Harry Joe Brown

Harry Joe Brown was a movie producer and supervisor who was also a theatre and film director. Brown died from a heart attack.

As producer, he was notably involved in the fruitful partnership with director Budd Boetticher, actor Randolph Scott and screenwriter Burt Kennedy which generated a series of fine westerns between 1957 and 1960 through a company he created with Randolph Scott which eventually assumed the name of The Ranown Pictures Corp.