Neville Brand

Neville Brand was born on Aug 13, 1920 in USA. Neville Brand's big-screen debut came with Battleground directed by William A. Wellman in 1949, strarring Soldier singing 'Santa Clause is Coming to Town' (uncredited). Neville Brand is known for Marriage: Year One directed by William A. Graham, Sally Field stars as Jane Duden and Robert Pratt as L.T. Mellons. The upcoming new movie Neville Brand plays is Evils of the Night which will be released on Oct 25, 1985.

Neville Brand joined the Illinois National Guard in 1939, bent on a career in the military. His National Guard unit was activated into federal service shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. It was while he was in the army that he made his acting debut, in Army training films, and this experience apparently changed the direction of his life. Once a civilian again, he used his GI Bill education assistance to study drama with the American Theater Wing and then appeared in several Broadway plays. His film debut was in La brigade des stupéfiants (1949). Among his earliest films was the Oscar-winning Stalag 17 (1953). His heavy features and gravelly voice made Brand a natural tough guy (and he wasn't just a "movie" tough guy--he was among the most highly decorated American soldiers in World War II, fighting in the European Theater against the Germans). "With this kisser, I knew early in the game I wasn't going to make the world forget Clark Gable," he once told a reporter. He played Al Capone in Le dompteur de femmes (1961), Le tueur de Chicago (1959), and TV's Les incorruptibles (1959). Among his other memorable roles are the sympathetic guard in Le prisonnier d'Alcatraz (1962) and the representative of rioting convicts in Les révoltés de la cellule 11 (1954). Perhaps his best-known role was that of the soft-hearted, loud-mouthed, none-too-bright but very effective Texas Ranger Reese Bennett of Backtrack! (1969), Three Guns for Texas (1968), and TV's Laredo (1965).