Rowland Brown November 6 1900 May 6 1963 born Chauncey Rowland Brown in Canton Ohio was an American screenwriter and film director whose career as a director ended in the early 1930s after he started many more films than he finished He walked out of States Attorney 1932 starring John Barrymore He was abruptly replaced as director of The Scarlet Pimpernel As a writer he was credited with twenty or so films including two Academy Award nominations one in the 11th Academy Awards for Best Original Story Angels with Dirty Faces and another in the 4th Academy Awards for Doorway to Hell