# Robert Latham Brown

Robert Latham Brown (born June 20, 1947) is a film producer, line producer, production manager, author, and University of Southern California film and television adjunct professor. In his more than 30-year film career Brown has worked with George Lucas, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, and others. His expertise in budgeting and line producing inspired Mel Brooks, his multi-feature boss at the time, to nickname Brown "Mr. On-Budget".

## Career

Robert Latham Brown has worked in production capacity on more than 40 feature films, including the very small (the Ray Liotta/Ron Perlman film Local Color, along with drama The Anarchist Cookbook) and also the very large (Blues Brothers, Starship Troopers, and the Kevin Bacon film Hollow Man).
Robert Latham Brown spent most of his early career at Universal Studios. After his work with John Carpenter on The Thing, the invitation of Lucasfilm producer/vice president Howard Kazanjian sent Brown to begin work on Return of the Jedi. Afterward Brown's career took a freelance aspect that allowed him to work on an eclectic list of films with some of the top individuals in the business, including Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, and Samuel L. Jackson.

### Author and teacher

Robert Latham Brown authored the long acclaimed book Planning the Low-Budget Film, and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts since 1996. Additionally, Brown is a former contributing writer to Indie Slate Magazine, writing a series of reviews on film production software.

### Writing awards

Brown's book, Planning the Low-Budget Film was a finalist for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Awards, and that same year was a first-place winner in the Hollywood Book Festival. In 2002, his screenplay Keats was named a semi-finalist in the 9th Annual Writer's Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition. In 2020, his screenplay Xena & Jonny was named a finalist in the ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition.

## Partial filmography

| Year | Film | Credit | Notes |
| 1979 | The Concorde ... Airport '79 | Unit Production Manager | Credited as "Bob Brown." |
| 1980 | The Nude Bomb | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1981 | All Night Long | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1981 | Bustin' Loose | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1981 | Ghost Story | Production Manager | |
| 1982 | The Thing | Production Manager | Shot in the U.S. and Canada. |
| 1983 | Return of the Jedi | Production Executive | U.S. filming. |
| 1983 | Iceman | Production Manager | Shot in the U.S. and Canada. |
| 1983 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Production Manager | U.S. filming. |
| 1983 | Best Defense | Unit Production Manager | Shot in the U.S. and Israel. |
| 1984 | The Goonies | Unit Production Manager | Second unit, uncredited. |
| 1985 | Warning Sign | Associate Producer Unit Production Manager | |
| 1986 | Blue City | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1986 | One Crazy Summer | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1986 | Howard the Duck | Co-Producer Production Manager | |
| 1987 | Spaceballs | Production Manager | |
| 1988 | Clean and Sober | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1988 | Elvira, Mistress of the Dark | Production Manager | Additional scenes. |
| 1988 | Child's Play | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1989 | The War of the Roses | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1990 | Child's Play 2 | Executive Producer | |
| 1991 | Child's Play 3 | Producer | |
| 1993 | Babylon 5: The Gathering | Producer | Pilot telefilm |
| 1993 | Robin Hood: Men in Tights | Executive in Charge of Production Production Manager | |
| 1995 | Dracula: Dead and Loving It | Associate Producer Production Manager | |
| 1995 | Showgirls | Unit Production Manager | |
| 1997 | Starship Troopers | Production Manager | |
| 1998 | The Parent Trap | Unit Production Manager | |
| 2000 | Hollow Man | Production Manager | |
| 2001 | Ali | Production Manager | Uncredited. Prep period only. |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Unit Production Manager | Additional scenes and post production. Uncredited. |
| 2002 | Vampires: Los Muertos | Line Producer Unit Production Manager | U.S. filming. |
| 2002 | The Anarchist Cookbook | Producer | |
| 2003 | Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle | Unit Production Manager | Additional scenes. Uncredited. |
| 2003 | S.W.A.T. | Unit Production Manager | |
| 2005 | A Lot Like Love | Unit Production Manager | |
| 2005 | Lords of Dogtown | Unit Production Manager | Additional scenes. Uncredited. |
| 2006 | Local Color | Co-producer Unit Production Manager | |
| 2006 | The Holiday | Unit Production Manager | Additional scenes. Uncredited. |
| 2009 | Hard Breakers | Producer Production Manager | |