JOHNNY MACK BROWN

Johnny Mack Brown was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. He was star football player in college, and when he graduated, he was signed to a contract by MGM. He initially naturally appeared in sports movies, and graduated to the leads in some A-movies, but in 1930, he starred in "Billy the Kid", and he soon was typecast in westerns, and by the late 1930s, Johnny was solely making B-westerns, mostly for Monogram Pictures, and he was one of the most successful cowboy stars of the 1940s. Some of his movies include: Apache Uprising, Short Grass, and Hollywood Halfbacks. He passed away in 1974 at the age of 70.