Please help me find the name of a S&S guest star!

He's an accomplished actor and director, beloved and well respected, a mentor to such modern actors as Lawrence Fishburne. He would be in his late '70's or early 80's, and is still alive to my knowledge.

He is African-American, short to medium height, with very traditional African features, and a deep, regal voice. He's gay, but only slightly "effete" in performance, appearing very erudite and dignified.

He guested as a rival for Fred's girlfriend's hand. The two gags I remember are lifting a chair by the leg with one hand, and allowing a wine to "breeeeeeeeeeathe."

Does anyone know the gentleman's name? Thanks for the help!

His name is:

Roscoe Lee Browne

Roscoe Lee Brown has since passed away. He also appeared on a Cosby show episode . The S & S episode where he and fred were fighting for Donnas attention was hilarious.

Originally posted by sltayo
Roscoe Lee Brown has since passed away. He also appeared on a Cosby show episode . The S & S episode where he and fred were fighting for Donnas attention was hilarious.

According to imdb...he hasn't passed away...in fact he has a movie coming out this year!

Well, I could have sworn that he passed away a few years ago. Sometimes people appear in movies before their deaths and the movie is released a few years later.:)

Originally posted by sltayo
Well, I could have sworn that he passed away a few years ago. Sometimes people appear in movies before their deaths and the movie is released a few years later.:)

True, but there is no listing of a death date on the site. Plus, there are a couple of projects he has been working on in the past couple of years. Sadly, he's one of the only "oldtimers" from S&S that is still alive.

I'm glad to hear that Roscoe Lee Brown is still alive. I met him many moons ago in New York and he was using his Rap on me......... ;) I turned him down though..... :lol: By the looks of it he's not gay. :lol:

Originally posted by Pitooey
I'm glad to hear that Roscoe Lee Brown is still alive. I met him many moons ago in New York and he was using his Rap on me......... ;) I turned him down though..... :lol: By the looks of it he's not gay. :lol:

That's so cool you met him. Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but Roscoe was on All in the Family for a few eps, right? The main one I'm thinking of is when Archie's in the hospital. This guy (who he can't see because of a curtain or something like that is blocking his vision) the guy has a French accent and Archie gets a surprise when he actually sees the guy and sees that he's a black guy. That was Roscoe, right?

That's right Jenny, that was Roscoe as Mr Duvall, I think it was on "All in the Family." On commenting on what made Archie's aching back suddenly get better and make him want to leave the hospital, Roscoe said "It was that old black magic." lol

As a sidenote, Roscoe did the narration on the 1977 "Story of Star Wars" LP, as well as appearing on many other tv and film projects.

And also he played the guy from Larchmont on All In The Family where Archie gets stuck in the elevator with him,the janitor and his pregnant wife,and the nervous woman. I liked it when the lights briefly go out and he says "Boo" to Archie,and then tells him "What's the matter, Bunker, afraid to face the future???":lol:

It is indeed good to hear he is alive, I must have mistaken him for another actor. He is a classic charactor actor and yes he is one of the only veteran actors still alive , having recently lost Lawanda Page.

Originally posted by Pitooey
I'm glad to hear that Roscoe Lee Brown is still alive. I met him many moons ago in New York and he was using his Rap on me......... ;) I turned him down though..... :lol: By the looks of it he's not gay. :lol:



You seem to met the coolest people;)

Roscoe Lee Brown played Osgood. The man who was after Donna. Another actor played..."Lou Turner" who also wanted Donna. He owned a liquor store and was supposed to be Fred's competiton in the Senior Olympics!!

He is well known in the blaxploitation era. from what i remember he was also CONGRESSMAN BROWN in Uptown Saturday Night.

CB: it wasn't brothers..
Sidney Poiter: it was
CB: my people...my people..why do we keep doing these things


funny.

Originally posted by foxyhonky1975
You seem to met the coolest people;) Yes I have. If you work in NYC you see stars walking down the street. I met Roscoe in the early 80's in a place called the Adams Apple here in NYC. I was having fun with my friends and we were dancing at the time (upstairs). Little did I know Roscoe was checking me out (He was having a drink at the bar). Someone came up to me and asked me if I ever saw this man on TV? When I looked to see who they were referring to it was Roscoe. ( I'm going to post a picture of him if I find one.) I looked at Roscoe and immediately knew who he was because as someone mentioned he is a character actor. It was really funny. (I don't want to get into the the details of him rapping to me) but, he is a very nice man and a gentleman. :)

Here is a picture of Roscoe Lee Browne

Thanks, all, for the reply! Let me cover a few things:

First, Roscoe was very popular on the Norman Lear circuit, and made appearances in many other T.V. shows and films. The reason I brought him up is because I recently saw a few minutes of an "Inside the Actors' Studio," with Lawrence Fishburne as the guest. He gave a warm, almost fraternal thanks to Mr. Brown...who was in the audience! Now, I can't know when this was shot, but I'd assumed it was a coincidence with the release of "Matrix: Reloaded," therefore recent enough to suggest Roscoe was alive.

Thereby, also, some of my other comments. Of course, the lady who played the Oracle has since passed away, but that's a film release (and two were shot at the same time), so the delay was much greater. If all is good in the universe, we still have Mr. Brown with us.

As far as being gay, it was something that I thought was implied by Mr. Fishburne, and pretty directly, but I don't remember the quote (a "boyfriend" maybe?). Perhaps I read it wrong, or perhaps he's "gender ambivalent." ;^)

He's an actor whose work I always enjoyed as a kid. And, yeah, losing Lawanda Page (sp?) sucks...I didn't even know. I just found out that Albert Popwell died in 1999. He was the very INTENSE African-American actor who was popular on the Quinn Martin circuit, and played activists and heavies in turtlenecks. Perhaps his most famous moment was as Eddie Mustafa in "The Enforcer," to which Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry Callahan famously turns around Sam Greenly's line, with "that's mighty white of you." Unfortunately, I think Eastwood's parody is far more famous than the original. :^(

Well, thanks again for helping me remember a name I didn't want to forget!

Thanks to you too for telling us about the Insiders studio. I didn't get a chance to see it. It's been a long time since I've seen Mr. Browne so it was good to hear about him again.

The show is called "Inside the Actors' Studio," I'm pretty sure, and it's somewhere on cable. Hard for me to check because I haven't watched TV in my own house in 13 years (I know...SACRILEGE on this site,...but the shows just aren't the same as they used to be! ;^).

Also, my apologies to Mr. Browne for mispelling his name! :^0