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Began collecting silent movies at age 11.

Authority on the silent film era.

Worked with David Gill.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 172-176. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

Recipient of the 2019 Robert Osborne Award, given by Turner Classic Movies at its annual TCM Classic Film Festival "to an individual whose work has helped keep the cultural heritage of classic films alive and thriving for generations to come".

For his services to French culture - namely his Herculean restoration of Abel Gance's silent film epic Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927) - Brownlow was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1989.