Brock Peters
Birthday: 1927-07-02
Place of Birth: Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Brock Peters or Brock G. Peters (born George Fisher; July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) was an American actor, best known for playing the role of Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and for his role as "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess. In later years, he gained recognition among Star Trek fans for his portrayals of Fleet Admiral Cartwright in two of the Star Trek feature films and Joseph Sisko, father of Benjamin Sisko, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was also notable for his role as Hatcher in Soylent Green.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace su...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
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Porgy and Bess
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...
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The Pawnbroker
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realiz...
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A Caribbean Mystery
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that...
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Two-Minute Warning
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major ch...
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Ace High
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and ...
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Soylent Green
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to...
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Alligator 2: The Mutation
A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake....
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Major Dundee
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Ar...
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The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the te...
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Framed
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system le...
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mou...
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The Incident
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train....
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Polly
An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use glad...
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Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slau...
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Black Girl
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter....
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The L-Shaped Room
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling w...
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The McMasters
When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local ...
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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints t...
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Samson and Delilah
From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "Samson and Delilah" tells th...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on...
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The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring ...
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Highway Heartbreaker
Slick amoral con man Mickey is out to fleece attractive women. But three of them join forces to brin...
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A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicte...
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Lost in the Stars
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg f...
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To Heal a Nation
The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. ...
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Heavens Above!
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, whe...
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Daring Game
Survival Devices, Inc are an organisation that employ a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fis...
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SST: Death Flight
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be abl...
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Tight as a Drum
A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is kille...
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew m...
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P.J.
Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble...
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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the me...
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Cosmic Slop
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny...
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Broken Angel
A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in cra...
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The Last Place on Earth
Rob Baskin, a businessman who travels to Lake Tahoe in order to spread the ashes of his late mother,...
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Carmen Jones
In this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jone...
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Puss in Boots
A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben V...
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Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson is a 1970 documentary film directed by Jim Jacobs about the boxer Jack Johnson....
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Park Day
Residents of a black Missouri community experience a long and eventful day of reckoning....
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10,000 Black Men Named George
In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open ques...
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Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and ...
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The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee boardin...
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Mahalia
Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer in the world. Shortly before her death in 1972, she e...
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Bloomer Girl
In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara...
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The Secret
Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which ...
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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to sei...
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Ghosts of Mississippi
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist ...
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Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter
In this alleged retelling of Lincoln's early life, the President-to-be is rescued by Henry, a Black ...
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The Locket
A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered wom...
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You Must Remember This
An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece find...
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