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Birthday: Sep 21, 1918
Place of Birth: Wright City, Missouri, USA

Rand Brooks

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Gone with the Wind Charles Hamilton 1939
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine 1942
In Like Flint Missle Control Officer (uncredited) 1967
Joan of Arc Jean d'Arc, Joan's older brother 1948
Ladies of the Chorus Randy Carroll 1948
Fool's Gold Lucky Jenkins 1946
Borrowed Trouble Lucky Jenkins 1948
Dangerous Venture Lucky Jenkins 1947
The Devil's Playground Lucky Jenkins 1946
Sinister Journey Lucky Jenkins 1948
False Paradise Lucky Jenkins 1948
Unexpected Guest Lucky Jenkins 1947
The Dead Don't Dream Lucky Jenkins 1948
Silent Conflict Lucky Jenkins 1948
Hoppy's Holiday Lucky Jenkins 1947
The Marauders Lucky Jenkins 1947
Strange Gamble Lucky Jenkins 1948
Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West Cpl. Boone 1991
Lady Scarface James 'Jimmy' Powell 1941
Lady in the Dark Ben 1944
Riding High Henry Early 1950
Resisting Enemy Interrogation Pilot 1944
Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock Quint Rucker 1962
And One Was Beautiful Joe Havens 1940
Dramatic School Pasquel Jr. 1938
Sundown in Santa Fe Tom Wyatt 1948
Silver Needle in the Sky Ranger Andrews 1954
Florian Victor 1940
Life with Henry Daniel Gordon (uncredited) 1941
The Sex Symbol Edward Kelly (voice) 1974
Behind Southern Lines Captain Loomis 1952
Laddie Peter Dover 1940
Love Finds Andy Hardy Young Man on Bandstand (uncredited) 1938
The Old Maid Jim 1939
Thunder Afloat Listener (uncredited) 1939
Babes in Arms Jeff Steele 1939
Dancing Co-Ed Steve (uncredited) 1939
The Gunman Jud Calvert 1952
Balalaika Crying Soldier (uncredited) 1939
Born to the Saddle John Grant 1953
The Steel Fist Captain Giorg Nicholoff 1952
Stump Run 1959
The Last Hurrah Votes Tallyman (uncredited) 1958
Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things Mechanic (uncredited) 1940
Air Force Co-Pilot (uncredited) 1943
Heart of the Rockies Jim Corley 1951
Montana Incident Dave Connors 1952
Crash of Moons Andrews 1954
Northwest Passage Eben Towne 1940
The Son of Monte Cristo Hans Mirbach 1940
The Wyoming Bandit Jimmy Howard 1949
Yukon Manhunt Len Kaufman 1951
Man from the Black Hills Fake Jimmy Fallon 1952
The Maverick Trooper Barnham 1952
Cowboy Serenade Jim Agnew 1942
The Sombrero Kid Philip Martin 1942
Waco Al 1952
Black Midnight Daniel Jordan 1949
The Vanishing Westerner Sanderson's First Victim 1950
The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin 1958
Comanche Station Station Man 1960
Niagara Falls Honeymooner 1941
The Great Morgan Film Character (uncredited) 1945
Kilroy Was Here Rodney Meadows 1947
Ditch and Live T / Sgt. Ryan 1944
Bunco Squad Robert (uncredited) 1950
Fingers at the Window Young Reporter (uncredited) 1942
High Explosive Jimmy Baker 1943
The Girl from Avenue A Steve 1940
Series Cast Year
Maverick Second at Duel (uncredited) 1957
My Three Sons 1960
The Munsters The Man 1964
Petticoat Junction Ernest Belden 1963
Gunsmoke Rand 1955
Perry Mason Trainer 1957
Combat! G.I. Lieutenant 1962
Hawaiian Eye 1959
Lassie 1954
The Lone Ranger Dick Larrabee 1949
The Millionaire Allan Carter 1955
Peter Gunn 1958
The Real McCoys 1957
M Squad Purser 1957
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin 1954
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok 1951
Bat Masterson Willard Wynant 1958
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon 1955
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Banker Wilson 1956
The Roy Rogers Show 1951
City Detective 1953
The Adventures of Kit Carson 1951
The Man Called X 1956
Jefferson Drum Ray Comstock 1958
The Green Hornet Conway 1966
The Gene Autry Show Jeff Elwood 1950
The Gene Autry Show Young Deputy 1950
The Lone Ranger Deputy Jim Tyler 1949
Wagon Train Thomas Pope 1957
Maverick Jack Blair 1957
The Cisco Kid Clint Riley 1950
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Sheriff Del Mathey 1955
Lux Video Theatre Uncle George 1950
Bonanza Cowboy 1959
Gunsmoke Man 1955
Adam-12 Mr. Edwards 1968
Adam-12 Bus Driver 1968
Adam-12 Mr. Marshall 1968
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin Cpl. Boone 1954
Tightrope Young Man 1959
The Lone Ranger Marshal Roy Bell 1949
The Lone Ranger Private Phillips 1949
The Virginian Henry 1962
Columbo Jerry - Wine Lab Assistant (uncredited) 1971
Studio 57 1954
The Lone Ranger Private Jack Carey 1949
The Wonderful World of Disney Baseball Coach (uncredited) 1954
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