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name: "Brown Holmes"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "12 December 1907"
died: "12 February 1974"
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T22:10:19.260300+00:00"
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# Brown Holmes

Writer. Born 12 December 1907 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. Died 12 February 1974.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 12 December 1907, Toledo, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 12 February 1974
- **Also known as:** Kenneth Dewitt Holmes, Kenneth Holmes
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Holmes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19538930, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391763/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/128782

## Biography

Brown Holmes (1907–1974) was an American screenwriter. Born Kenneth Dewitt Holmes in Toledo, Ohio, he was raised in California and graduated from Hollywood High School. His father was a newspaperman. He worked under contract for Warner Bros. from 1931 to 1936, later for Universal and 20th Century Fox.

His screenwriting credits include *The Maltese Falcon* (1931), *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932), co-written with Howard J. Green, *20,000 Years in Sing Sing* (1932) and its remake *Castle on the Hudson* (1940). He contributed to further adaptations of Dashiell Hammett's novel and to Perry Mason films such as *The Case of the Lucky Legs* (1935).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932), Fi1m 85, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-a-fugitive-from-a-chain-gang.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Studebaker Story* (1953), Screenplay
- *My True Story* (1951), Screenplay
- *Shed No Tears* (1948), Screenplay
- *Three Little Girls in Blue* (1946), Adaptation
- *Moon Over Miami* (1941), Screenplay
- *Castle on the Hudson* (1940), Screenplay
- *Hollywood Cavalcade* (1939), Story
- *Three Blind Mice* (1938), Screenplay
- *The Crime of Doctor Hallet* (1938), Screenplay
- *The Lady Fights Back* (1937), Screenplay
- *Top of the Town* (1937), Writer
- *Oh, Doctor* (1937), Screenplay
- *Flying Hostess* (1936), Writer
- *Satan Met a Lady* (1936), Screenplay
- *Snowed Under* (1936), Screenplay
- *The Case of the Lucky Legs* (1935), Writer
- *We're in the Money* (1935), Screenplay
- *The Case of the Curious Bride* (1935), Dialogue
- *The Florentine Dagger* (1935), Additional Dialogue
- *While the Patient Slept* (1935), Additional Dialogue, Additional Writing
- *I Sell Anything* (1934), Screenplay
- *Heat Lightning* (1934), Screenplay
- *Dark Hazard* (1934), Screenplay
- *The Avenger* (1933), Writer
- *The Stranger's Return* (1933), Screenplay
- *Ladies They Talk About* (1933), Screenplay
- *20,000 Years in Sing Sing* (1932), Screenplay
- *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932), Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-a-fugitive-from-a-chain-gang.md)
- *Street of Women* (1932), Adaptation
- *The Strange Love of Molly Louvain* (1932), Screenplay, Adaptation
- *Play Girl* (1932), Writer
- *The Maltese Falcon* (1931), Screenplay

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