Biography

Joe E. Brown came into

this world on a small rundown ranch near

Waco, Texas, on the 13th. day of August.  The year was 1936.

His studio bio says he had learned the cowboy arts of riding, roping, and shooting almost before he could walk.

An honest to goodness cowboy, Joe, began

appearing in rodeos by the time he

was twelve, and had performed on horseback publicly more times than even he cares to remember.



  By his teens, Brown, had mastered

bronc - busting, bulldogging, calf roping and trick riding.

The Way it all Began!

Joe had his first peek into the world of show bussiness at

around the age of ten when his flamily moved from

the ranch in Waco, to Florida, near Tampa,

where he entered and won a local radio contest on

radio station

W.H.B.O.

and became their

"Junior Disc Jockey"

Some years later Brown, worked in the Tampa Bay Area

as a country and western dee jay on radio station

W.E.B.K.

with radio personalities Ron Happ, "Cousin" Larry Lane,

"Red" Brown and "Uncle Fudd" and sportcaster

Guy Bigli who would later become the first

sports director for television station

WTVT-TV in Tampa, Florida.

In the early days of his Career Brown, made numerous

guest appearances on all the local tv stations.

These guest shots included:

"Captain Mac's Adventure Trails"

on

WSUN-TV

channel 38.

Tampa, Bay's first television station.

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"The Barney Bungleupper Show"

"The Tumbleweed Thomas Show"

"The Today and Tonight Show"

and

"The Major Jack Show"

all on WFLA-TV channel 8, NBC.

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"The Marry Ellen Show" = "The Ernie Lee Show"

and

"The 3-D Danny Show"

on

WTVT- TV

channel 13, CBS.

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