Brock Peters

Brock Peters

Nacimiento : 1927-07-02, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 2005-08-23

Historia

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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Brock Peters
Brock Peters

Películas

Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
Himself
Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame racism and personal tragedy to become one of the most acclaimed performers of Hollywood's golden age. The film combines rare historical footage of Dandridge, on and off the stage, and interviews with stars such as Laurence Fishburne, Jasmine Guy and Halle Berry discussing her powerful legacy.
Los Thornberrys: La película
Jomo (voice)
Primera adaptación al cine de la serie televisiva de Nickelodeon, protagonizada por la aventurera y pintoresca familia Thornberry. Durante un viaje de safari en África realizando documentales sobre la naturaleza, la hija Eliza conoce a un misterioso chamán que le concede el don de poder hablar con los animales. Pero la impondrá una condición; si revela su don, lo perderá para siempre. Gracias a su nuevo poder, la joven descubre las intenciones de un grupo de cazadores furtivos para matar una manada de elefantes de la sabana. Eliza y su amigo el chimpancé Darwin se proponen evitarlo.
10,000 Black Men Named George
Leon Frey
In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact Pullman porters were often called "George" by white passengers, which was considered a racial slur.
The Last Place on Earth
Jack Field
While traveling to Las Vegas, a young businessman meets a woman who changes his life forever. With Tisha Campbell-Martin, Dana Ashbrook and Mitchell Anderson.
Park Day
Heseeit Turner
Residents of a black Missouri community experience a long and eventful day of reckoning.
Fearful Symmetry
Self
A documentary about the making of "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Fantasmas del pasado
Walter Williams
En la medianoche del 12 de junio de 1963, una bala acaba con la vida del activista en favor de los derechos civiles Medgar Evers, secretario de la Asociación Nacional para el Progreso de la Gente de Color en el estado sureño de Mississippi. Su asesino es el supremacista blanco Byron De La Beckwith, que resulta absuelto tras dos juicios nulos. Han pasado treinta años desde aquellos hechos, y el asesino sigue libre. ¿Es demasiado tarde para hacer justicia?
Cosmic Slop
Minister Coombs ("Space Traders")
In the tradition of The Twilight Zone, this bizarre, thought-provoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the world's minorities: Part I: A conservative African American politician must choose between his people's survival and appeasing his white colleagues when space aliens propose to share their profound knowledge in exchange for all black people on earth. Part II: The Virgin Mary's appearance in an inner-city housing project forces a Hispanic priest to face the hidden cultural origins of Western religion. Part III: On the dawn of the "Black Revolution," an African American couple discovers who the "real" enemy is.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Doctor Chasuble
An all-black version of Oscar Wilde's play.
The Secret
Thurgood 'Uncle T.' Carver III
Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.
La bestia bajo el asfalto 2
Chief Speed
Algo está matando a la gente en los subterráneos de la ciudad, un reportero cree que es un gran animal de la familia Aligator, pero nadie le cree.
Star Trek VI: Aquel país desconocido
Admiral Cartwright
Tras años de guerra, la Federación y el Imperio Klingon se disponen a celebrar una conferencia de paz. Pero el panorama de una negociación intergaláctica, con implacables enemigos, preocupa al Almirante Kirk. Cuando una nave Klingon es atacada y responsabilizan al Enterprise, ambos mundos se preparan para el que puede ser su encuentro definitivo.
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
David Motubu
Después de una serie de pequeños temblores en Los Ángeles, la Dra. Clare Winslow, una sismóloga local, señala la ubicación exacta y la hora en que el terremoto tan esperado, "The Big One", azotará el sur de California. Con esta información, ella debe luchar contra los funcionarios de la ciudad para divulgar esta información al público en general. Además, espera que su familia esté fuera de peligro cuando ocurra el terremoto. Las subtramas muestran cómo otras familias y personas se enfrentan a los temblores que azotan al inminente "Gran Uno".
Polly
Mr. Pendergast
An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
To Heal a Nation
Paul Turner
The true story of Jan Scruggs, an embittered Vietnam veteran who returns from the war a broken man. However, with the help of his loving wife Becky, he begins to find a new life for himself, and a personal goal when he agrees to begin a determined campaign to raise funds for a veteran's memorial.
Broken Angel
Sgt. Mercurio
A man combs Los Angeles for his missing daughter, and discovers she belongs to a gang dealing in crack.
Samson and Delilah
Priest (voice)
From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "Samson and Delilah" tells the story of the warrior Samson and the deception of Delilah.
Star Trek IV: Misión salvar la Tierra
Admiral Cartwright
En el siglo XXIII, un misterioso poder alienígena amenaza la Tierra, evaporando los océanos y destruyendo la atmósfera. En un frenético intento para salvar a la humanidad, el Capitán Kirk y su tripulación viajan en el tiempo y regresan al San Francisco de 1986, encontrándose con un mundo de punks, pizza y autobuses de cambio exacto, que les resultan tan alienígenas como todo lo que han encontrado en los lugares más recónditos de la galaxia.
Puss in Boots
Ogre
A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben Vereen). Starring Ben Vereen, Gregory Hines, Alfre Woodard, George Kirby, and Brock Peters. Narrated by Shelley Duvall.
A Caribbean Mystery
Dr. Graham
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort they're staying at is a Bluebeard-type wife murderer. Unfortunately, the Major succumbs to an apparently accidental overdose of alcohol and blood pressure medication before revealing the killer's identity. When it's discovered that the medicine belonged to another guest and the revealing photograph the Major was carrying is missing, Miss Marple realizes that the serial killer has struck again and more murders will follow.
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Morris Brown
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jim
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
Joe
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalachia of the 1930s and finds herself at odds with the homespun ways of the resident medicine woman.
The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance
Zechariah
A Confederate officer kidnaps for a $1,000,000 ransom five well-to-do children from a Yankee boarding school; a wounded black Union soldier helps them escape after they perform the necessary surgery to remove the bullet from his leg. But they are captured again, and it takes a lucky Union army attack to save them.
Aeropuerto 78: Vuelo supersónico
Dr. Ralph Therman
El primer vuelo supersónico con pasajeros está a punto de despegar con destino a París, repleto de personalidades y trasportando un cultivo biológico. En pleno vuelo, los mandos comienzan a fallar haciendo imposible cualquier maniobra. La situación se agrava cuando el cultivo biológico empieza a propagarse y afecta a los pasajeros.
Pánico en el estadio
Paul
En Los Ángeles, en la víspera de un importante partido de fútbol americano, un sujeto armado con un rifle de mira telescópica se dirige furtivamente hacia una de las torres del estadio Coliseum. Cuando se detecta al francotirador, se recurre a los equipos SWAT y al director de seguridad del estadio, el capitán Peter Holly (Charlton Heston), cuya misión será detener al individuo antes de que cunda el pánico en un estadio con más de 90.000 personas.
Mahalia
Narrator
Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer in the world. Shortly before her death in 1972, she embarked on a triumphant European tour, and this film is a record of that tour, and a portrait of a gifted artist and a warm, sincere woman.
Con la misma moneda
Sam Perry
Un hombre mata a un policía en defensa propia y le condenan a cuatro años de cárcel. Jura vengarse del alcalde de la ciudad y del jefe de policía.
Lost in the Stars
Stephen Kumalo
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
Tight as a Drum
Bill Evans
A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.
Five on the Black Hand Side
Producer
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Masacre
Reynolds
La mafia ha decidido eliminar a Slaughter, uno de sus asesinos a sueldo, pero el ataque fracasa y muere su hombre de confianza. La venganza de Slaughter no se hace esperar.
Cuando el destino nos alcance
Chief Hatcher
En el año 2022, la población de Nueva York, unos cuarenta millones de habitantes, vive en condiciones miserables. Para combatir el hambre se crea un alimento sintético, el soylent green, pero el policía Thorn y el viejo Roth, un superviviente de otra época, sospechan que detrás del nuevo alimento hay algo inquietante.
A Look at the World of Soylent Green
This promotional short film for Soylent Green (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth (click the "movie connections" link for the short list). The narrator then discusses the origin of the idea depicted in "Soylent Green": some time in the future, there will be too many people and not enough food to feed them. Director Richard Fleischer and star Charlton Heston discuss how an upcoming crowd scene will be filmed. Then we see what happens when the crowd riots because there is not enough food available to be distributed to everyone. "Soylent Green" was Edward G. Robinson's 101st (and, as it turned out, his last) feature film. During a break in filming, the cast and crew hold a ceremony celebrating the first film of his "second hundred", and Robinson makes appreciative remarks to the crowd. Studio head Jack L. Warner and friend George Burns are among those in attendance.
Black Girl
Earl
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Berdahl
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
The McMasters
Benjie
Finalizada la Guerra de Secesión, un hombre negro, vestido con el uniforme del ejército unionista, vuelve al rancho de su anterior amo, quien lo hace copropietario de sus tierras. Este hecho provoca la reacción de algunos vecinos racistas y fanáticos, cuyas ideas radicales acerca de la esclavitud y la diferencia de clases fundadas en el color de la piel, siguen muy arraigadas.
Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson (voice)
Jack Johnson is a 1970 documentary film directed by Jim Jacobs about the boxer Jack Johnson.
Los cuatro truhanes
Thomas
Cat y Hutch llegan a El Paso. Mientras los habitantes del pueblo trabajan preparando una ejecución llegan al banco, donde hacen entrega de una cantidad cercana a los 300 mil dólares en oro. Secuela de "Tú perdonas... ¡Yo no!" (1967).
P.J.
Waterpark
Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen. (Wikipedia)
Daring Game
Jonah
Survival Devices, Inc are an organisation that employ a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator. The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".
El incidente
Arnold Robinson
Dos jóvenes entran en un vagón de metro con una única intención: provocar el terror entre los pasajeros.
El prestamista
Rodriguez
Un superviviente del exterminio judío regenta una tienda de préstamos en el neoyorquino barrio de Harlem. Los espeluznantes y dolorosos recuerdos del campo de exterminio dominan completamente su vida.
Mayor Dundee
Aesop
Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865) El Fuerte Benlin, en Nuevo México, sufre un nuevo ataque de la banda de Sierra Charriba, un apache rebelde que, después de sus incursiones, se refugia en México. Esta vez se lleva como rehenes a tres niños. El mayor Amos Dundee (Charlton Heston), desobedeciendo las órdenes de sus superiores, recluta delincuentes, negros y prisioneros confederados para perseguir a los indios y rescatar a los niños; pero en México se interponen en su camino tropas francesas.
Gone Are the Days!
Producer
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
Cielos arriba
Matthew Robinson
Un error clerical conduce a que un sacedorte de izquierdas de un pequeño pueblo se encuentre en un pueblo de ricos, donde inmediatamente horroriza a sus snobs feligreses por designar a un basurero y a un hombre negro como guardianes de la vicaría y dejarla abierta a la familia Smith, quienes acaban de ser deshauciados de su caravana. Él convierte a la viuda aristócrata en trabajadora de la absurda caridad, pero pronto revolucionará al pueblo y muchos de sus habitantes... (FILMAFFINITY)
Matar a un ruiseñor
Tom Robinson
En la época de la Gran Depresión, en una población sureña, Atticus Finch es un abogado que defiende a un hombre negro acusado de haber violado a una mujer blanca. Aunque la inocencia del hombre resulta evidente, el veredicto del jurado es tan previsible que ningún abogado aceptaría el caso, excepto Atticus Finch, el ciudadano más respetable de la ciudad. Su compasiva y valiente defensa de un inocente le granjea enemistades, pero le otorga el respeto y la admiración de sus dos hijos, huérfanos de madre. Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Harper Lee.
La habitación en forma de L
Johnny
Jane (Leslie Caron), una joven francesa soltera y embarazada, llega a Londres y alquila un cuarto en una sórdida casa, cuyos huéspedes son toda clase de marginados. Cuando piensa en la posibilidad de abortar, se siente muy infeliz. Mantiene una relación sentimental con Toby (Tom Bell), un joven escritor que vive en la misma casa. Con el tiempo entabla amistad con la gente de la casa, pero sigue sin resolver dos problemas: qué hacer con el niño y con Toby.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Molo
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
Porgy y Bess
Crowne
En 1912, en un pueblo de pescadores de Carolina del Sur, Bess (Dorothy Dandridge), una mujer con mala reputación, trata de librarse de Crown, su amante (Brock Peters). La única persona dispuesta a pasar por alto su pasado es Porgy (Sidney Poitier), un tullido. Pero su relación se ve amenazada por la desaprobación de la gente y por el retorno de Crown. Basada en la ópera homónima del compositor George Gershwin, cuyo libreto es obra de Ira Gershwin y DuBose Heyward. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bloomer Girl
Alexander
In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her future. A solid success when it opened on Broadway in 1944, BLOOMER GIRL boasts a glorious score by the legendary team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg (THE WIZARD OF OZ). The book by Fred Saidy is set at the brink of the Civil War and addresses issues of women's equality (priorities were the right to vote and to wear bloomers, a liberating alternative to hoop skirts) and racial equality.
Carmen Jones
Sergeant Brown
Carmen Jones, una mujer acostumbrada a manejar a los hombres a su antojo, asedia a Joe, un joven soldado que piensa contraer matrimonio con Cindy Lou y al que no consigue atrapar. Aprovechando una pelea de Carmen con una compañera de trabajo, el sargento Brown, al que Joe no le es simpático, ordena al soldado que la escolte hasta la prisión, al tiempo que hace creer a su novia que Joe se ha prestado voluntario a esa misión.