Roscoe Lee Browne
Born	May 2, 1925(1925-05-02) Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
Died	April 11, 2007 (aged 81) Los Angeles, California, USA
Years active	1963 – 2007
Notable roles	Saunders in Soap
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Guest Actor - Comedy Series 1986 The Cosby Show

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Biography

Browne was the son of Baptist minister Sylvanus Browne and his wife Lovie (born Lovie Lee). Born in Woodbury, New Jersey, Browne first attended historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1946. He undertook postgraduate work at Middlebury College in Vermont, Columbia University in New York City, and at the University of Florence in Italy. Also an outstanding middle-distance runner, Browne won the Amateur Athletic Union 1000-yard national indoor championship in 1949. He occasionally returned to Lincoln University between 1946 to 1952 to instruct classes in comparative literature, French, and English. Upon leaving academe he earned a living for several years selling wine for Schenley Import Corporation. Despite his limited amateur acting experience, in 1956 he stunned guests at a party — among them opera singer Leontyne Price — when he announced his intention to quit his secure job with Schenley to become a full-time professional actor. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging... Woodbury highlighted in Gloucester County. ... Lincoln University in Pennsylvania is a four-year University located on 350 acres in southern Chester County. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... Middlebury College is a private, small, highly selective liberal arts college located in the rural New England shire town of Middlebury, Vermont, United States. ... Official language(s) None Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Area  Ranked 45th  - Total 9,620 sq mi (24,923 km²)  - Width 80 miles (130 km)  - Length 160 miles (260 km)  - % water 3. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The University of Florence (Università degli Studi di Firenze, UNIFI) is one of the largest and oldest universities in Italy. ... - The Amateur Athletic Union, widely known as the AAU, was formed in United States. ... See also: 1948 in sports, other events of 1949, 1950 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto racing The first 24 hours of Le Mans is held since the beginning of World War II. Luigi Chinetti and Lord Seldson win the race in a Ferrari 166M. Baseball... Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated Comp. ... English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics... Legendary Leontyne Price by Jack Mitchell, 1981 Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American opera singer (soprano). ...

Acting career

Despite the apprehensions of his friends, Browne managed to land the roles of soothsayer and Pindarus in Julius Caesar, directed by Joseph Papp for New York City's first Shakespeare Festival Theater. More work with the Shakespeare Festival Theater followed, and in 1961 he starred as J. J. Burden in The Connection (1961), his first movie role. Despite lacking the physical attractiveness of a leading man, numerous film roles established his reputation as an exceptionally versatile character actor who was also capable of performing scene-stealing cameos. The Tragedy of Julius Cæsar, more commonly known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare probably written in 1599. ... Joseph Papp (1921 - 1991) was an American theatre producer and director. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Endowed with a resonant, baritone voice and able to project cynicism and a haughty, patrician tone cultivated over the years from reciting lines from Shakespeare, Browne was much in demand for narration and voice-over parts in film and on vinyl albums, audio tapes and CDs he recorded poetry readings, passages from the Bible, and assorted literary works. He returned time and again to the stage to act in Shakespearean plays, and in on- and off-Broadway modern dramas and musical comedies. Baritone (French: ; German: ; Italian: ) is most commonly the type of male voice that lies between bass and tenor. ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...

With a strong sense of himself, Browne was determined not to accept stereotyped and demeaning roles that had routinely been offered to black actors, and he resisted emulating fellow actors. Browne also desired to do more than act and narrate, and in 1966 he wrote and made his directorial stage debut with A Hand is On the Gate: An Evening of Negro Poetry and Folk Music starring Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Moses Gunn, and other rising black talent. A lifelong bachelor who coveted his privacy, in the turbulent decades of the civil rights revolution Browne avoided participation in public protests preferring instead to be “more effective on stage with metaphor…than in the streets with an editorial” (Troupe, 92). A Masai man in Kenya Black people or blacks is a political, social or cultural classification of people. ... Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... James Earl Jones (b. ... Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993) was an American actor. ...

His theatrical work brought him to the attention of producer Leland Hayward, and in 1964 he began a regular stint as a cast member on Hayward's satirical NBC-TV series That Was the Week That Was. Starting in the late 1960s, Browne increasingly became a guest star on TV on both comedy and dramatic shows like Mannix, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Cosby Show and dozens of other shows. He also was a regular on the sitcom Soap where he played Saunders, the erudite butler from 1979 to 1981, replacing Robert Guillaume who went on to his own show Benson. Incidentally, Browne guest starred on Benson with Guillaume. His appearances on The Cosby Show also drew acclaim as well winning an Emmy Award in 1986 for his guest role as Professor Foster. Leland Hayward (September 13, 1902 - March 18, 1971) was a popular, powerful and wealthy Hollywood and Broadway agent and theatrical producer. ... That Was The Week That Was, also known as TW3, was a satirical television comedy programme that aired on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. ... Mannix was a television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Developed by executive producer Bruce Geller (who also created Mission: Impossible), the title character played by Mike Connors (an actor of Armenian heritage) is an Armenian-American private investigator. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that premiered on the NBC television network on January 14, 1972 and was broadcast for six seasons. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Soap was a successful American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981. ... See also: 1978 in television, other events of 1979, 1980 in television, and the list of years in television. For the United States network television schedule, please see 1979-80 United States network television schedule. ... The year 1981 in television involved some significant events. ... Robert Guillaume in 1980. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... An Emmy Award. ... See also: 1985 in television, other events of 1986, 1987 in television and the list of years in television For the American network television schedule, please see 1986-87 American network television schedule. ...

He and fellow actor Anthony Zerbe toured the United States with their poetry performance piece, Behind The Broken Words, which included readings of poetry, some of it written by Browne, as well as performances of comedy and dramatic works. Anthony Zerbe (born May 20, 1936 in Long Beach, California) is an American stage, film and television actor. ...

His most memorable film roles include Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, the title character in William Wyler's final film, The Liberation of L.B. Jones, and as the narrator in Babe. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential British film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Topaz, director Alfred Hitchcocks 51st movie, filmed between 1968 and 1969, was adapted from the book Topaz (ISBN 0-553-23547-8) by Leon Uris. ... William Wyler (July 1, 1902–July 27, 1981) was a prolific, Oscar-winning motion picture director. ... Babe is an Academy Award-winning 1995 Australian film that tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheep dog. ...

Browne died of cancer in Los Angeles on April 11, 2007, aged 81.^[1][2] is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Encomium

• We mourn the loss of our long-time Trustee and faithful friend. He was always to be counted upon to be supportive of the aims and purposes of the Society. He filled our lives with the soft sound of poetry as only he could recite it. Now the stage is empty and the lights are low. (Frank Crohn, President of The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society)

Filmography

Film

• Black Like Me (1964)
• Graham Greene's The Comedians (1967)
• Topaz (1969)
• The Liberation of L. B. Jones (1970)
• The Cowboys (1972)
• Cisco Pike (1972)
• The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)
• Superfly TNT (1973)
• Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
• Logan's Run (1976)
• Legal Eagles (1986)
• Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
• The Mambo Kings (1992)
• Naked in New York (1993)

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Television

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Voice work

• The Ra Expeditions (1972)
• Logan's Run (1976) Box the robot
• The Story of Star Wars (1977) Narrator
• Disney's Oliver & Company (1988)
• Babe (1995)
• Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
• Galapagos: Beyond Darwin (1996)
• Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
• Spider-Man (1995-1998) The Kingpin
• The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (2000)
• Treasure Planet (2002)
• Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
• Epic Movie (2007)

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Awards and recognition

• Obie Award (1965) - Best Performance for his role as the deceitful, mutinous slave Babu in the Robert Lowell play Benito Cereno
• Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor Award for his roles as Makak the mountain hermit in Derek Walcott's The Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970) and the voodoo priest Bynum Walker in Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1989)
• Inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1977

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References

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External links

• Roscoe Lee Browne at the Internet Broadway Database
• Roscoe Lee Browne at the Internet Movie Database
• Roscoe Lee Browne at the Voice Chasers Database
• Roscoe Lee Browne biography and video interview excerpts by The National Visionary Leadership Project