Georg Stanford Brown

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Georg Stanford Brown born June 24 1943 in Havana Cuba is a CubanAmerican actor and director perhaps best known as one of the stars of the ABC police television series The Rookies from 197276 On the show Brown played the character of Officer Terry Webster During the 1960s Brown had a variety of roles in television and film including a portrayal of Henri Philipot in 1967s The Comedians and playing Dr Willard in 1968s Bullitt In 1972 Brown starred in Wild in the Sky costarring Brandon De Wilde as antiwar antiestablishment guerrillas who devise a scheme to destroy Fort Knox with an atomic bomb Brown later played Tom Harvey son of Chicken George great grandson of Kunta Kinte and great grandfather of Alex Haley in the 1977 television miniseries Roots and 1979s Roots The Next Generations In 1980 he starred in the highly successful Stir Crazy opposite Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor He then went on to a supporting role in yet another miniseries North South in 1985 as a character named Grady Brown also directed several secondseason episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues More recently Brown had a recurring role on the FX drama series NipTuck Description above from the Wikipedia article Georg Stanford Brown licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia