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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Roscoe Lee Browne.

Title
  1. The HistoryMakers video oral history with Roscoe Lee Browne.
Published by
  1. Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Browne, Roscoe Lee
  2. Brock, Paul, 1932-
  3. Hickey, Matthew
  4. Stearns, Scott
  5. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
  1. 1 online resource (13 video files (6 hr., 3 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. History Makers video oral history with Roscoe Lee Browne
  2. Roscoe Lee Browne
Subject
  1. Nonfiction films
  2. Internet videos
  3. Oral histories
  4. Interviews
  5. Stage Actor > Film Actor > Television Actor
  6. African Americans > Interviews
  7. Browne, Roscoe Lee > Interviews
Genre/Form
  1. Internet videos.
  2. Interviews.
  3. Nonfiction films.
  4. Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  1. Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
  2. Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Title
  1. The HistoryMakers video oral history with Roscoe Lee Browne.
Publisher
  1. Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of producing entity
  1. United States naf
Playing time
  1. 060339
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. computer
Type of carrier
  1. online resource
Digital file characteristics
  1. video file
Performer
  1. Paul Brock, interviewer.
Credits
  1. Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
  2. Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Event
  1. Recorded Los Angeles, California 2005 October 5.
  2. Recorded Los Angeles, California 2006 March 30.
Source of description
  1. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
  1. Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed term
  1. Stage Actor Film Actor Television Actor.
Added author
  1. Browne, Roscoe Lee, interviewee.
  2. Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
  3. Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
  4. Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
  5. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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