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  1. Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director.He resisted playing stereotypically black roles, instead performing in several productions with New York City's Shakespeare Festival Theater, Leland Hayward's satirical NBC series That Was the Week That Was, and a poetry performance tour of the United States in addition to his work in television and film.

  2. Roscoe Lee Browne. Actor: The Cowboys. He was a master class in cerebral eloquence and audience command...and although his dominant playing card in the realm of acting was quite serious and stately, nobody cut a more delightfully dry edge in sitcoms than this gentleman, whose calm yet blistering put-downs often eluded his lesser victims. Acting titan Roscoe Lee Browne was born to a Baptist ...

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    • April 11, 2007
  3. Acting titan Roscoe Lee Browne was born to a Baptist minister and his wife on May 2, 1922, in Woodbury, New Jersey. He attended Lincoln University, an historically black university in Pennsylvania until 1942, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he served in Italy with the Negro 92nd Infantry Division and organized the ...

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    • Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
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  4. Feb 11, 2007 · February 11, 2007 contributed by: Robert Fikes. Roscoe Lee Browne. Fair use image. Actor, director, and narrator Roscoe Lee Browne was born on May 2, 1925 in Woodbury, New Jersey, the son of Sylvanus Browne, a Baptist minister, and Lovie Lee. A bright student who excelled in the study of literature, Browne graduated from Lincoln University in ...

  5. Oct 5, 2005 · Biography. Digital Archive. Tony and Emmy award winning theatre, film and television actor Roscoe Lee Browne was born on May 2, 1922 in Woodbury, New Jersey. He attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania until 1942, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he graduated from Lincoln in 1946.

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  7. Apr 12, 2007 · Mr. Browne never married. Roscoe Lee Browne, a multi-talented actor of dignified bearing and stentorian voice, died April 11 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, The New York Times ...

  8. Jun 8, 2018 · The son of a Baptist minister, Roscoe Lee Browne was born on May 2, 1925, in Woodbury, New Jersey. During his youth in Woodbury he was both a promising athlete and a voracious reader. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Browne ran track for the historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1946.