Georg Stanford Brown (born June 24, 1943 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American actor and director, perhaps best known as one of the stars of the ABC police television series The Rookies from 1972–76. On the show, Brown played the character of Officer Terry Webster. He was seven-years-old when his family moved from Havana to Harlem.
Chronically absent during his high school years, Brown was invited to drop out by his frustrated teachers. At 15, he organized a singing group called the Parthenons, which broke up after a single network TV appearance. He moved to Los Angeles at 17, where, after passing the college entrance exam, he enrolled in the L.A. City College theater program. “I just wanted to take something easy,” he explained later, “but after a while I really got to like it.” He liked it well enough to study further at New York’s American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
Making his professional stage debut in Joseph Papp’s Central Park Shakespearean productions, Brown headed back to L.A., certain that his theatrical credits would assure him steady work in films and TV, which they did, though at a molasses-slow pace.
During the 1960s, Brown had a variety of roles in television and film, including a portrayal of Henri Philipot in 1967’s The Comedians, and playing Dr. Willard in 1968’s Bullitt. In 1972, Brown starred in Wild in the Sky, co-starring Brandon deWilde, as anti-war, anti-establishment guerrillas, who devise a scheme to destroy Fort Knox with an atomic bomb.
Brown later played Tom Harvey (son of Chicken George, great-grandson of Kunta Kinte, and great-grandfather of Alex Haley) in the 1977 television miniseries Roots, and 1979’s Roots: The Next Generations.
In 1980, he starred in the highly successful Stir Crazy opposite Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Later in 1984 he starred in the TV movie The Jesse Owens Story in the role of Lew Gilbert. He then went on to a supporting role in yet another miniseries North & South in 1985 as a character named Grady.
Brown co-starred in the Showtime television show Linc’s from 1998 thru 2000.
Brown also directed several second-season episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues.
More recently, Brown had a recurring role on the FX drama series Nip/Tuck.
Personal life.
Brown was married to actress Tyne Daly for 24 years, from 1966 to 1990. They have three daughters.
AS A DIRECTOR GEORG STANFORD BROWN FILMOGRAPHY:
Pioneers of Television
Reading Room (TV Movie)
Mystery Woman: Snapshot (TV Movie)
Angel in the Family (TV Movie)
Shackles
Judging Amy
Wedding Daze (TV Movie)
Long Shot: Believe in Courage (TV Movie)
Nip/Tuck
Brothers Garcia (TV Series)
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The Cuban History, Hollywood.
Arnoldo Varona, Editor.