Jabarkan Penghargaan dari Roscoe Lee Brown

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award – Best Actor Award, for his performance as "Makak" in Derek Walcott's The Dream on Monkey Mountain,  1970

Bronze Wrangler, the Western Heritage Award - a shared award with the production, for Theatrical Motion Picture, for "The Cowboys," a Warner Brothers film, 1972

Primetime Emmy Award nomination - Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series, for ABC's Barney Miller, 1976

Inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, 1977

Primetime Emmy Award - Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series, for NBC's The Cosby Show, 1986

NAACP Image Award - Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series, for The Cosby Show, 1986

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award – Best Actor Award, for his performance as "Bynum Walker" in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, 1989

Soap Opera Digest Award nomination - Outstanding Villain: Prime Time, for Falcon Crest, 1989

Tony Award nomination - Best Featured Actor in a Play, for his performance as "Holloway" in August Wilson's Two Trains Running, directed by Lloyd Richards, 1992

Helen Hayes Award - Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production, for Two Trains Running, 1992

Daytime Emmy Award nomination - Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program, for his performance as "The Kingpin" in Spider-Man, 1995

Inducted posthumously into the American Theater Hall of Fame, 2008