Albert Oldfield Brown


Albert Oldfield Brown, sometime known as A. O. Brown, was an actor and the president of The Lambs from 1921 to 1924 and again from 1930 to 1932. He was president of the Percy Williams Home for Retired Actors and Actresses.

Biography

He was born on December 30, 1872 in Manhattan, New York City. He married May Arents in 1891.
His first job was as a clerk at the Real Estate Trust Company. He then worked as a cashier at the American Tobacco Company. In 1902 he formed the A. O. Brown brokerage firm but he went bankrupt in the Panic of 1907.
In November 1908 he married Edna Wallace Hopper.
He died on March 5, 1945 at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, New York City.