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Avery Brooks

Avery Brooks

Highest Rated: 84% American History X (1998)

Lowest Rated: 32% 15 Minutes (2001)

Birthday: Oct 2, 1948

Birthplace: Evansville, Indiana, USA

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 series, "A Man Called Hawk" (1989).

Highest rated movies

84% American History X
41% The Big Hit
32% 15 Minutes

Photos

AMERICAN HISTORY X, from left: Avery Brooks, Edward Furlong, 1998, © New Line THE BIG HIT, Avery Brooks, 1998, (c)TriStar Pictures THE BIG HIT, Avery Brooks, 1998, (c) TriStar AMERICAN HISTORY X, Avery Brooks, Edward Norton, 1998, (c)New Line Cinema
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mysteries of Ancient China Unknown (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet 83% For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots Narrator - 2010
32% 37% 15 Minutes Leon Jackson (Character) $24.4M 2001
No Score Yet 60% The Greatest Places Narrator - 1998
84% 96% American History X Bob Sweeney (Character) $6.7M 1998
41% 57% The Big Hit Paris (Character) $27.1M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Africa's Elephant Kingdom Narrator $13.5M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spenser: A Savage Place Hawk (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spenser: The Judas Goat Hawk (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes Hawk (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spenser: Ceremony Hawk (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 82% The Ernest Green Story Rev. Lawson (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 78% Roots: The Gift Cletus Moyer (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet 53% Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spenser: For Hire Hawk (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 42% Half Slave, Half Free Solomon Northup (Character) - 1984

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Captains Close-Up Guest 2013
100% 93% Walking with Dinosaurs Narrator (Guest Star) 1999
91% 89% Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko (Character),
Director 		1993-1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Living Edens Narrator 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Man Called Hawk Hawk (Character) 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spenser: For Hire Hawk (Character) 1985-1988