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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).
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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% | 91% | 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 |