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Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is a retired American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X.
For Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s most beloved episode, "Far Beyond the Stars," Avery Brooks pulled double duty in more ways than one.The actor spoke with ET leading up to its premiere 25 years ...
A Man Called Hawk is an American action drama series, starring Avery Brooks, that ran on ABC from January 28 to May 13, 1989. The series is a spin-off of the crime drama series Spenser: For Hire, and features the character Hawk, who first appeared in the 1976 novel Promised Land, the fourth in the series of Spenser novels by mystery writer Robert B. Parker.
Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise portrayed by Avery Brooks. He was the main character of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9), which was originally broadcast between 1993 and 1999. The character has also appeared in various books, comics, and video games within the Star Trek franchise.
Ultimately the producers thought he was too young for the role and instead offered him the part of Dr. Julian Amoros, who was subsequently renamed to Julian Bashir; [6] [7] the role of Sisko went to Avery Brooks. Deep Space Nine was originally intended to have Ro Laren, a character from The Next Generation as a main character.
Avery Brooks both directed the episode and played Sisko/Russell. Brooks was chosen to direct by the production staff because they wanted a director who had personally experienced racism. [ 6 ] The scene where Russell collapses and has a breakdown was perhaps more realistic than most fans had realized.
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Deep Space Nine was the first Star Trek series to be created without the direct involvement of franchise creator Gene Roddenberry, the first set on a space station rather than a traveling starship, and the first to have an African American as its central character: Starfleet Commander, later Captain, Benjamin Sisko (played by Avery Brooks).