ACTOR

Roscoe Lee Browne

1922 - 2007

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Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director. He resisted playing stereotypically Black roles, instead performing in several productions with New York City's Shakespeare Festival Theater, Leland Hayward's satirical NBC series That Was the Week That Was, and a poetry performance tour of the United States in addition to his work in television and film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roscoe Lee Browne has received more than 1,884,582 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Roscoe Lee Browne is the 5,155th most popular actor (up from 5,391st in 2019), the 7,517th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,022nd in 2019) and the 2,322nd most popular American Actor.

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  • 1.9M

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  • 46.84

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Roscoe Lee Browne ranks 5,155 out of 13,578Before him are Kaori Momoi, Dan Schneider, Julian Richings, Michelle Jenner, Kim Hyun-joong, and Asha Parekh. After him are Jeff Perry, Cecil Kellaway, Shawn Ashmore, David Garrison, Patricia Heaton, and Celia Imrie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Roscoe Lee Browne ranks 324Before him are Gustav Freij, Warwick Estevam Kerr, Per Olof Sundman, Olga Guillot, Solomana Kante, and María Luisa Bemberg. After him are Musa Gareyev, Jacques Lataste, Ilmar Kullam, Stoyanka Mutafova, Lidiya Ponomarenko, and Luis Aponte Martínez. Among people deceased in 2007, Roscoe Lee Browne ranks 293Before him are Jimmy Makulis, Roger Beaufrand, Dennis Johnson, Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, Igor Novikov, and René Rémond. After him are Pedro Cubilla, Hansjörg Felmy, Dumitru Pârvulescu, Ramón Marsal, Claude Netter, and Masao Takemoto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roscoe Lee Browne ranks 7,517 out of 20,380Before him are Brian Gottfried (1952), Edward O. Thorp (1932), Joseph Keller (1923), Schelte J. Bus (1956), Shirley Fry (1927), and Charles F. Hockett (1916). After him are Jeff Perry (1955), Ruby Bridges (1954), Richard Bass (1929), Andy Roddick (1982), David Garrison (1952), and Sonny Fortune (1939).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Roscoe Lee Browne ranks 2,322Before him are Richard Davalos (1930), Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (1978), Verna Felton (1890), Strother Martin (1919), Monte Blue (1887), and Dan Schneider (1966). After him are Jeff Perry (1955), David Garrison (1952), Patricia Heaton (1958), Kevin Conway (1942), Christine Estabrook (1952), and Chloe Webb (1956).