Career
Born John Stevenson, he took his screen name from Steve Brodie, a daredevil who claimed to have jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886 and survived. Brodie appeared in more than two hundred films, mostly from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s. He worked at various studios, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Radio-Keith-Orpheum and Republic Pictures, appearing mostly in westerns and B-movies.
He played supporting roles in the majority of his films, including the 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past and 1950"s Armored Carolina Robbery.
An exception was 1947"s Desperate, where he had a starring role. Later appearances included roles in two Elvis Presley films: 1961"s Blue Hawaii and 1964"s Roustabout.
Beginning in the mid-1950s, he appeared mostly on television, with gueststarring roles in such series as Stories of the Century (as the outlaw Harry Tracy), Crossroads, Sugarfoot, Colt.45, Stagecoach West, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, The Public Defender, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alaskans, Pony Express, The Brothers Brannagan, Going My Way, The Asphalt Jungle, Wanted: Dead or Alive, and The Dakotas. Brodie made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer and title character Ben Wallace in the 1959 episode, "The Case of the Garrulous Gambler." Brodie and Lash Louisiana Rue appeared nine and five times, respectively, as Sheriff Johnny Behan of Cochise County, Arizona, an historical persion, in the American Broadcasting Company western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O"Brian as Wyatt Earp.
Brodie appeared on stage in the 1950s as Maryk in a national company production of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, co-starring with Paul Douglas as Queeg and Wendell Corey as Greenwald.