Brock Peters
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African American actor Brock Peters was a stage performer as early as 1943, long before he was old enough to attend CCNY. Peters made his film bow as Sgt. Brown in Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones (1954). Five years later, he appeared in another Preminger-directed musical film, playing the menacing Crown in Porgy and Bess (1959); coincidentally, he'd made his earliest stage appearance in that same Gershwin opera. Specializing in roles of unquestioned authority, Peters was at home with the villainous Rodriguez in The Pawnbroker (1965) as he was with the kindly Reverend Kumalko in Lost in the Stars (1974). Conversely, one of Peters' most impressive screen performances was as a victim; in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird, he played accused rapist Tom Robinson. His more recent movie assignments have included Admiral Cartwright in two of the Star Trek theatrical features (numbers IV and VI), and a brace of roles previously associated with white actors: reclusive Mr. Pendergast in Polly, the 1988 musical adaptation of Pollyanna, and the fatuous Reverend Chasuble in the all-black 1992 remake of The Importance of Being Earnest. Peters also produced the 1973 film Five on the Black Hand Side, and has from time to time pursued a nightclub singing career. On television, Peters was briefly a regular on the daytime drama Young and the Restless, and supplied the voice of Lucius Fox on 1992's Batman: The Animated Series. The recipient of numerous industry awards and honors, Brock Peters was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1976.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty |
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— | 2003 |
80% | The Wild Thornberrys Movie |
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$39.8M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Locket |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 10,000 Black Men Named George |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Last Place on Earth |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Park Day |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom |
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— | 1998 |
43% | Ghosts of Mississippi |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Element of Truth |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Cosmic Slop |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | You Must Remember This |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | The Secret |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | African Story Magic |
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— | 1992 |
82% | Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | The Great Los Angeles Earthquake |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Alligator II: The Mutation |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Polly |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | To Heal a Nation |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Broken Angel (Best Intentions) |
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— | 1988 |
81% | Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Joe Louis: For All Time |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | A Caribbean Mystery |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Billy Boy |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | SST: Death Flight (Flight of the Maiden) |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Aces High |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Framed |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Lost in the Stars |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Five on the Black Hand Side |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Slaughter's Big Rip-Off |
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— | 1973 |
71% | Soylent Green |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Black Girl |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The McMasters |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Ace High |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Daring Game |
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— | 1968 |
88% | The Incident |
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— | 1967 |
82% | The Pawnbroker |
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— | 1965 |
97% | Major Dundee |
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— | 1965 |
63% | The L-Shaped Room |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Heavens Above! |
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— | 1963 |
92% | To Kill A Mockingbird |
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— | 1962 |
83% | Porgy and Bess |
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— | 1959 |
77% | Carmen Jones |
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— | 1954 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Static Shock
2000-2004
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91% |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993-1999
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No Score Yet |
The Commish
1991-1996
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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33% |
Battlestar Galactica
1978-1980
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No Score Yet |
Quincy, M.E.
1976-1983
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No Score Yet |
The Bionic Woman
1976-1978
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No Score Yet |
The Streets of San Francisco
1972-1977
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Night Gallery
1970-1973
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No Score Yet |
It Takes a Thief
1968-1970
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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No Score Yet |
Rawhide
1959-1965
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40% |
Rick Moranis in Gravedale High
1990
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100% |
The Pirates of Dark Water
1992
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