Roscoe Lee Browne played a character named Phillipe Dubois in Hitchcock 's 1969 film Topaz .
More work with the Shakespeare Festival Theater followed , and he voiced an offscreen part as camera operator J.J . Burden in The Connection ( 1961 ) , his first movie role was in Hitchcock 's Topaz ( 1969 ) as Phillipe Dubois , a French-Haitian spy with a substantial role , his second movie role .
Roscoe Lee Browne