
Arlington Rand Brooks Jr. (September 21, 1918 – September 1, 2003) was an American film and television actor. Brooks was born in Wright City, Missouri. He was the son of Arlington Rand Brooks, a farmer. His mother and he moved to Los Angeles when he was four, though he continued to spend summers in Wright City. Brooks continued to make visits to his hometown of Wright City into the 1950s, up to and following the death of his father in 1950. His mother and his grandfather were actors. After leaving school, Brooks got a screen test at MGM and was given a bit part in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). His big fame came with his part as Charles Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), a role which he later admitted he despised; he wanted to play more macho parts. He made $100 per week under contract at MGM, but when he was on loan to Selznick International Pictures for Gone with the Wind, he made $500 per week. After Gone With the Wind, he had relatively small parts in other movies including Babes in Arms, then a regular role as Lucky in the Hopalong Cassidy series of Westerns in the mid-1940s; Brooks succeeded Russell Hayden in the role. Among the films, which starred William Boyd as Hopalong, were Hoppy's Holiday, The Dead Don't Dream, and Borrowed Trouble. He received positive notice for his work in Fool's Gold, with Variety reporting that he did "an excellent job." In edited, half-hour versions of some of the films, he appeared in 12 of the 52 episodes of the Hopalong Cassidy television series. In 1948, he co-starred with Adele Jergens and Marilyn Monroe in the low-budget, black-and-white Columbia Pictures film, Ladies of the Chorus. Brooks became the first actor to share an on-screen kiss with Monroe, who in a few years was one of the world's biggest movie stars. Filmed in just 10 days, the film was released soon after its completion. Variety called his performance in the 1952 film The Steel Fist "capable." Television brought new opportunities, again often in Westerns. He played Cpl. Randy Boone in the 1950s television series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Brooks had guest roles in 1950s Western series, including Mackenzie's Raiders, The Lone Ranger, Maverick, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza. He appeared twice on the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, as well as on CBS's Perry Mason courtroom drama series. In 1962, he directed and produced a movie about brave dogs, Bearheart, but the film was entangled in legal troubles due to his business manager's involvement in crimes such as forgery and graft. The film was finally released in 1978, under the title Legend of the Northwest. After he left show business, Brooks ran a private ambulance company in Glendale, California. He commented that he "died in more pictures than almost anyone" and that though he was never very big in show business, he was willing to return to it. Brooks sold the ambulance company in 1994, and retired to his ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, where he bred champion Andalusian horses. He attended a Gone with the Wind reunion for Clark Gable's birthday, along with Ann Rutherford and Fred Crane, in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1992. On September 1, 2003, Brooks died in Santa Ynez, California.

The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin

刑事コロンボ

風と共に去りぬ

The Munsters

The Wonderful World of Disney

Perry Mason

コンバット!

ボナンザ

Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West

The Last Hurrah

頭上の敵機

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Green Hornet

The Old Maid

City Detective

Adam-12

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

Maverick

Niagara Falls

ローン・レンジャー

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Gunsmoke

Comanche Station

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Wagon Train

Tombstone Territory

The Harvey Girls

Ladies of the Chorus

Air Force

Northwest Passage

My Three Sons

Peter Gunn

Dramatic School

Babes in Arms

The Roy Rogers Show

バージニアン

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

And One Was Beautiful

Dancing Co-Ed

Lassie

In Like Flint

Joan of Arc

Love Finds Andy Hardy

Bat Masterson

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

Laddie

Heart of the Rockies

Black Midnight

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Borrowed Trouble

Thunder Afloat

The Son of Monte Cristo

Bunco Squad

Riding High

Highway Patrol

High Explosive

ペチコート作戦

The Real McCoys

The Great Morgan

Fingers at the Window

Tightrope

The Adventures of Kit Carson

Hawaiian Eye

M Squad

Lady Scarface

The Devil's Playground

Life with Henry

Born to the Saddle

The Steel Fist

Cowboy Serenade

Kilroy Was Here

The Millionaire

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Silver Needle in the Sky

Sinister Journey

False Paradise

Lady in the Dark

Balalaika

The Gene Autry Show

Dangerous Venture

Unexpected Guest

The Dead Don't Dream

Silent Conflict

The Marauders

Strange Gamble

The Wyoming Bandit

Boston Blackie

Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock

Crash of Moons

Fool's Gold

Hoppy's Holiday

Yukon Manhunt

The Sombrero Kid

The Sex Symbol

The Vanishing Westerner

The Gunman

Florian

Sundown in Santa Fe

Behind Southern Lines

Stump Run

Montana Incident

Man from the Black Hills

The Maverick

Waco

The Girl from Avenue A

Jennie

Double Date

The Man Called X

Studio 57