Victor Upton-Brown was an Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 coach who coached University

Melbourne University Football Club

Melbourne University Football Club, often known simply as University is an Australian rules football club.The club achieved prominence by being a member of the game's most elite competition in the early 20th century, the Victorian Football League between 1908 and 1914.Although there are no records...

 for a season while they were in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (VFL).

Upton-Brown coached University when Gerald Brosnan

Gerald Brosnan

Gerald Brosnan was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL. He played as a key position forward and had an accurate left foot kick....

 stepped aside for the 1913 season

1913 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1913.-Premiership season:In 1913, the VFL competition consisted of ten teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their...

 but couldn't steer the club to a single win from his 18 games in charge. When not coaching, Upton-Brown spent some time as a boundary and field umpire in the VFL.

He was involved in the early Australian movie industry, writing and directing a movie based on the play 'How McDougall Topped the Score' which was released in 1924. He is also credited as having acted in the 1920 film: The Kelly Gang

The Kelly Gang

The Kelly Gang is an Australian feature length film about the Australian bush ranger, Ned Kelly. The film was released in 1920, and is the second film to be based on the life of Ned Kelly, the first being The Story of the Kelly Gang, released in 1906....

, which starred Godfrey Cass

Godfrey Cass

Godfrey Cass was an Australian actor in the silent era. Between 1906 and 1935 he acted in nineteen film roles. He played Ned Kelly three times, and also had roles in a number of other bushranger movies including A Tale of the Australian Bush and Moondyne .-Biography:The son of the Governor of...

.

He also taught at Wesley College

Wesley College, Melbourne

Wesley College, Melbourne is an independent, co-educational, Christian day school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1866, the college is a school of the Uniting Church in Australia. Wesley is the largest school in Australia by enrolment, with 3,511 students and 564 full-time staff...

 in Melbourne and is credited as the lyricist of several school songs, including "Grey Towers". He was also the editor of the 1910 version of that school's songbook.

He opened the South Yarra Cinema in the suburb of South Yarra, Melbourne, on 22 November 1915, where he lectured on movies.

He was an occasional contributor to The Argus

The Argus (Australia)

The Argus was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne established in 1846 and closed in 1957. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left leaning approach from 1949...

newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, during 1914 and 1915.