Avery Brooks

Brooks as Sisko

Avery Brooks (born October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American actor.

He has made movie and television appearances since the 1980s (Uncle Tom's Cabin, American History X, A Man Called Hawk, Spenser: For Hire). He is always dedicated to the issues around African-Americans and recently plays Shakespeare. He is also Associate Professor in Theater Arts at Rutgers University. Brooks is perhaps best known for the leading role of Benjamin Sisko on the science-fiction television series Star Trek:Deep Space Nine.


Selected Filmography

  • 15 Minutes
  • American History X
  • The Big Hit

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. After Gilligan's Island he appeared in several other movies and televsion shows, perhaps most notably the miniseries Vanished, based on a novel by Fletcher Knebel (1971), uncredited in the Robert Redford spy thriller, Three Days of the Condor (1975), and on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara. Brooks is perhaps best known for the leading role of Benjamin Sisko on the science-fiction television series Star Trek:Deep Space Nine. Unlike fellow cast member Tina Louise, who was equally typecast as retro-glamourous movie queen Ginger Grant, he has willingly participated in all reunion movies, cartoons, and other events related to the program. He is also Associate Professor in Theater Arts at Rutgers University. He is still instantly recognizable to the show's legions of fans, but his ability to be cast in other sorts of roles has been quite limited. He is always dedicated to the issues around African-Americans and recently plays Shakespeare. Johnson was typecast in this sort of role, and seems to have regarded his stint as The Professor as a mixed blessing.

He has made movie and television appearances since the 1980s (Uncle Tom's Cabin, American History X, A Man Called Hawk, Spenser: For Hire). The Professor was a genius who could build and devise ways of doing almost anything, except something which would get himself and the other castaways off of the island. Avery Brooks (born October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American actor. However, he is by far best known to the public as "The Professor" (a/k/a "Roy Hinckley") on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island, which was in first-run from 1964 to 1967 but has been shown in reruns essentially continuously since that time. The Big Hit. He also appeared in a Ma and Pa Kettle vehicle. American History X. Johnson's Hollywood career began in 1952, and his early roles were primarily in westerns and science fiction.

15 Minutes. He became a close friend of Audie Murphy and later appeared with him in one of his films. He had a very distinguished record and was higly decorated for his service. Mister Johnson joined the Army Air Corps in World War II and served as a gunner on bombers. Johnson (born November 10, 1924) is an American television and film actor.

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