Brand, Neville (1921)?Actor. Brand started in army training films and was pro?moted as the fourth most decorated soldier of World War II. He worked himself into the position of one of Hollywood's heaviest villains. His hulking figure, fleshy, thick-set face and rasping voice made him ideally suited for mobster roles, a career topped by his performance as the loud-mouthed, cigar-chewing Capone in The Untouchables. In Westerns he was the black-clad villain who terrorized young Anthony Perkins in The Tin Star. His screen presence exudes a sense of physical power and ruthlessness, com?bined with near-psychotic unpredictability, providing memorable moments in many otherwise routine films.
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