Avery BrooksNationality:
American Birthdate:
10/02/1948 Birthplace:
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biography
This tenured faculty member of Rutgers University's drama department enjoyed a varied performing career singing jazz, acting in Shakespeare and appearing in occasional regional and off-Broadway ventures when wide popular success on TV in the 1980s arrived as he approached middle age. With his booming voice, piercing gaze and forthright manner, Brooks made a galvanizing sidekick of sorts for Robert Urich as the bald-pated, rather mysterious Hawk on the popular ABC detective drama, "Spenser: For Hire" (1985-88). When that show went off the air Brooks continued for a season with his own spinoff
Credits
milestones
Year
Milestone
1979
Played actor-singer Paul Robeson in an off-Broadway production dealing with blacklisting in the 1950s, "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?"
1982
Premiered on-man show "Paul Robeson"
1984
Played the title role in "Solomon Northrup's Odyssey", a PBS drama based on the writings of a mid-19th century American slave
1985
Played Hawk on the ABC detective series, "Spenser: For Hire"
1987
Played Uncle Tom in a made-for-Showtime TV adaptation, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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