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name: "Clarence Brooks"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/clarence-brooks"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 December 1896"
died: "12 March 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T21:54:37.633911+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Clarence Brooks

Actor. Born 23 December 1896 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Died 12 March 1969.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 December 1896, San Antonio, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 12 March 1969
- **Also known as:** Clarence Ahart Brooks
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Brooks_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95983068, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111919/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/593759

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Arrowsmith*](https://film.one/film/arrowsmith.md) (70)

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## Biography

Clarence Ahart Brooks, also credited as Clarence A. Brooks, was an American actor. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he appeared in numerous films from the silent era through the 1950s, often in leading roles in independent race films.

In 1916, Brooks co-founded the Lincoln Motion Picture Company with Noble Johnson and others, one of the earliest Black-owned film production companies. He starred in several of its productions, including *By Right of Birth* (1921). His later credits include *Georgia Rose* (1930), *Arrowsmith* (1931), in which he played Dr. Oliver Marchand, and *Murder in Harlem* (1935). He was married to Cherry Hale.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Arrowsmith* (1931), Fi1m 70, as Dr. Oliver Marchand — [page](https://film.one/film/arrowsmith.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Wild Women* (1951), as Sungu
- *Rock Island Trail* (1950), as Butler
- *The Negro Soldier* (1944), as Chaplain
- *Up Jumped the Devil* (1941), Actor
- *Broken Strings* (1940), as First Doctor
- *Bad Boy* (1939), as Terry's Friend
- *Harlem Rides the Range* (1939), as Bradley
- *The Bronze Buckaroo* (1939), as Buck Thorne
- *Two-Gun Man from Harlem* (1938), as John Barker
- *Spirit of Youth* (1938), as Speedy
- *Dark Manhattan* (1937), as Larry Lee
- *Murder In Harlem* (1935), as Henry Glory
- *Arrowsmith* (1931), as Dr. Oliver Marchand — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/arrowsmith.md)
- *Georgia Rose* (1930), as Ralph
- *Absent* (1928), as Soldier
- *By Right of Birth* (1921), Actor
- *A Man's Duty* (1919), Actor
- *The Law of Nature* (1917), Actor
- *The Realization of a Negro's Ambition* (1916), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Clarence Brooks](https://film.one/media/person/1225377/gallery-5c221b9680f9.jpg) Clarence Brooks — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Clarence_A._Brooks%2C_c1921.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Clarence Brooks](https://film.one/media/person/1225377/gallery-6e70c10a8675.jpg) Clarence Brooks — Image via TMDB
- ![Clarence Brooks](https://film.one/media/person/1225377/gallery-ab1241648ece.jpg) Clarence Brooks — Image via TMDB

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