
| The Tenderfoot | Calvin Jones | 1932 |
| Fireman, Save My Child! | Joe Grant / 'Smokey' Joe Grant | 1932 |
| Local Boy Makes Good | John Augustus Miller | 1931 |
| How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots' | Self - Golfer | 1931 |
| Broadminded | Ossie Simpson | 1931 |
| How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'the Putter' | Self | 1931 |
| The Stolen Jools | Robbery Suspect | 1931 |
| Sit Tight | Jojo / Jojo Mullins | 1931 |
| Going Wild | Rollo Smith | 1930 |
| Maybe It's Love | Speed Hanson (Yates per on-screen credits) / Yates | 1930 |
| The Lottery Bride | Hoke | 1930 |
| Top Speed | Elmer Peters | 1930 |
| Hold Everything | Gink Schiner | 1930 |
| Song of the West | Hasty | 1930 |
| Sally | Grand Duke Connie / Grand Duke Constantine | 1930 |
| Painted Faces | Beppo / Hermann | 1929 |
| On with the Show! | Joe Beaton / Ike Beaton | 1929 |
| My Lady's Past | Sam Young | 1929 |
| Take Me Home | Bunny | 1928 |
| The Circus Kid | King Kruger | 1928 |
| Hit of the Show | Twisty | 1928 |
| Crooks Can't Win | Jimmy Wells | 1928 |
