Roscoe Lee Brown
Roscoe Lee Browne (Mei 2, 1922[2] – April 11, 2007) adalah seorang aktor dan sutradara berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Namanya dikenal melalui sulih suara yang indah dan berwibawa. Dia menolak bermain peran-peran kulit hitam secara stereotip, melainkan lebih banyak bekerja di bidang produksi bersama Shakespeare Festival Theater New York City, karya serial satir Leland Hayward di kanal NBC berjudul That Was the Week That Was, dan pembaca puisi yang tampil di seluruh Amerika Serikat, di samping bekerja di dunia film dan televisi.
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Lahir | [1] Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S. | 2 Mei 1922
Meninggal | 11 April 2007 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (umur 84)
Sebab meninggal | Kanker perut |
Almamater | Universitas Lincoln |
Pekerjaan | Aktor, sutradara panggung |
Tahun aktif | 1960–2007 |
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Tahun 1976, Browne dinominasikan dalam Emmy Award untuk kategori Penampil Tunggal Terpuji dengan mendukung aktor dalam sebuah serial drama komedi di kanal ABC, berjudul Barney Miller. Tahun 1986, dia memenangi penghargaan Emmy Award untuk kategori Penampil Tamu Terpuji dalam serial komedi, melalui perannya di kanal NBC berjudul The Cosby Show.[3] Tahun 1992, namanya masuk nominasi dalam Tony Award untuk kategori Best Featured Actor dalam sebuah naskah drama, atas perannya sebagai "Holloway" berjudul August Wilson's Two Trains Running.[4][5] Tahun 1995, dia dinominasikan dalam Daytime Emmy Award untuk kategori Penampil Terpuji dalam program animasi berjudul Spider-Man, atas penampilannya sebagai "The Kingpin".[6]
Browne dimasukkan dalam Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, tahun 1977[7] dan American Theater Hall of Fame, tahun 2008.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Kehidupan awal dan pendidikan
suntingLahir di Woodbury, New Jersey, Browne adalah anak keempat dari seorang Pendeta Baptis Sylvanus S. Browne dan istrinya, Lovie Lee (Usher). Dia lulus dari Sekolah Menengah Pertama-Akhir Woodbury pada 1939.[15] Browne kuliah di Universitas Lincoln yang secara historis berkulit hitam di Pennsylvania. Ia lulus dengan gelar sarjana di bidangnya pada 1946, karir kuliahnya terganggu oleh dinas masa perangnya.[16][17]
Selama World War II, Browne bertugas di Italia bersama Divisi Infanteri ke-92 Angkatan Darat Amerika Serikat dan mengorganisir tim atletik Divisi.[18] Setelah perang, dia mengambil pekerjaan pascasarjana di bawah GI Bill di Middlebury College, Universitas Columbia, dan Universitas Florence. Merupakan seorang pelari jarak menengah, ia memenangkan dua kejuaraan dalam ruangan nasional 1.000 yard dari Persatuan Atletik Amatir.[19][20]
Dia kadang-kadang kembali ke Universitas Lincoln antara tahun 1946–52 untuk mengajar Bahasa Inggris, Perancis, dan sastra bandingan. Setelah meninggalkan dunia akademis, dia mencari nafkah selama beberapa tahun dengan menjual anggur untuk Korporasi Schenley Import. Pada 1956, dia meninggalkan pekerjaannya dengan Schenley untuk menjadi sepenuhnya aktor profesional.[21]
Pada 1950 dan 1951 dia menjelajahi Eropa (sebagai seorang half-miler) dengan tim Atletik AS.[22]
Kematian
suntingBrowne meninggal karena kanker perut di Pusat Medis Cedars Sinai di Los Angeles pada pagi hari tanggal 11 April, 2007, berumur 84. Dia tidak pernah menikah dan mempunyai seorang anak.[23][24][25][26]
Dia dikenang atas kontribusinya dalam encomium New York Times oleh Frank Crohn dari Perkumpulan Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Kami berduka atas kehilangan Wali Amanat berjasa dan teman setia kami. Dia selalu diandalkan untuk mendukung maksud dan tujuan Perkumpulan. Dia mengisi hidup kami dengan suara puisi yang lembut karena hanya dia yang bisa melafalkannya. Sekarang panggungnya kosong dan lampunya diredupkan.[23]
Penghargaan
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Penampilan ddi radio
sunting- Native villager, The Endless Road, CBS Radio Workshop, CBS, 1956.
- Performer of Shakespearean roles for CBC Radio.
Penulisan
sunting- An Evening of Negro Poetry and Folk Music (readings), Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1966, produced as A Hand Is on the Gate, Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1966, revived at Afro-American Studio, New York City, 1976–77.
- Behind the Broken Words (poetry reading), Washington Theatre Club, Washington, DC, 1974, revived at American Place Theatre, New York City, 1981, and Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 2002.
Referensi
sunting- ^ Roscoe L Browne. United States Social Security Death Index. Church of Latter Day Saints. FamilySearch.org. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
- ^ Browne's year of birth was cited as 1925 through much of his career and at the time of his death. Since then evidence has emerged that he was actually born three years earlier, the most notable of which would be the Social Security Death Index:
Roscoe Lee Browne [Roscoe L Browne]
Gender: Male
Race: Black
Birth Date: 2 May 1922
Birth Place: Woodbury, New Jersey
Father Name: Sylvanus Browne
Mother Name: Louie [sic] L Usher
Death Date: 11 Apr 2007
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Jul 1940: Name listed as ROSCOE LEE BROWNE; 21 Apr 2007: Name listed as ROSCOE L BROWNE
Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index.
Other websites and census data also confirm 1922, as well as a YouTube video in which the actor gives 1922 as his year of birth. However, obituaries in the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, as well as his profile at IBDb, cite 1925. - ^ a b c Roscoe Lee Browne. Awards and Nominations Television Academy. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
- ^ a b Two Trains Running Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. 2001- 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016
- ^ Roscoe Lee Browne. Director, Performer. Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
- ^ Roscoe Lee Browne: Awards, Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ a b Inductees. Roscoe Lee Browne. Diarsipkan 2019-07-11 di Wayback Machine. Image 80 of 295. Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 23, 2016
- ^ Theater Hall of Fame American Theatre Critics Association. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
- ^ Dillard, Harrison; McIntosh, Michael (July 17, 2012). Bones: The Life and Times of Harrison Dillard. AuthorHouse. hlm. 48–49.[tanpa ISBN]
- ^ Roscoe Lee Browne Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ Roscoe Lee Browne Diarsipkan 2011-09-12 di Wayback Machine., lortel.org. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- ^ Robertson, Campbell (April 12, 2007). "Roscoe Lee Browne, 81, (sic) Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies". The New York Times.
- ^ Roscoe Lee Brown di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- ^ Annals of College: When She Called[pranala nonaktif permanen] Off the Blocks. September 21, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2016
- ^ Nash, Margo. "Jersey Footlights", The New York Times, November 14, 2004. Accessed September 6, 2009. "Roscoe Lee Browne has acted in many movies, from Cool Hand Luke to The Matrix.... And, by the way, he 'made a good shepherd' in the French class play at Woodbury High School, according to the Woodbury High yearbook in 1939, the year Mr. Brown graduated."
- ^ Robertson, Campbell (April 12, 2007). "Roscoe Lee Browne, 81, Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal September 7, 2023.
- ^ Kesalahan pengutipan: Tag
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- ^ Dillard, Harrison; McIntosh, Michael (July 17, 2012). Bones: The Life and Times of Harrison Dillard. AuthorHouse. hlm. 48–49. ISBN 978-1477237328.
- ^ Roscoe Lee Browne, Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ "USA Track & Field - USA Indoor Track & Field Champions". Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2021-05-18.
- ^ Bernstein, Adam (April 13, 2007). "Roscoe Lee Browne; Eloquent Actor Of Stage, Screen, TV". Washington Post. Diakses tanggal August 7, 2023.
- ^ Meet Results found on newspaper.com [1] Retrieved Oct 20, 2021
- ^ a b Robertson, Campbell (April 12, 2007). "Roscoe Lee Browne, 81, (sic) Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies". The New York Times.
- ^ "Actor Roscoe Lee Browne dies at 81 (sic) in Los Angeles". International Herald Tribune. Associated Press. April 11, 2007. Diakses tanggal 2007-04-17.
- ^ Roscoe L. Browne: Death Record from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) – GenealogyBank(perlu berlangganan)
- ^ Profile Familysearch.org. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- ^ 1969 – 1979 Awards LA Drama Critics Circle. 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016
- ^ Past Western Heritage Award Winners Diarsipkan 2015-12-19 di Wayback Machine.. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2016
- ^ 1980–1989 Awards, LA Drama Critics Circle. 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016
- ^ Awards for 1989. Soap Opera Digest Award Internet Movie Database. January 16 1989. Retrieved March 1, 2016
- ^ Roscoe Lee Browne. Director, Performer. Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. 2001- 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016
- ^ HHA Nominees & Recipients Diarsipkan 2018-08-27 di Wayback Machine.. theatreWashington. 2014. Retrieved March 1, 2016
- ^ Roscoe Lee Browne. Awards Internet Movie Database. 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2016
- ^ Theater Hall of Fame American Theatre Critics Association (ACTA). 2010-2013. Retrieved February 23, 2016
Pranala luar
sunting- Roscoe Lee Browne on Disney Wiki
- Roscoe Lee Brown di Internet Broadway Database
- Roscoe Lee Brown di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- Roscoe Lee Browne on Internet Theatre Database
- (Inggris) Roscoe Lee Brown di AllMovie
- Roscoe Lee Browne at Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 1, 2016
- Roscoe Lee Browne profile, at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection Diarsipkan 2014-05-02 di Wayback Machine.. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- Roscoe Lee Browne's oral history video excerpts, visionaryproject.com. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- Roscoe Lee Browne biography Diarsipkan 2009-03-30 di Wayback Machine., TheHistoryMakers.com. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- Profile, blackpast.org. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
- Roscoe Lee Browne reading Donald Barthelme's "At the End of the Mechanical Age"
- Roscoe Lee Browne: My Childhood (video interview). The National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP)