Avery Brooks

Highest Rated:
82% American History X (1998)
Lowest Rated:
33% 15 Minutes (2001)
Birthday:
Oct 2, 1948
Birthplace:
Evansville, Indiana, USA
Bio:
Avery Brooks was educated at Oberlin College and Indiana University, earning degrees at both schools. Later he attended Rutgers University where he graduated MFA in acting and directing, becoming the first African-American to achieve this degree. In 1972 he became tenured professor at the Mason…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 33% - 82%
Number of Movies: 25
Box Office Since 2001: $24.2M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 The Captains
  • Actor
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2010 For Love of Liberty
  • Actor
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2010 For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
  • Narrator
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2001 33% 15 Minutes
  • Leon Jackson
$24.2M
2001 Jesus: The Complete Story
  • Actor
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2001 Half Past Autumn
  • Actor
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2000 Echoes From the White House
  • Actor
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2000 Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special
  • Actor
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1998 Africa's Elephant Kingdom
  • Narrator
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1998 41% The Big Hit
  • Paris
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1998 The Greatest Places
  • Actor
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1998 82% American History X
  • Bob Sweeney
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1995 Spenser - A Savage Place
  • Hawk
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1994 Sir Charles
  • Narrator
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1994 Spenser - Judas Goat
  • Actor
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1993 Spenser: For Hire: Pale Kings and Princes
  • Actor
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1993 The Ernest Green Story
  • Actor
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1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
  • Actor
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1993 Spenser: For Hire: Ceremony
  • Actor
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1991 Gordon Parks: Visions
  • Actor
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1988 Roots: The Gift
  • Cletus
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1987 Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Uncle Tom
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1984 Solomon Northup's Odyssey
  • Actor
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1984 Finnegan Begin Again
  • Dude on Bus
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Oceans in Space
  • Actor
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Quotes from Avery Brooks's Characters

    1. Bob Sweeney: There was a moment, when I used to blame everything and everyone for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn't get no answers 'cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions.
    2. Derek Vinyard: Like what?
    3. Bob Sweeney: Has anything you've done made your life better?
    From American History X. Submitted by Samira O (11 months ago)
    1. Bob Sweeney: Has anything you've done made your life better?
    From American History X. Submitted by Sara T (19 months ago)
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