Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Johnny Mack Brown

'Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas' is a continuing series about "six-gun heroes that performed on movie location ranches in Chatsworth, California.  For more information about Chatsworth filming locations see http://www.cowboyup.com/ to find information about my books: Rendezvous at Boulder Pass: Hollywood's Fantasyland - 2010 and Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas - 2008.

Johnny Mack Brown (JMB) (1904-1974) was a B-Western star who was discovered because he had been a college football star.  He earned a football scholarship to the University of Alabama, and in 1926, his "Crimson Tide" team earned a trip to the Rose Bowl Game.  He was voted MVP of the game after scoring two of his team's three touchdowns in an upset win over the favored Washington Huskies.

His appearance on Wheaties cereal boxes in 1927, brought an offer for motion picture screen tests that resulted in winning a role opposite Mary Pickford in her first talkie, Coquette (1929), for which won her an Oscar.

In 1930 he was cast as the star in a Western entitled Billy the Kid directed by King Vidor.  After 1930 JMB went on to make many first class movies, and eventually became one of the screen's top B-movie cowboy stars, making 127 western films during his career.

When the B-Western genre faded in box office popularity, Johnny Mack Brown went into retirement in 1953, but returned later to appear in support roles in a few Western films and television shows.

Johnny Mack Brown's Santa Susana locations filmography:

Arizona Cyclone (1941) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Bar Z Bad Men (1937) - Johnny Mack Brown (Brandeis Ranch) Republic

Blazing Bullets (1951) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Monogram

Boss of Bullion City (1940) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Universal

Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (1941) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Canyon Ambush (1952) - Johnny Mack Brown - Monogram

Cheyenne Roundup (1943) - Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Chip of the Flying U (1939) - Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker and Fuzzy Knight (Iverson Ranch) Universal

Dead Man's Trail (1952) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Monogram

Desert Phantom (1936) - Johnny Mack Brown (Brandeis Ranch) William Steiner

Drifting Along (1946) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Fighting Bill Fargo (1941) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Fighting with Kit Carson (1933) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Mascot [serial]

Flashing Guns (1947) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton (Iverson Ranch) Monogram

The Gambling Terror (1937) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Republic

Ghost Guns (1944) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Gun Smoke (1945) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Gun Talk (1947) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Guns in the Dark (1937) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Republic

Law and Order (1940) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Law of the Panhandle (1950) - Johnny Mack Brown - Monogram

Law of the Range (1941) - Johnny Mack Brown (Brandeis Ranch)(Iverson Ranch) Universal

Law Men (1944) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Little Joe, the Wrangler (1942) - Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Lone Star Trail (1943) - Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Man from Sonora (1951) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Monogram

Man from the Black Hills (1952) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Monogram

The Marshal's Daughter (1953) - Hoot Gibson and Johnny Mack Brown - United Artists

The Masked Rider (1941) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Montana Desperado (1951) - Johnny Mack Brown - Monogram

Oklahoma Justice (1951) - Johnny Mack Brown and James Ellison - Monogram

Outlaw Gold (1950) - Johnny Mack Brown (Western Street, Iverson Ranch) Monogram

Outlaws of Stampede Pass (1943) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Over the Border (1950) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Monogram

Overland Trails (1948) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Pony Post (1940) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight (Iverson Ranch) Universal

Prairie Express (1947) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Raiders of San Joaquin (1943) - Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter (Corriganville) Universal

Raiders of the South (1947) - Johnny Mack Brown (Iverson Ranch) Monogram

Rawhide Rangers (1941) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight (Iverson Ranch) Universal

The Silver Bullet (1942) - Johnny Mack Brown - Universal

Six Gun Gospel (1943) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Stagecoach Buckaroo (1942) - Johnny Mack Brown and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

Stampede (1949) - Rod Cameron, Gale Storm and Johnny Mack Brown - Allied Artists

The Stranger from Pecos (1943) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943) - Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter - Universal

Texas City (1952) - Johnny Mack Brown - Monogram

The Texas Kid (1943) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Texas Lawmen (1951) - Johnny Mack Brown - Monogram

Trail of Vengeance (1937) - Johnny Mack Brown - Republic

Trailing Danger (1947) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Triggerman (1948) - Johnny Mack Brown - Monogram

Under Arizona Skies (1946) - Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton - Monogram

Under Cover Man (1936) - Johnny Mack Brown - Republic

West of Carson City (1940) - Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker and Fuzzy Knight - Universal

West of Wyoming (1950) - Johnny Mack Brown and Gail Davis - Monogram

Whistling Hills (1951) - Johnny Mack Brown - Monogram