# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brock-peters
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:54:25.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brock-peters"
name: "Brock Peters"
slug: "brock-peters"
description: "Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the villainous \"Crown\" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. He made his Broadway debut in the 1965 Norman Rosten play Mister Johnson. He was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his lead role as Rev. Stephen Kumalo in the 1972 Broadway revival of the musical Lost in the Stars. He received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1991 and a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992."
tagline: "American actor (1927–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brock_Peters_1961.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-07-02"
deathDate: "2005-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.65
  momentum:             1.07571649883811
  historical:           23.15694133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676349/"
    handle:    "nm0676349"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump