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Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1922 [2] – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director.He resisted playing stereotypically black roles, instead performing in several productions with New York City's Shakespeare Festival Theater, Leland Hayward's satirical NBC series That Was the Week That Was, and a poetry performance tour of the United States in addition to his work in television and film.
The Cowboys is a 1972 American Western film starring John Wayne, [3] Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bruce Dern, and featuring Colleen Dewhurst and Slim Pickens. [4] It was the feature film debut of Robert Carradine.
Saunders (Roscoe Lee Browne) – Benson's replacement as the Tates' cook/butler. He is slightly more refined and polished than his predecessor, but no less disdainful of his employers. Annie Selig Tate (Nancy Dolman) – Eunice's friend who serves as her maid of honor at her wedding to Dutch. She later becomes Chester's second wife, earning ...
The World's Greatest Athlete is a 1973 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Scheerer and starring John Amos, Roscoe Lee Browne, Tim Conway, Dayle Haddon, and Jan-Michael Vincent. Released by Walt Disney Productions, it is one of the few wide-release Hollywood sports films to look at the world of track and field.
Roscoe Lee Browne played Box and has been the subject of discussion on race in Logan's Run. Prominent concepts in the film are "the dangers of hedonism, youth worship, and, particularly, the dangers of government-sponsored euthanasia". [28] The hedonism is primarily conveyed in the form of sensuality and "images of sexual abandon". [29]
James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Cicely Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou and Charles Gordone were among his castmates. He went on to appear in “Golden Boy” (1964), and later in ...
It stars Dominique Dunne and Roscoe Lee Browne. Plot Polly Ames is a fourteen year old girl returning to her father’s hotel, Harrington House, after some time away. ...
A Hand Is on the Gate is a collection of Black poetry and song that had a limited run on Broadway in 1966. The production marked the directorial debut of actor Roscoe Lee Browne, who also arranged the material and served as the show's emcee. [1]