Biography
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.
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Awards & recognition
- Paul Robeson Award · 2001
- Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame · 1976
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Musical · 1973 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Batman: The Animated Series
You Must Remember This
Samurai Jack
Static Shock
Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron
To Kill a Mockingbird
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Night Gallery
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
The Pirates of Dark Water
DuckTales
Mission: Impossible
Murder, She Wrote
Roots: The Next Generations
Quincy, M.E.
The Pretender
Johnny Bravo
Magnum, P.I.
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Five on the Black Hand Side
McCloud
Rawhide
The Commish
Battlestar Galactica
The Pawnbroker
The Wild Thornberrys
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Galtar and the Golden Lance
Challenge of the GoBots
Cagney & Lacey
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
The Bionic Woman
Police Story
The Streets of San Francisco
Daniel Boone
Soylent Green
Mannix
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Black Girl
The L-Shaped Room
Major Dundee
Gunsmoke
Ghosts of Mississippi
Framed
Lost in the Stars
The Outcasts
Ace High