Don Brodie

Donald Ellis Brodie (May 29, 1904 – January 8, 2001) was an American film and television actor. Early years The youngest of six children born to Frank Ellis Brodie and Charlotte Moonert, Donald Brodie was raised in Cincinnati's Avondale neighborhood and attended Hughes High School and the University of Cincinnati. Before becoming a professional actor, Brodie worked in Procter & Gamble's main offices. At age 16, his first-place finish-this-'filmerick' entry was published in The Cincinnati Post: Career As early as 1922, Brodie was acting on stage. In 1924, he co-starred in a production of Lord Dunsany's Fame and the Poet. In November 1927, a story in The Cincinnati Post mentions "Donald Brodie" among the players in the Emery Theatre production of Mrs. Leopold Markbreit's comedy, Diplomatic Perplexities. Five months later, a review in The Cincinnati Enquirer listed him in the cast of the Civic Theater's production of The Pigeon. Brodie worked with Cincinnati's Civic Repertory Theater for nine years.