- Anthony Zerbe, Rooster Cogburn, 1974. Brand was up for the bandit called Breed in the sequel to John Wayne’s Oscar-winning role in True Grit – the one-eyed US Marshal Cogburn. The second movie was scripted by Martin Julien – a worthless pseudonym as all Hollywood knew the writer was the then actress-wife of producer Hal B Walls – Martha Hyer. “Neville Brand was a good actor,” reported Herman J Mankiewicz’s son, Don. ”But what he’s famous for is that he was blacklisted at Universal. He was a drunk and he pissed on a tour bus filled with tourists. He didn’t work at Universal after that.”.
Birth year: 1920Death year: 1992Other name: Casting Calls: 0