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Brock Peters

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American actor (1927-2005)

United StatesActorsLived 1927 to 2005 · aged 78
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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.

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Photos 3

Filmography 40

To Kill a Mockingbird1962 · ★ 8.0
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home1986 · ★ 7.2
Soylent Green1973 · ★ 6.9
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country1991 · ★ 7.0
The Wild Thornberrys Movie2002 · ★ 6.4
Ace High1968 · ★ 6.5
Major Dundee1965 · ★ 6.7
Ghosts of Mississippi1996 · ★ 6.6
The Pawnbroker1965 · ★ 7.1
Carmen Jones1954 · ★ 6.2
Two-Minute Warning1976 · ★ 6.3
Alligator 2: The Mutation1991 · ★ 4.9
The Incident1967 · ★ 7.4
The L-Shaped Room1962
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake1990
Porgy and Bess1959
Polly1989
Heavens Above!1963
A Caribbean Mystery1983
P.J.1968
Framed1975
The Locket2002
The McMasters1970
Black Girl1972
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off1973
SST: Death Flight1978
10,000 Black Men Named George2002
Jack Johnson1970
Five on the Black Hand Side1973
Lost in the Stars1974
Gone Are the Days!1963
Broken Angel1988
Samson and Delilah1986
Cosmic Slop1994
Park Day1998
Fearful Symmetry1998
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel1979
To Heal a Nation1988
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty2003
The Last Place on Earth2002

120 credits on file

Television 24

The Mike Douglas Show1961
Murder, She Wrote1984
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine1993
Tony Awards1956
Batman: The Animated Series1992
Mission: Impossible1966
Magnum, P.I.1980
Daniel Boone1964
Mannix1967
Samurai Jack2001
Johnny Bravo1997
DuckTales1987
Quincy, M.E.1976
The Merv Griffin Show1962
The Wild Thornberrys1998
Rawhide1959
Gunsmoke1955
The Pretender1996
Cagney & Lacey1982
Battlestar Galactica1978
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters1994
Night Gallery1970
The Bionic Woman1976
Static Shock2000

Awards 4

2001Paul Robeson Award
1976Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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About this person

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.

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1927 to 2005 · aged 78
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25 languages

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