Roscoe Lee Brown

Roscoe Lee Browne (Mei 2, 1922 – April 11, 2007) adalah seorang aktor dan sutradara berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Namanya dikenal melalui sulih suara yang indah dan berwibawa. Dia menolak bermain peran-peran kulit hitam secara stereotip, melainkan lebih banyak bekerja di bidang produksi bersama Shakespeare Festival Theater New York City, karya serial satir Leland Hayward di kanal NBC berjudul That Was the Week That Was, dan pembaca puisi yang tampil di seluruh Amerika Serikat, di samping bekerja di dunia film dan televisi.

Tahun 1976, Browne dinominasikan dalam Emmy Award untuk kategori Penampil Tunggal Terpuji dengan mendukung aktor dalam sebuah serial drama komedi di kanal ABC, berjudul Barney Miller. Tahun 1986, dia memenangi penghargaan Emmy Award untuk kategori Penampil Tamu Terpuji dalam serial komedi, melalui perannya di kanal NBC berjudul The Cosby Show. Tahun 1992, namanya masuk nominasi dalam Tony Award untuk kategori Best Featured Actor dalam sebuah naskah drama, atas perannya sebagai "Holloway" berjudul August Wilson's Two Trains Running. Tahun 1995, dia dinominasikan dalam Daytime Emmy Award untuk kategori Penampil Terpuji dalam program animasi berjudul Spider-Man, atas penampilannya sebagai "The Kingpin".

Browne dimasukkan dalam Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, tahun 1977 dan American Theater Hall of Fame, tahun 2008.

Penghargaan 

 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

Filmografi

Film 
 The Connection (1961) sebagai J. J. Burden
 Pie in the Sky (1964) sebagai Preacher
 Black Like Me (1964) sebagai Christopher
 The Comedians (1967) sebagai Petit Pierre
 Up Tight! (1968) sebagai Clarence (a.k.a. "Daisy")
 Topaz (1969) sebagai Philippe Dubois
 The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) sebagai L.B. Jones
 The Cowboys (1972) sebagai Jebediah Nightlinger
 Cisco Pike (1972) sebagai Music Store Owner
 The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) sebagai Gazenga
 Super Fly T.N.T. (1973) sebagai Dr. Lamine Sonko
 Uptown Saturday Night (1974) sebagai Congressman Lincoln
 Logan's Run (1976) sebagai Box
 Twilight's Lsebagait Gleaming (1977) sebagai James Forrest
 Nothing Personal (1980) sebagai Paxton
 Legal Eagles (1986) sebagai Judge Dawkins
 Jumpin' Jack Flsebagaih (1986) sebagai Archer Lincoln
 Moments Without Proper Names (1987)
 Moon 44 (1990) sebagai Chairman Hall, Galactic Mining Corp. (uncredited)
 The Mambo Kings (1992) sebagai Fernando Perez
 Eddie Presley (1992) sebagai Doc
 Naked in New York (1993) sebagai Mr. Ried
 Lsebagait Summer in the Hamptons (1995) sebagai Freddy
 The Pompatus of Love (1995) sebagai Leonard Folder
 Dear God (1996) sebagai Idris Abraham
 Forest Warrior (1996) sebagai Clovis Madison
 Judsebagai Kiss (1998) sebagai Chief Bleeker
 Morgan's Ferry (2001) sebagai Peabo
 Behind the Broken Words (2003)
 Unchained Memories (2003) sebagai Reader
 Sweet Deadly Dreams (2006) sebagai Devlin

Sulih suara 
 The Ra Expeditions (1972) sebagai Narrator
 Logan's Run (1976) sebagai Box
 The Story of Star Wars (1977)
 The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible (1986)
 Foofur (1986)
 Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987) sebagai Reekon / Merklynn (voice)
 The Real Ghostbusters (1988-1989) sebagai Edward 'Big Ed' Zeddemore
 Oliver & Company (1988) sebagai Francis (voice)
 Ring Raiders (1989) sebagai Narrator
 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990)
 The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
 Noel (1992) sebagai Brutus (voice)
 Batman: The Animated Series (1994) sebagai Dr. Wataki (voice)
 Freakazoid! (1995) sebagai Great Mystic Gnome (voice)
 Babe (1995) sebagai Narrator (voice)
 Spider-Man (1995–1998) sebagai Kingpin / Wilson Fisk (voice)
 Galapagos: Beyond Darwin (1996)
 Haiti: Harvest of Hope (1997)
 Babe: Pig in the City (1998) sebagai The Narrator (voice)
 The Wild Thornberrys (1998)
 The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (2000)
 Tresebagaiure Planet (2002) sebagai Mr. Arrow (voice)
 The Proud Family (2003) sebagai Clarence (voice)
 Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) sebagai Narrator (voice)
 Epic Movie (2007) sebagai Narrator (voice)
 Smiley Face (2007) sebagai Himself (voice)

Televisi 

 That Wsebagai The Week That Wsebagai (1964) sebagai Himself
 NET Playhouse (1967)
 The Invaders episode The Vise (1968) sebagai Arnold Andrew Warren
 Insight (1968) sebagai Stranger
 Mannix (1968) sebagai Dr. Andrew Josephus
 Espionage (1968)
 The Name of the Game (1969-1970) sebagai Dean Marshall / Wamumba
 The Outcsebagaits (1969) sebagai Gideon
 The Flip Wilson Show (1972-1973) sebagai Himself
 Bonanza (1972) sebagai Joshua
 All in the Family (1972-1973) sebagai Jean Duval / Hugh Victor Thompson III
 Sanford and Son (1972) sebagai Osgood Wilcox
 The Streets of San Francisco (1973) sebagai Yale Courtland Dancy
 Good Times (1974) sebagai Reverend Sam
 Barney Miller (1975) sebagai Charlie Evans Jeffers
 Starsky and Hutch (1977) sebagai Quatraine
 Maude (1977-1978) sebagai Mr. Butterfield
 King (1978) sebagai Philip Harrison
 Soap (1979–1981) sebagai Saunders
 Benson (1980) sebagai Howard Walker
 Hart to Hart (1981)
 The Cosby Show (1986-1987) sebagai Dr. Barnabus Foster

 Magnum, P.I. (1983) sebagai Carlton
 For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983) sebagai Gloster Current
 Head of the Clsebagais (1986) sebagai Mr. Thomsebagai
 227 (1987) sebagai Albert Henry
 Highway to Heaven (1988) sebagai Dr. Hudsbeth
 Falcon Crest (1988) sebagai Rosemont
 A Different World (1988-1992) sebagai Dr. Barnabus Foster
 Ring Raiders (1989) sebagai Max Miles
 Columbo: Rest in Peace Mrs. Columbo (1990) sebagai Dr. Steadman
 Father Dowling Mysteries (1990) sebagai Dennis Cray
 SeaQuest DSV (1993-1994) sebagai Dr. Raleigh Young
 The John Larroquette Show (1994) sebagai Mr. Davis
 New York Undercover (1996) sebagai Dr. Johnson
 Cosby (1996) sebagai George Lucsebagai, Hilton's Brother
 The Wild Thornberrys (1999) sebagai Komodo Dragon / Goulam
 ER (1999) sebagai Rev. Matthew Lynn
 Hope Island (1999) sebagai Judge Patrick Bradley
 The Shield (2002) sebagai Bryce Wyms
 Law & Order (1992-2003) sebagai Aaron Miller / Sir Idris Balewa
 Will and Grace (2004) sebagai Linus
 Side Order of Life (2007) sebagai Clarence

Teater 

 The Taming of the Shrew, New York Shakespeare Festival, East River Park Amphitheater, New York City, 1956.
 Soothsayer and Pindarus, Julius Caesar, New York Shakespeare Festival, East River Park Amphitheater, 1956.
 Aaron, Titus Andronicus, New York Shakespeare Festival, Theatre of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, New York City, 1957.
 Cothurnus, Aria da Capo, Theatre Marquee, New York City, 1958.
 Understudy for title role, Othello, New York Shakespeare Festival, Belvedere Lake Theatre, New York City, 1958.
 Royal Baron, The Cool World, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1960.
 Understudy for title role, Purlie Victorious, Cort Theatre, New York City, 1961.
 Archibald Wellington, The Blacks: A Clown Show, St. Mark's Playhouse, New York City, 1961–62.
 Corporal, General Seeger, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1962.
 Deacon Sitter Morris, Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1962–63.
 Fool, King Lear, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1962.
 Brecht on Brecht (revue), Theatre de Lys, now Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1962, then Arena Stage, Washington, DC, performed as a staged reading at Sheridan Square Playhouse, New York City, and at Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, all 1963.
 Autolycus, The Winter's Tale, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1963.
 Narrator, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1963.
 Street singer, The Threepenny Opera, Arena Stage, 1963.
 Babu, Benito Cereno, American Place Theatre, New York City, beginning 1963, later produced as part of a double-bill titled The Old Glory, Theatre of St. Clement's Church, New York City, 1964.
 Hell Is Other People (readings), Theatre at Carnegie Hall, New York City, 1964.
 Male lead, The Empty Room, Village South Theatre, New York City, 1964.
 St. Just, Danton's Death, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1965.
 Ulysses, Troilus and Cressida, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1965.
 Beyond the Fringe, Goodspeed Opera House, East Had-dam, CT, 1966.

 Babu, Benito Cereno, Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, OH, 1966.
 The gardener, Sodom and Gomorrah, Playhouse in the Park, 1966.
 Mendoza, Man and Superman, Playhouse in the Park, 1966.
 Sheridan Whiteside, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1966.
 An Evening of Negro Poetry and Folk Music, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1966; produced as A Hand Is on the Gate, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1966; revived at Afro-American Studio, New York City, 1976–77.
 Mosca, Volpone, New York Shakespeare Festival, Mobile Theatre, New York City, 1967.
 Makak, The Dream on Monkey Mountain, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1970, then St. Mark's Playhouse, 1971.
 A Rap on Race, New Theatre for Now, Los Angeles, 1971–72.
 As You Like It, Pilgrimage Theatre, Los Angeles, 1973.
 Ephraim Cabot, Desire Under the Elms, Academy Festival Theatre, Chicago, 1974.
 Behind the Broken Words (poetry reading), With Anthony Zerbe. Washington Theatre Club, Washington, DC, 1974, revived at American Place Theatre, 1981, and Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO, 2002.
 Babu, Benito Cereno, American Place Theatre, 1976.
 Albert Perez Jordan, Remembrance, New York Shakespeare Festival, Other Stage, Public Theatre, New York City, 1979.
 Pantomime, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 1981–82.
 Right Reverend J. D. Montgomery, My One and Only, St. James Theatre, New York City, 1983–84.
 M. Noirtier, The Count of Monte Cristo, Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1985.
 Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, 1989, then Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, 1989–90.
 Holloway, Two Trains Running, Eisenhower Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1991, then Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1992.
 House of Flowers, as Roscoe Lee Brown. City Center Encores!, City Center Theatre, New York City, 2003.
 Balthazar, Romeo and Juliet, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York cities, 1957.

Karya lain

Rekaman 

 Enjoyment of Poetry: Memorial Program for Claude McKay, Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, 1967.
 Poems, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, 1968.
 Caribbean, Random House Audio, 1989.
 Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, Listening Library, 1989.
 Martin Luther King Edition: New Testament Value Pack, World Bible Publishing Company, 1991.
 Audio Bible, World Bible Publishing, 1991.
 Bible for Today, New Testament, 1992.
 The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with Joe Morton. Simon & Schuster Audio, 1992.
 M. C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton Recorded Books, 1993.

 Kwanzaa Folktales, by Gordon Lewis, Warner Adult, 1994.
 The Word Workout: 10 Easy Exercises for a Stronger Vocabulary, Dove Books Audio, 1995.
 The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare: With A Lover's Complaint and Selected Songs, Dove Books Audio, 1996.
 The Poetry of Robert Frost, Dove Books Audio, 1996.
 Masterpieces of Modern Short Fiction, Audio Literature, 1998.
 The Haunting of Hill House, New Star Media, 1999.
 The Bible: Old Testament, King James Version, Audio Literature, 2001.
 The Poetry of Robert Frost, New Millennium Audio, 2001.
 The Poetry of Walt Whitman, New Millennium Audio, 2001.
 KJV on Cassette: New Testament, Nelson Bibles, 2003.

Penampilan ddi radio 
 Native villager, The Endless Road, CBS Radio Workshop, CBS, 1956.
 Performer of Shakespearean roles for CBC Radio.

Penulisan 
 An Evening of Negro Poetry and Folk Music (readings), Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1966, produced as A Hand Is on the Gate, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1966, revived at Afro-American Studio, New York City, 1976–77.
 Behind the Broken Words (poetry reading), Washington Theatre Club, Washington, DC, 1974, revived at American Place Theatre, New York City, 1981, and Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 2002.

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 Roscoe Lee Browne on Disney Wiki
 
 
 Roscoe Lee Browne on Internet Theatre Database
 
 Roscoe Lee Browne at Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 1, 2016
 Roscoe Lee Browne profile, at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection . Retrieved March 19, 2015.
 Roscoe Lee Browne's oral history video excerpts, visionaryproject.com. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
 Roscoe Lee Browne biography , TheHistoryMakers.com. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
 Profile, blackpast.org. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
 Roscoe Lee Browne reading Donald Barthelme's "At the End of the Mechanical Age"
 Roscoe Lee Browne: My Childhood (video interview). The National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP)

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