Harry Joe Brown, Jr; film & theater producer (son of Sally Eilers)
Hyfler/Rosner
November 27, 2005 Sunday
Paid Notice: Deaths
BROWN--Harry Joe, Jr., 1934 - 2005. Affectionately known by
his friends as ''Coco,'' real estate developer,
screenwriter, and former film and theater producer, died
this past Wednesday, November 23. He was 71 years old and
lived partly in West Palm Beach, FL, and partly in New York
City, where he died at home with his family around him after
a courageous battle with cancer. Mr. Brown, who came from a
prominent Hollywood family--his father was the
producer/director Harry Joe Brown and his mother was the
screen star Sally Eilers--first made his mark in the
theatrical world in the late '50s and the early '60s with
original, award-winning New York productions of works by
Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Jean Anouilh, and Tennessee
Williams.
In subsequent years Mr. Brown was in charge of a creative
development program for Twentieth Century Fox and had an
original screenplay, Duffy, produced by Columbia Pictures in
1970. Duffy was also published as a novel. Educated at
Phillips Exeter Academy, Stanford, and Yale, where he
graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Brown went
on to earn an master's degree at Oxford University under a
Marshall Scholarship. With a keen instinct for real estate
value, Mr. Brown made his first foray into development with
a large and lucrative residential sub-division project
called Mulholland Estates above Beverly Hills. Over the next
three decades he assembled a highly eclectic portfolio of
largely commercial real estate in many parts of the U.S. as
well as in South America, Europe, and Canada. But Mr. Brown
would undoubtedly be best remembered for his conversion of a
failed housing development in the hamlet of Sagaponac, NY,
into an historic showcase of architecture called The Houses
of Sagaponac. With curatorial assistance from architect
Richared Meier, Mr. Brown assembled thirty four of the most
talented architects practicing today, both seasoned and new,
to design Hampton weekend homes which were aesthetically
fresh, sensibly sized, and relatively affordable, going
against the current trend of affluent house design that
emphasized size and strayed away from innovative design. Mr.
Brown is survived by his partner Catherine Nelson Brown, his
former wife Karen Dempsey, his two daughters Morgan Brown
and Esme Brown, of Beverly Hills and Manhattan respectively,
and a grandson, Remington Rivers. Mr. Brown was predeceased
by his first wife Marcia Stillman. The family will be
receiving friends at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel, 1076
Madison Avenue, on Monday, November 28, 2005, from 7 to 9
pm, with a memorial service to be held at a future date. The
family has requested that in lieu of flowers, donations may
be made in the name of Harry J. Brown, Jr. to the charity of
your choice.
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