[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Sydney ‘Syd’ Summers Brown was born in London, England in 1899. One of eight children of Joseph and Alice Brown. He immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1946 where he worked as a radio producer and writer. He then broke into films in the mid-1950s appearing in 40 films and TV series from 1954 to 1981.
Syd Brown died in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada on March 1, 1979. He was a month shy of turning 80.
His only appearance is a Euro-western was as an old man in 1976’s “Welcome to Blood City” starring Jack Palance.
BROWN, Syd (aka Sidney Brown, Sid Brown) (Sydney
Summers Brown) [4/2/1899, London, England, U.K. – 3/1/1979, Sudbury,
Ontario, Canada (heart attack)] – writer, radio, film, TV actor, married to
Dorothy Knight [1900-19??] (19??-19??) father of Joyce Eileen Brown [1922- ] actor Tony Brown (Anthony Brown)
[1946- ].
Welcome to Blood City – 1976 (2nd old man)
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