Avery Brooks

Avery Brooks

Nacimiento : 1948-10-02, Evansville, Indiana, USA

Historia

Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, jazz musician, opera singer and college professor. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Perfil

Avery Brooks

Películas

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Himself
A documentary exploring the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the reasons it went from the black sheep of Star Trek to a beloved mainstay of the franchise, and a brainstorm with the original writers on what a theoretical eighth season of the show could look like.
The Captains
Himself
Documental que se centra en el Capitán Kirk original y su viaje a través de la franquicia Star Trek.
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
Narrator (voice)
This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and acknowledge the sacrifices and accomplishments of African-American service men and women since the earliest days of the republic.
Drenando El Océano
Narrator
This is a world you have never seen before - a world normally hidden under miles of water, the ocean floor. We'll remove the water using CGI animation, revealing a landscape of unimaginable scale with features more dramatic than anything on dry land.
God v. Satan: The Final Battle
Himself (Narrator)
Christians, Jews and Muslims believe there will a final battle between God and Satan. Believers and scholars are interviewed. Artwork and staged reenactments depict the end times.
Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
Himself
This History Channel special examines Christie's 40th Anniversary auction of the franchise's most recognizable film and television memorabilia, and features interviews with cast, crew and fans.
Deep Space Nine: A Bold Beginning
Himself
Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
Himself
The making of the iconic Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode.
15 minutos
Detective Leon Jackson
Oleg y Emil, dos criminales europeos, llegan a Nueva York para hacer fortuna. El detective de homicidios Flemming y el bombero Warsaw intentarán pararles los pies, pero se toparán con unos medios de comunicación que han hecho de los delincuentes héroes populares....
American History X
Sweeney
Derek Vinyard, es el líder de un grupo neonazi. La vida de Derek transcurre entre las acciones de su grupo (asaltar tiendas de inmigrantes, dar palizas a afroamericanos...) y su vida familiar: una madre enferma, una hermana, de ideas opuestas, y un hermano menor que lo idolatra. Derek es condenado por asesinato. Cuando sale de prisión, regresa a casa, dispuesto a empezar una nueva vida, pero descubre que su hermano prosigue el camino que le metió en la cárcel.
Los mejores lugares
Narrator (voice)
Sea testigo de la mayor colección de diversidad jamás producida. The Greatest Places es una película de gran formato que te lleva en un viaje a siete de los lugares geográficamente más dinámicos de la Tierra. Incluyendo el Amazonas, Groenlandia, las Cataratas del Iguazú, el Desierto de Namibia, el delta del Okavango, Madagascar y el Tíbet.
Africa's Elephant Kingdom
Narrator
This film explores an elephant clan's search for food and water as seen through the eyes of one old bull.
Equipo Mortal
Paris
Mel, un buscado asesino a sueldo, planea un secuestro rápido con cuatro socios, Cisco, Crunch, Wince y Gump, y así conseguir dinero fácil. Sin embargo, la cosa se complica y el tiro les sale por la culata, y lo que parecía un secuestro fácil se complica enormemente, ya que la chica secuestrada, Keiko, es la hija de un importante hombre de negocios, no es otra que la ahijada de Paris el jefe de Mel. Cuando uno de sus socios le traiciona, Mel se convierte en el principal objetivo de Paris. Mientras tanto, y como si todo esto no fuera suficiente, la amante de Mel, Chantel, se fuga con su dinero al mismo tiempo que los padres de su prometida Pam, reacios a la boda, llegan de visita. Los problemas laborales y caseros de Mel colisionan entre sí cuando este se encuentra a la vez esquivando a los sicarios de Paris e intentando causar una buena impresión a sus futuros suegros, comprobando cómo la lujosa vida que se había ido construyendo se le desmorona como un castillo de naipes.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
Benjamin Sisko
When a Klingon fleet under General Martok arrives at the station ostensibly to protect the Alpha Quadrant from the Dominion, Sisko recruits Lieutenant Commander Worf to discover the Klingons' true intentions.
Spenser: A Savage Place
Hawk
Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring that might be operating out of a previously-bankrupt movie company
The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek
Himself
How real is the 'science' in Star Trek?
Spenser: The Judas Goat
Hawk
Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk are drawn into a huge plot involving assassination attempts on African leader Winston Boyko by some racist terrorist named Paul.
Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
Hawk
When Spenser (Robert Urich), his psychologist girlfriend, Susan Silverman (Barbara Williams), and his right-hand man, Hawk (Avery Brooks), investigate a brutal murder in a quaint New England town, they discover plenty of illegal activity and cocaine. This 1994 made-for-television movie brings many of the beloved characters from the 1980s drama series (based on the books by Robert B. Parker) back to the small screen.
Spenser: Ceremony
Hawk
Spenser is hired to locate April Kyle, the missing daughter of Harry Kyle, millionaire and candidate for Governor. With the assistance of Hawk, Spenser travels from Boston's "Combat Zone" to Providence and the heart of child pornography in search of one seemingly unimportant runaway whom nobody wants found.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
Himself
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Behind the Scenes was a fifty minute documentary hosted by Terry Farrell that looked at the creation of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, specifically its pilot episode "Emissary". Written by Stephen R. Wolcott and directed by Donald R. Beck, the documentary first aired on 4 January 1993 as a syndicated special of the by Paramount Television produced current media affairs show Entertainment Tonight, at the time the franchise's primary publicity outlet for anything live-action Star Trek related. In the documentary, Farrell (Jadzia Dax) takes the viewer on a tour around the Deep Space 9 sets. The feature also has interviews with the cast, producers, writers and other production staff members and takes a look at the making of "Emissary".
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary
Benjamin Sisko
Three years after his wife died at the hands of the Borg and following the Cardassian withdrawal from the planet Bajor, Commander Benjamin Sisko and a new crew of Starfleet and Bajoran officers take command of an abandoned Cardassian space station and make an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy and Sisko's future.
Roots: The Gift
Cletus Moyer
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tom
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Moments Without Proper Names
Moments Without Proper Names makes Parks makes himself the subject, tracing his development as a person and an artist through an hourlong, non-narrative abstract self-portrait that combines Parks’s photographs with his musical compositions and scenes from his films. It also features footage of Parks, plus interpretations of his personal reminiscences performed by actors Avery Brooks, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Joe Seneca.
Finnegan Begin Again
Dude on Bus
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
Solomon Northup
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born freeman who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a freeman. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.