- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (13 video files (6 hr., 3 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Film actor, television actor, and stage actor Roscoe Lee Browne was born May 2, 1925, in Woodbury, New Jersey. Browne received his B. A. from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania; and his M.A. from Columbia University. Before college, he joined the U. S. Army during World War Two. Browne began his acting career with a small role in a 1956 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar. He became an understudy for Ossie Davis' performance in Purlie Victorious. Browne's role in the play, Benito Cereno, in 1963 launched his career. He won a Tony award for acting in the August Wilson play Two Trains Running. Browne has also appeared in television and film. He received an Emmy award for his work in The Cosby Show. Some of his numerous credits include Uptown Saturday Night, Babe, All in the Family and A Different World. Browne passed away April 11, 2007 at age 81.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Roscoe Lee Browne
- Roscoe Lee Browne
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000518913
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Roscoe Lee Browne.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
060339
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Paul Brock, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2005 October 5.
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2006 March 30.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Stage Actor Film Actor Television Actor.
- Added Author
Browne, Roscoe Lee, interviewee.
Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.