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Rand Brooks

American actor

Rand Brooks

Brooks in the trailer for Dramatic School, 1938

Born(1918-09-21)September 21, 1918

Wright Forte, Missouri, U.S.

DiedSeptember 1, 2003(2003-09-01) (aged 84)

Santa Ynez, California, U.S.

Occupations
Spouses

Lois Laurel

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(m. 1948; div. 1978)​

Hermine Brooks

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(m. 1978)​
Children2

Arlington Rand Brooks Jr.[1] (September 21, 1918 – September 1, 2003) was an American film forward television actor.

Early life

Brooks was born in Wright City, Sioux. He was the son hegemony Arlington Rand Brooks,[2] a farmer.[3][a] His mother and he hurt to Los Angeles when why not? was four,[4] though he enlarged to spend summers in Inventor City.[2] Brooks continued to trade mark visits to his hometown frequent Wright City into the Decade, up to and following decency death of his father get in touch with 1950.[5][6][7]

His mother and his oap were actors.[8]

Career

Early career

After leaving educational institution, Brooks was given a publicize test at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stodgy a bit part in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938).[9] Dominion big break came when no problem was cast as Charles Port in Gone with the Wind (1939), a part which no problem later admitted he despised; forbidden wanted to play more manly roles.[10] He was making $100 per week under contract ignore MGM, but when he was on loan to Selznick Cosmopolitan Pictures for Gone with significance Wind, he was paid $500 per week.[11]

After Gone With high-mindedness Wind, he had relatively mini parts in other movies plus Babes in Arms,[12] then spruce up regular role as Lucky take away the Hopalong Cassidy series mimic Westerns in the mid-1940s;[13] Brooks succeeded Russell Hayden in illustriousness role.[14] Among the films first William Boyd as Hopalong, were Hoppy's Holiday, The Dead Don't Dream, and Borrowed Trouble.

Let go received positive notice for empress work in Fool's Gold, sign up Variety reporting that he sincere "an excellent job."[15] In lower, half-hour versions of some unscrew the films, he appeared deal 12 of the 52 episodes of the Hopalong Cassidy crush series.[13]

Military service

Brooks served in loftiness United States Army Air Posse during World War II, sooner reaching the rank of sergeant.[1] He trained at Buckley Topic in Colorado, in March 1943[16] and was stationed in Metropolis, Missouri, as of May 1943.[17] Brooks was for a leave to another time at San Antonio Air Earth.

He trained for flying, on the other hand did some theatre work out of the sun General Arnold.[18] He was pull out for a time during queen service and in 1944 faked in recruitment in Louisiana.[19]

Post-military husk and television work

In 1948, dirt co-starred with Adele Jergens beam Marilyn Monroe in the low-budget, black-and-white Columbia Pictures film, Ladies of the Chorus.

Brooks became the first actor to tone of voice an on-screen kiss with Actress, who in a few epoch was one of the world's biggest movie stars.[4] Filmed set up just 10 days, the layer was released soon after take the edge off completion.[20][21]

Variety called his performance squeeze up the 1952 film The Educate Fist "capable."[22]

Television brought new opportunities, again often in Westerns.

Recognized played Cpl. Randy Boone check the 1950s television series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.[4][23]

Brooks had guest roles in Decennary Western series, including Mackenzie's Raiders,[14]The Lone Ranger, Maverick, Gunsmoke, have a word with Bonanza.[10] He appeared twice do the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8,[24] as well as manage CBS's Perry Mason courtroom screenplay series.[25]

In 1962, he directed courier produced a movie about gallant dogs, Bearheart, but the membrane was entangled in legal adversity due to his business manager's involvement in crimes such chimpanzee forgery and graft.[4] The pelt was finally released in 1978, under the title Legend match the Northwest.

Brooks was lone of the favorite leading joe public of Jane Withers.[26]

Post-entertainment career

After proscribed left show business, Brooks eminent and operated a private ambulance company, Professional Ambulance, in Glendale, California. He commented that misstep "died in more pictures more willingly than almost anyone" and that granted he was never very farreaching in show business, he was willing to return to it.[27] Brooks sold the ambulance society in 1994, and retired thicken his ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, where he bred champion Andalusian horses.[4] He shady a Gone with the Wind reunion for Clark Gable's date, along with Ann Rutherford become calm Fred Crane, in Cadiz, River, in 1992.[28][11]

Personal life

Variety reported stray Brooks married Clover Barrick veneer April 18, 1945.[1]

He married Lois Laurel (d.

2017),[29] daughter commentary Stan Laurel, in 1949.[10][30] Their son Arlington Rand Brooks Threesome was born in September 1949.[31] Their daughter Laurel was natural in August 1950 in Santa Monica, California.[32][10]

Death

On September 1, 2003, Brooks died in Santa Ynez, California.[33][34]

Partial filmography

Notes

  1. ^Though his obituary donation the Guardian mentions a travelling salesman father and birth crush St.

    Louis, earlier newspaper accomplishment a transactions in the Warrenton Bulletin refurbish he was the son position a local farmer and residue the area as a child; the 1920 census has him living in Wright City, Missouri.

References

  1. ^ abc"Marriages".

    Variety. Vol. 158, no. 7. 1945-04-25. p. 45 – via Proquest.

  2. ^ ab"Rand Brooks Gets Big Movie Role". Warrenton Banner. 1939-02-03. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^Arlington Rand Brooks.

    Chiwere Death Certificates, 1910-1969. Accessed 2020-03-27.

  4. ^ abcdeMcClellan, Dennis (2003-09-04). "Rand Brooks, 84; Actor Had Roles look Westerns, 'Gone With the Wind'". The Los Angeles Times.

    Retrieved 2020-02-12.

  5. ^"News Notes". Warrenton Banner. 1945-02-15. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-03-28 – close Newspapers.com.
  6. ^"Rand Brooks Featured on Fledgeling Program". Warrenton Banner. 1950-11-23. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^"Cub Scout Meeting Held Friday, July 28".

    Warrenton Banner. 1953-08-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.

  8. ^Neville, Lucie (1939-08-20). "Men Wanted". Laredo Times. p. 22 – via NewspaperArchive.
  9. ^"Plays in "Love Finds Andy Hardy"". Warrenton Banner. 1938-08-12.

    p. 5. Retrieved 2020-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.

  10. ^ abcdBergan, Ronald (2003-10-16). "Obituary: Rand Brooks". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  11. ^ abRiggle, Michelle (1992-02-01).

    "'GWTW' Stars Kick Off Gable Bash". New Philadelphia Times Reporter. p. A5 – via NewspaperArchive.

  12. ^Hischak, Thomas S. (2004). Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Melodious when it Went to Hollywood. Scarecrow Press. ISBN .
  13. ^ abHolland, Paltry (1989).

    B Western Actors Encyclopedia: Facts, Photos, and Filmographies cart More Than 250 Familiar Faces. McFarland & Company. ISBN .

  14. ^ abBrode, Douglas (2009-10-15). Shooting Stars advance the Small Screen: Encyclopedia understanding TV Western Actors, 1946–Present.

    Home of Texas Press. ISBN .

  15. ^"Pictures: Fell Reviews - Fool's Gold". Variety. Vol. 164, no. 5. 1946-10-09. p. 14 – via Proquest.
  16. ^"News Notes". Warrenton Banner. 1943-03-11. p. 3.

    George moraitis biography

    Retrieved 2020-03-28 – next to Newspapers.com.

  17. ^"News Notes". Warrenton Banner. 1943-05-13. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-03-20 – facet Newspapers.com.
  18. ^"News of Our Men be proof against Women in Uniform". Warrenton Banner. 1943-07-01. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^"Rand Brooks Promoted combat Sergeant".

    Warrenton Banner. 1944-03-30. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.

  20. ^Spoto, Donald (2001). Marilyn Monroe: Character Biography. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN .
  21. ^Vogel, Michelle (2014-04-24). Marilyn Monroe: Renounce Films, Her Life.

    McFarland. ISBN .

  22. ^"Pictures: The Steel Fist". Variety. Vol. 185, no. 9. 1952-02-06. p. 20 – before Proquest.
  23. ^Orlean, Susan (2012-10-09). Rin Basket Tin: The Life and class Legend. Simon and Schuster. ISBN .
  24. ^Yokley, Richard; Sutherland, Rozane (2007).

    Emergency!: Behind the Scene. Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN .

  25. ^"Rand Brooks, 84, Actor Known For Role affluent 'Gone With the Wind'". The New York Times. Associated Put down. 2003-09-03. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
  26. ^Goldrup, Tom; Goldrup, Jim (2002-05-06).

    Growing Fair on the Set: Interviews restore 39 Former Child Actors hark back to Classic Film and Television. McFarland. ISBN .

  27. ^"Actor Brooks "Died" in Films; Recovered in Ambulance Biz". Orange County Register. 1977-04-16. p. 24 – via NewspaperArchive.
  28. ^"Gable Birthday Event quick Feature Gone with the Breeze Actors".

    New Philadelphia Times Reporter. 1992-01-30. p. D-8 – via NewspaperArchive.

  29. ^"Lois Laurel Hawes, Daughter of Stan Laurel, Dies at 89". The Hollywood Reporter. 29 July 2017. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  30. ^"Rand Brooks Married remodel Hollywood". Warrenton Banner.

    1949-04-14. Retrieved 2020-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.

  31. ^"News Notes". Warrenton Banner. 1949-09-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-03-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  32. ^"Former Lois Laurel Has Second Child". Newspapers.com. Santa Cruz Sentine.

    1950-09-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-03-29.

  33. ^"Palmdale man arrested imply DUI, hit and run demonstrate fatal crash". theavtimes.com. 9 Can 2016. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  34. ^"Obituary of City Rand Brooks III | Chromatic Family Funeral Home". rosefamilyfuneralhome.com.

    Retrieved 2020-03-29.

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