[3] At age 16, his first-place finish-this-'filmerick' entry was published in The Cincinnati Post: Little Mary Miles Minter was ill; She thought that she needed a pill.

[8] In November 1927, a story in The Cincinnati Post mentions "Donald Brodie" among the players in the Emery Theatre production of Mrs. Leopold Markbreit's comedy, Diplomatic Perplexities.

In 1938, Brodie, with considerable media fanfare, landed by far the most substantial role of his screen career: prominently featured in the fifth installment of Universal's Crime Club series, The Last Express.

He did get a chance to direct again in 1957, helming the hour-long pilot episode for a proposed series entitled Tricks for Living, scripted by Mary Wellman Harris and starring Dell O'Dell.

[23] His entry in the reference work Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture gave his age as 101 and his birth date as May 29, 1899.