Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the staunch Arnold Marsh in the dramatic film "Street Corner" (1948). Born unto a family of wealth and position, after graduating with several scholastic honors from Hughes High School, he then attended the University of Cincinnati majoring in business and originally worked as a financial advisor for Proctor & Gamble. Encouraged by friends and peers to change careers following praise of his effective reading at church services and community events, he joined the Cincinnati's Civic Repertory Theater where he performed for nine years. Discovered by film director Charles Lamont during a stage production of "The Pidgeon" he was so impressed by his good looks, slender height, and mellow voice that he arranged for him to relocate from Ohio to California to begin a career in the motion picture industry beginning with him personally being under his direction in "Out-Stepping" (1931). For the next 60 years, he would go on to appear in over 300 films, often typecast as a playboy, doctor, lawyer, hero, villain, educator, politician, butler, blue-collared worker, policeman, clerk, reporter, clergyman, kindly neighbor, mailman, tailor, eccentric, photographer, and patriarch, he was featured in such films as "Jewel Robbery" (1932), "The Washington Masquerade" (1932), "Frisco Jenny" (1932), "High Gear" (1933), "Picture Snatcher" (1933), "What Price Innocence?" (1933), "Midnight Mary" (1933), "Turn Back the Clock" (1933), "Bombshell" (1933), "The Prizefighter and the Lady" (1933), "Pirate Treasure" (1934), "I Like It That Way" (1934), "The Vanishing Shadow" (1934), "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934), "One More Swing" (1935), "It Happened in New York" (1935), "Reckless" (1935), "Black Sheep" (1935), "Page Miss Glory" (1935), "It's in the Air" (1935), "Strike Me Pink" (1936), "The Garden Murder Case" (1936), "The Little Red Schoolhouse" (1936), "Flash Gordon" (1936), "The Golden Arrow" (1936), "Theodora Goes Wild" (1936), "You Only Live Once" (1937), "Time Out for Romance" (1937), "Captain Courageous" (1937), "Kid Galahad" (1937), "Easy Living" (1937), "Love is a Headache" (1938), "When G-Men Step In" (1938), "The Lady in the Morgue" (1938), "Mr. Moto's Gamble" (1938), "When New York Sleeps" (1938), "The Phantom Creeps" (1939), "Woman Doctor" (1939), "Pardon Our Nerve" (1939), "Society Lawyer" (1939), "Broadway Serenade" (1939), "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (1939), "It Could Happen to You" (1939), "Mule Express" (1939), "Golden Boy" (1939), "Danger Ahead" (1940), "Music in My Heart" (1940), "Road to Singapore" (1940), "Pinocchio" (1940), "The Great Dictator" (1940), "Second Chorus" (1940), "Dressed to Kill" (1941), "Life Begins for Andy Hardy" (1941), "Two Latins from Manhattan" (1941), "Hellzapoppin'" (1941), "The Pride of the Yankees" (1942), "Night in New Orleans" (1942), "Tales of Manhattan" (1942), "The Powers Girl" (1942), "They Got Me Covered" (1943), "Mr. Lucky" (1943), "Hi Diddle Diddle" (1943), "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1943), "Summer Storm" (1944), "A Fig Leaf for Eve" (1944), "The Woman in the Window" (1944), "It's in the Bag!" (1945), "Bedside Manner" (1945), "Johnny Angel" (1945), "Incendiary Blonde" (1945), "Detour" (1945), "A Letter for Evie" (1946), "For You I Die" (1947), "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse" (1948), "The Luck of the Irish" (1948), "Million Dollar Weekend" (1948), "Champion" (1949), "The Woman of Pier 13" (1949), "My Dream Is Yours" (1949), "On The Town" (1949), "Let's Dance" (1950), "Experiment Alcatraz" (1950), "Harvey" (1950), "Watch the Birdie" (1950), "Little Egypt" (1951), "The Groom Wore Spurs" (1951), "On the Loose" (1951), "The Atomic City" (1952), "April in Paris" (1952), "Sword of Venus" (1953), "The I Don't Care Girl" (1953), "Donovan's Brain" (1953), "Hell's Outpost" (1954), "The Proud Ones" (1956), "Fear Strikes Out" (1957), "Bell, Book, and Candle" (1958), "The Ladies Man" (1961), "The Patsy" (1964), "The Chase" (1966), "The Busy Body" (1967), "Portrait in Terror" (1968), "How to Commit Marriage" (1969), Little Big Man" (1970), "Blackenstein" (1973), "Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975), "Goodbye, Norma Jean" (1976), "The Last Tycoon" (1976), "Eat My Dust!" (1976), "Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell" (1977), "Hot Lead and Cold Feet" (1978), "Heart Beat" (1980), "Murphy's Law" (1986), and "Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn" (1989). With the advent of television, he flourished as a household name appearing in numerous guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Dick Tracy," "Boston Blackie," "Christmas is Magic," "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show," "Racket Squad," "Climax!," "I Married Joan," "I Led 3 Lives," "Willy," "It's a Great Life," "I Love Lucy," "Crossroads," "Sky King," "Cheyenne," "Science Fiction Theatre," "Circus Boy," "Yancy Derringer," "Peter Gunn," "The Untouchables," "The Deputy," "Arrest and Trial," "Petticoat Junction," "Mister Ed," "Mona McCluskey," "Run for Your Life," "Get Smart," "The Red Skelton Hour," "Lassie," "My Three Sons," "Bracken's World," "The Name of the Game," "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law," "Adam-12," "The Blue Knight," "McCloud," "Hotel," and "Murder, She Wrote." During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, was active with the Hollywood Democratic Committee, was a regular parishioner of the Episcopal church, and was a prominent voice coach and theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse. After retiring in 1989, Brodie, who married at least once, to Lucille I. Becker on March 7, 1930, but evidently had no children, spent the final years of his live journaling, painting in oils, and was often seen partaking in recreational sports, and dining out daily, at the historic Los Angeles Country Club.