James Brown (actor)
James Edward Brown (March 22, 1920 – April 11, 1992) was an American film and television actor.[4] Brown starred, co-starred and appeared on films including The Good Fellows, Objective, Burma!, Gun Street, The Big Fix, When the Clock Strikes, Air Force, Irma la Douce, The Fabulous Texan, Young and Willing, The Gallant Legion, The Younger Brothers, Corvette K-225, Sands of Iwo Jima, Yes Sir, That's My Baby, Our Hearts Were Young Gay (and its sequel Our Hearts Were Growing Up), Chain Lightning, Missing Women, Inside the Mafia, The Groom Wore Spurs, Space Probe Taurus, and Going My Way.[4][5] After the series ended in 1959, he guest-starred in television programs including Gunsmoke, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Lassie (3 episodes), The Virginian, Laramie, Route 66, Barbary Coast, Daniel Boone, Bronco, Honey West and Murder, She Wrote.[4] From 1979 to 1986, he played the recurring role of Detective Harry McSween in 39 episodes of the soap opera television series Dallas.[5] Brown died on April 11, 1992 of lung cancer at his home in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 72.