Martin Brown (writer)
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Martin Brown (June 22, 1885 – February 13, 1936) was a Canadian-born American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Born in Montreal, Canada on June 22, 1885,[1] Brown had a career as an actor in both the United States and England from 1907 to 1915.[2] He made his New York stage debut in 1908 at the Herald Square Theatre as Dudley Cheatham in The Girl Behind the Counter.[1] He appeared in the Broadway casts of several more musicals;[1] including Three Twins (1908, as Ned Maryland),[3] The Motor Girl (1909, as Dick Willoughby),[4] The Belle of Brittany (1909, as Baptiste Boubillon),[5] He Came from Milwaukee (1910, as Bruce Chetwynde),[6] Up and Down Broadway (1910, as Erato),[7] The Kiss Waltz (1911, as Paul von Gervais),[8] The Merry Countess (1912, as Prince Orloffsky),[9] A Night with the Pierrots (1912),[10] The Whirl of Society (1912, as Franklyn Copeland),[11] Vera Violetta (1912, as Andrew Mason),[1] and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1913.[2]
Brown starred in Hullo Tango at the London Hippodrome in 1914.[2] In 1915 he was in the cast of The Belle of Bond Street at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End.[12] That same year he returned to New York as Bum Lung in the revue Hello, Broadway! at the Astor Theatre.[13] After this he abandoned the stage to work as a writer of plays and film scripts.[2] Many of his plays were staged on Broadway.[2]
He died at Bellevue Hospital in New York City on February 13, 1936.[2]