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name: "Arvin Brown"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "24 May 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:42:34.766054+00:00"
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# Arvin Brown

Director. Born 24 May 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 24 May 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Arvin Bragin Brown 

## Biography

Arvin Brown (born 24 May 1940) is an American theatre and television director. Born in Los Angeles, he served as artistic director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1967 to 1997.

He made his Broadway directorial debut in 1970 with a revival of Noël Coward's *Hay Fever* and went on to direct numerous Broadway productions, including *The National Health* (1974), *Ah, Wilderness!* (1975), *A View from the Bridge* (1983), *American Buffalo* (1983) and *All My Sons* (1987). Brown directed the feature film *Diary of the Dead* (1976) and episodes of many television series, including *Party of Five* (1994), *Picket Fences*, *Dawson's Creek*, *The Practice*, *Ally McBeal*, *The Closer*, *Leverage*, *Lie to Me* and multiple episodes of *NCIS*.

He was married to actress Joyce Ebert from 1969 until her death in 1997.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, themoviedb.org, courant.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Party of Five* (1994), Fi1m 73, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/party-of-five.md)

## Also known for

- *NCIS* (2003), Director
- *Lie to Me* (2009), Director
- *Dawson's Creek* (1998), Director
- *Rizzoli & Isles* (2010), Director
- *Roswell* (1999), Director
- *NCIS: New Orleans* (2014), Director
- *Leverage* (2008), Director
- *Ally McBeal* (1997), Director

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