---
name: "Harry Brown"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-brown"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "30 April 1917"
died: "2 November 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T15:41:41.394865+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."
---

# Harry Brown

Writer. Born 30 April 1917 in Portland, Maine, USA. Died 2 November 1986.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 30 April 1917, Portland, Maine, USA
- **Died:** 2 November 1986
- **Active:** 1960–2001
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 55 (1), 2000s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Brown_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1769448, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113689/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4357

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Ocean's Eleven*](https://film.one/film/oceans-eleven-1960.md) (55)

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## Biography

Harry Brown was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Born in Portland, Maine, he attended Harvard University before working at Time magazine and The New Yorker. He served in the US Army during the Second World War, contributing to the magazine Yank.

Brown wrote numerous screenplays, including *A Walk in the Sun* (1945), *Sands of Iwo Jima* (1949), *A Place in the Sun* (1951) – for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay – and *Ocean's Eleven* (1960), co-written with Charles Lederer. Several of his novels were adapted for film, among them *A Walk in the Sun* and *The Stars in Their Courses*, the latter the basis for *El Dorado* (1966).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Ocean's Eleven* (2001), Fi1m 80, Original Film Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-eleven.md)
- *Ocean's Eleven* (1960), Fi1m 55, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-eleven-1960.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *Ocean's Eleven* (2001), Original Film Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-eleven.md)
- *El Dorado* (1966), Novel
- *Three Weeks of Love* (1965), Writer
- *The DuPont Show of the Week* (1961), series, Writer
- *Ocean's Eleven* (1960), Screenplay — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-eleven-1960.md)
- *The Fiend Who Walked the West* (1958), Screenplay
- *The Deep Six* (1958), Screenplay
- *Between Heaven and Hell* (1956), Screenplay
- *D-Day the Sixth of June* (1956), Screenplay
- *The Virgin Queen* (1955), Screenplay, Story
- *Many Rivers to Cross* (1955), Screenplay
- *All the Brothers Were Valiant* (1953), Screenplay
- *Eight Iron Men* (1952), Theatre Play, Screenplay
- *The Sniper* (1952), Screenplay
- *Bugles in the Afternoon* (1952), Screenplay
- *A Place in the Sun* (1951), Screenplay
- *Only the Valiant* (1951), Screenplay
- *Apache Drums* (1951), Original Story
- *Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye* (1950), Screenplay
- *Sands of Iwo Jima* (1950), Screenplay, Story
- *The Man on the Eiffel Tower* (1949), Screenplay
- *Wake of the Red Witch* (1948), Screenplay
- *Arch of Triumph* (1948), Screenplay
- *The Other Love* (1947), Screenplay
- *A Walk in the Sun* (1945), Novel

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 1952: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *A Place in the Sun*
- 1950: Best Story (nominated), for *Sands of Iwo Jima*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Shelley Memorial Award 1939: Shelley Memorial Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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