
Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director. After serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the United States Army Air Service during World War I, Brown was given his first co-directing credit (with Tourneur) for The Great Redeemer (1920). Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall. Brown moved to Universal in 1924, and then to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he remained until the mid-1950s. At MGM he was one of the main directors of their major female stars, he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven. Brown was nominated five times for six films (see below) for an Academy Award as a director, but he never received an Oscar. However, he won Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina, starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival. Brown's films gained a total of 38 Academy Award nominations and earned nine Oscars. Brown himself received five Academy Award nominations for six films and in 1949, he won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust. In 1957, Brown was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Brown retired a wealthy man due to his real estate investments, but refused to watch new movies, as he feared they might cause him to restart his career. The Clarence Brown Theater, on the campus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director without a win, with six.

When in Rome

Intruder in the Dust

They Met in Bombay

Kiki

National Velvet

肉体と悪魔

The Son-Daughter

Navy Blues

蜃気楼の女

Sadie McKee

Come Live with Me

Edison, the Man

Angels in the Outfield

Chained

Letty Lynton

Song of Love

Wife vs. Secretary

The Yearling

The White Cliffs of Dover

征服

Smouldering Fires

Ah, Wilderness!

アンナ・カレニナ

A Woman of Affairs

Emma

To Please a Lady

The Eagle

Romance

The Human Comedy

Looking Forward

A Free Soul

アンナ・クリスティ

Idiot's Delight

The Goose Woman

The Trail of '98

Of Human Hearts

The Rains Came

Plymouth Adventure

Night Flight

Inspiration

The Light in the Dark

The Signal Tower

It's a Big Country

The Gorgeous Hussy

Wonder of Women

Don't Marry for Money

The Great Redeemer

The Foolish Matrons

Butterfly

The Acquittal