Joe Brown's first bit part was in Sob Sister (1931), after which he went on stage performing in productions of Between Two Worlds (1934) a drama. His next play was Remember the Day (1935), following which he tried his hand at comedy with The Sap Runs High (1936), White Horse Inn (1936-37) and Schoolhouse on the Lot (1938). After that he returned to films with High School (1940) when he played the ...
show all Joe Brown's first bit part was in Sob Sister (1931), after which he went on stage performing in productions of Between Two Worlds (1934) a drama. His next play was Remember the Day (1935), following which he tried his hand at comedy with The Sap Runs High (1936), White Horse Inn (1936-37) and Schoolhouse on the Lot (1938). After that he returned to films with High School (1940) when he played the part of Slats Roberts, a juvenile delinquent, co-starring with Jane Withers and Youth Will Be Served (1940), as Benny. He made a military recruitment film Naval Academy (1941) as midshipman Bill Foster, also that year Sing Another Chorus (1941) as Ralph in this typical musical of the era. Brown next took bit parts in All American Co-Ed (1941), The Kink of the Campus (1941), The Postman Didn't Ring (1942), College Belles (1942), The Great Glover (1942) and Glove Birds (1942). Other films included a musical, Juke Box Jenny (1942), another military recruitment and war bond film Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) as Cadet Benny Havens and the comedy B-movie, His Girl's Worst Friend (1943). He had a four year hiatus before doing Jack Armstrong (1947) and another string of B-movies, such as Father of the Bride (1950) as a Moving man, The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950) as Bilson, Messenger of Peace (1950) as Ted Herner and The Wild Blue Yonder (1951) starring Wendell Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan, Ruth Donnelly, Harry Carey Jr. and Brown as Sgt. Pop Davies. He also worked on the TV series "Three Character Mike" and "The Phil Silvers Show" (1957), before one last try at the movies in The Fugitive Kind (1959) as Pee Wee Binnings, playing a townie to Marlon Brando's character who has run foul of the law once too often.
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