Thomas Brown
was an American

United States

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 child model, and later a film and television actor.

As a child model from the age of two years old, Brown posed as Buster Brown

Buster Brown

Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault who was known for his association with the Brown Shoe Company. This mischievous young boy was loosely based on a boy near Outcault's home in Flushing, New York...

, the Arrow Collar Boy and the Buick

Buick

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 boy. As an actor he is probably best remembered for playing
the title role in The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (serial)

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack is a Universal movie serial based on the comic strip The Adventures of Smilin' Jack.-Cast:* Tom Brown as 'Smilin' Jack' Martin* Rose Hobart as Gertrude Muller, alias Fräulein von Teufel...

and later appearing on Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

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, General Hospital

General Hospital

General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

and Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives

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. He also had a recurring role as Lt. Rovacs in Mr. Lucky.

Brown was educated at the New York Professional Children's School. He was carried on stage in his mother's arms when he was only six months old. He enlisted in the US Army in World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 where he served as a paratrooper

Paratrooper

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 and also served during the Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

 with the 40th Infantry Division (United States) where he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel

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