Georg Stanford Brown (born June 24, 1943 in Havana, Cuba) is a
Cuban-American actor and director, perhaps best known as one of the
stars of the ABC police television series The Rookies from 1972â€"76.
On the show, Brown played the character of Officer Terry Webster.Brown
was seven years old when his family moved from Havana to Harlem, NY.
At 15, he formed the singing group 'The Parthenons', which had a
single TV appearance shortly before breaking up. Brown quit high
school at 16, after being invited to do so by a few frustrated
teachers. He left New York to move to Los Angeles at 17. After a few
years of not being sure what he wanted to do, he decided to go back to
school. He passed the college entrance exam and was admitted to Los
Angeles City College where he majored in Theater Arts to "take
something easy". He ended up really enjoying it and returned to New
York to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He worked as
a school janitor to pay his tuition. He met his wife Tyne Daly while
at AMDA, where they both studied under Philip Burton, Richard Burton's
mentor. They were married for 24 years, from 1966 to 1990. They have
three daughters.Brown says he feels acting is just something he "fell
into". Six months out of school, he appeared in Joseph Papp's New York
Shakespeare Festival (now called Shakespeare in the Park), and next in
The Comedians with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. His work then
took him to Africa for four and a half months, Paris, then Southern
France. And a chance meeting with Alex Haley who was on his way to
Africa to work on a story he was writing (which turned out to be
Roots).During the 1960s, Brown had a variety of roles in films,
including Henri Philipot in The Comedians (1967), Theon Gibson in
Dayton's Devils (1968), and Dr. Willard in Bullitt (1968). His 1970s
films included Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), The Man (1972),
and Wild in the Sky (1972), co-starring Brandon deWilde, as anti-war,
anti-establishment guerrillas, who devise a scheme to destroy Fort
Knox with an atomic bomb.
Cuban-American actor and director, perhaps best known as one of the
stars of the ABC police television series The Rookies from 1972â€"76.
On the show, Brown played the character of Officer Terry Webster.Brown
was seven years old when his family moved from Havana to Harlem, NY.
At 15, he formed the singing group 'The Parthenons', which had a
single TV appearance shortly before breaking up. Brown quit high
school at 16, after being invited to do so by a few frustrated
teachers. He left New York to move to Los Angeles at 17. After a few
years of not being sure what he wanted to do, he decided to go back to
school. He passed the college entrance exam and was admitted to Los
Angeles City College where he majored in Theater Arts to "take
something easy". He ended up really enjoying it and returned to New
York to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He worked as
a school janitor to pay his tuition. He met his wife Tyne Daly while
at AMDA, where they both studied under Philip Burton, Richard Burton's
mentor. They were married for 24 years, from 1966 to 1990. They have
three daughters.Brown says he feels acting is just something he "fell
into". Six months out of school, he appeared in Joseph Papp's New York
Shakespeare Festival (now called Shakespeare in the Park), and next in
The Comedians with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. His work then
took him to Africa for four and a half months, Paris, then Southern
France. And a chance meeting with Alex Haley who was on his way to
Africa to work on a story he was writing (which turned out to be
Roots).During the 1960s, Brown had a variety of roles in films,
including Henri Philipot in The Comedians (1967), Theon Gibson in
Dayton's Devils (1968), and Dr. Willard in Bullitt (1968). His 1970s
films included Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), The Man (1972),
and Wild in the Sky (1972), co-starring Brandon deWilde, as anti-war,
anti-establishment guerrillas, who devise a scheme to destroy Fort
Knox with an atomic bomb.
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