ROSCOE LEE BROWNE BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Roscoe Lee Browne was born on May 2nd, 1925 in Woodbury, New Jersey.  After high school he earned his college degree from Lincoln University and then proceeded to earn a graduate degree from Middlebury College.  During high school and college he excelled as a track star and later competed internationally. 

He began his career as a French and literature teacher at Lincoln University and also worked for a time as a  sales rep for a wine and liquor company.  With no formal acting training, he one day for no apparent reason decided to try and embark on a career as an actor.
 
He auditioned for the New York Shakespeare Festival for a role in the play, "Julius Caesar" and got the part of Soothsayer.  Thereafter, he appeared in such productions as, Taming of the Shrew", "Titus Andronicus", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Troilus and Cressida".
 
Soon he began adding a number of more successful stage credits to his resume such as, "The Blacks", "The Dream on Monkey Mountain" and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone".  He also appeared in such Broadway plays as, "A Cool World", "General Seegar", "Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright" and "Danton's Death". 

In addition to working as a stage actor he also gained experience on the other side of the industry writing and directing the play, "A Hand Is on the Gate: An Evening of Negro Poetry and Folk Music".

By the mid 1960's, Roscoe also began appearing in such films as, "The Connection" (1962), "The Comedians" (1967) co-starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Paul Ford, Lillian Gish, Raymond St. Jacques, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones and Georg Stanford Brown, "Up Tight!" (1968) with Raymond St. Jacques and Ruby Dee, Alfred Hitchcock's "Topaz" (1969) starring Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Karin Dor, John Vernon, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, John Forsythe and Per-Axel Arosenius, "The Liberation of L.B. Tight!" (1968), "The Cowboys" (1972) starring John Wayne, A Martinez, Slim Pickens, Bruce Dern, Robert Carradine and Colleen Dewhurst, "Super Fly T.N.T." (1972) with Robert Guillaume and Ron O'Neal, "Uptown Saturday Night" (1974) starring alongside Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Rosalind Cash, Calvin Lockhart and Harry Belafonte, "Logan's Run" (1976) starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Anderson Jr. and Peter Ustinov, "Legal Eagles" (1986) starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Christine Baranski, Terence Stamp and Steven Hill, "The Mambo Kings" (1992) starring Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Talisa Soto and Desi Arnaz Jr, and "Dear God" (1996) starring Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Tim Conway, Maria Pitillo and Hector Elizondo. 

He continued to alternate between stage and film work, returning to Broadway a couple more times later in his career appearing in the productions, "My One and Only" and "Two Trains Running".
 
Along with film and stage work, Roscoe graced the television screen with roles on such series as, "All in the Family", "Bonanza", "Sanford and Son", "Mannix", "Good Times", "A Different World", "Law & Order", "Will & Grace" and "The Cosby Show", a role for which he won an Emmy Award.  

Roscoe Lee Browne never married nor had any children of his own.  Some of his last appearances were on the television series, "Side Order of Life" (2007) and doing voice over work for, "Epic Movie" in 2007.  He passed away from stomach cancer on April 11th, 2007 in Los Angeles, California at the age of eighty one. 

 
Filmography

2009         The Telemarketers: 36 Hrs 
2007         Side Order of Life
2007         Epic Movie
2006         Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
2006         Independent Lens 
2006         Sweet Deadly Dreams
2004         Will & Grace 
2003-2004     Static Shock
2004         Tales of a Fly on the Wall
1992-2003     Law & Order
2003         Very Merry Christmas Sing Along Songs
2003         Behind the Broken Words
2002         Treasure Planet
2002         The Shield
2001         The Proud Family
2001         Morgan's Ferry
2000         Hamlet 
1999         Hope Island
1999         ER 
1999         The Wild Thornberrys 
1999         Hard Time: The Premonition 
1998         Babe: Pig in the City
1998         Judas Kiss
1995-1998     Spider-Man 
1997         EZ Streets 
1997         The Notorious 7 
1996         Cosby 
1996         Dear God
1996         Forest Warrior
1996         CBS Schoolbreak Special
1996         New York Undercover 
1996         Spider-Man: Sins of the Fathers 
1995         The Pompatus of Love
1995         Freakazoid!
1995         Last Summer in the Hamptons
1995         Babe
1995         Sweet Justice
1995         The Beast
1994         The John Larroquette Show
1994         Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
1994         Batman 
1993-1994     SeaQuest 2032
1993         Naked in New York
1992         Noel
1988-1992     A Different World
1992         Eddie Presley
1992         The Mambo Kings
1992         You Must Remember This
1991         Baby Talk 
1991         The Pirates of Dark Water 
1991         Open Window
1990         Swamp Thing 
1990         Night Angel
1990         Father Dowling Mysteries 
1990         Columbo
1990         Moon 44
1989         Lady in the Corner
1989         Stuck with Each Other 
1989         Ring Raiders 
1988-1989     The Real Ghost Busters 
1988         Oliver & Company
1988         Falcon Crest
1988         Highway to Heaven
1987         Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light 
1986-1987     The Cosby Show 
1987         227 
1987         The Nativity
1987         Moments Without Proper Names
1986         John Grin's Christmas 
1986         Head of the Class 
1986         Jumpin' Jack Flash
1986         Legal Eagles
1986         Blacke's Magic 
1986         Foofur 
1985         Space
1983         American Playhouse 
1983         Magnum, P.I. 
1981         CBS Children's Mystery Theatre 
1980-1981     Soap
1980         Nothing Personal
1980         Hart to Hart 
1980         Benson
1979         Miss Winslow and Son 
1978         Once Upon a Classic 
1978         Meeting of Minds 
1977-1978     Maude
1978         Dr. Scorpion
1978         King 
1977         Starsky and Hutch 
1977         Twilight's Last Gleaming
1976         Logan's Run
1975         McCoy 
1975         Barney Miller 
1975         The Big Rip-Off 
1974         Planet of the Apes 
1974         Uptown Saturday Night
1974         Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love 
1974         Good Times 
1973         Super Fly T.N.T.
1973         The World's Greatest Athlete
1973         The Streets of San Francisco 
1972-1973     All in the Family
1972         Sanford and Son
1972         Bonanza 
1972         Cisco Pike
1972         The Cowboys
1970         Swing Out, Sweet Land 
1969-1970     The Name of the Game 
1970         The Liberation of L.B. Jones
1969         Topaz
1969         The Outcasts
1969         Me and My Brother
1968         Up Tight!
1968         The Invaders 
1968         Mannix 
1968         Insight
1967         The Comedians
1967         NET Playhouse 
1964         Black Like Me
1964         Bertolt Brecht: Übungstücke für Schauspieler
1964         Terror in the City
1963         Espionage 
1963         East Side/West Side
1962         The Connection