Interesting, I didn’t know this. Thanks.
And it’s true that Neville Brand almost always played villains, thanks to his looks. But there was one other little exception I recall. There was a rather obscure, semi-forgotten film entitled “Return from the Sea” (1954), in which Brand actually starred, playing a lonely Navy officer in San Diego who winds up in an unlikely romance with Jan Sterling. Haven’t seen it in decades, but I remember it being a rather nice film, in a sort of minor, low-key way.