Sound

Bernard B. Brown

Born 1898-07-24 · La Farge, Wisconsin, USA

Bernard B. Brown (July 24, 1898 – February 20, 1981) was an American sound engineer and composer, who wrote the scores for many early animated cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures. He won an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording and was nominated for seven more in the same category. He was also nominated three times in the category Best Visual Effects. He worked on more than 520 films between 1930 and 1958. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Acting credits

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards poster
6.3

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel and more, with host Bob Hope.

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

Buddy's Trolley Troubles poster
4.9

Buddy runs his own trolley. Most of it seems to be a musical number. However, there is a criminal living in the ditches as he breaks loose and hijacks Buddy's trolley.

Buddy's Trolley Troubles

1934

Buddy the Gob poster
4.1

Buddy is a US sailor on shore leave in China, where he rescues a girl who is about to be sacrificed to a dragon.

Buddy the Gob

1934

Buddy and Towser poster
4.8

On a winter night, Buddy charges Towser with the task of guarding his prize chickens, and then goes to bed. A fox enters the henhouse and is driven out by the hens and some ducks by having eggs thrown at him.

Buddy and Towser

1934

Buddy's Garage poster
4.0

While having lunch at the garage, Cookie is kidnapped by a man and Buddy gets in a car chase to rescue her.

Buddy's Garage

1934

Buddy of the Apes poster
3.8

Buddy encounters black cannibals. He and his animal friends beat up near-naked natives (with rings in their noses)..

Buddy of the Apes

1934

Buddy's Show Boat poster
4.3

Buddy's boat floats merrily down the river as there are various musical and dance shows performed.

Buddy's Show Boat

1933

Sittin' on a Backyard Fence poster
5.9

Male cats fight each other over a female cat around the backyard fence.

Sittin' on a Backyard Fence

1933

Buddy's Beer Garden poster
5.7

Buddy's musical antics as a waiter at a German beer garden are truly delightful! Cookie appears as a cigarette girl and scarf-dancer, and a drag-decked lounge-singing Buddy brings down the house.

Buddy's Beer Garden

1933

Buddy's Day Out poster
4.9

This cartoon has some amusing sight gags like a car going back through a fence and crashing into various animals before landing in Cookie's yard or a train that seems on its way into crashing into a car with Elmer and Happy inside when Buddy and Cookie use a ladder to derail the locomotive in another direction.

Buddy's Day Out

1933

Behind the camera