Avery Brooks

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, MUSIC_DEPARTMENT

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Avery Franklin Brooks was born on October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana to a musically talented family. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was a tenor who graduated from Tougaloo College in Mississippi in 1901. Crawford toured the country singing with the Delta Rhythm Boys in the 1930s. Brooks also is musically inclined having played jazz piano, and has performed as the great baritone/actor/scholar Paul Robeson in the play entitled "Paul Robeson". He sang the lead in the A. Anthony Davis opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X", and performed as "Theseus" and "Oberon" in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Washington's Arena Stage. Long affiliated with Rutgers University, he was the institution's first Black MFA graduate. Additionally, he served as the National Black Arts Festival's (NBAF) Artistic Director throughout the 1990s in Atlanta, Georgia. An actor, activist, musician, director, and educator of epic proportions, Brooks was quoted in an interview about his work with NBAF and his performances: "If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given--my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you". - IMDb Mini Biography By: L. J. Allen-2

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Avery Brooks’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Avery Brooks on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1985 to 2013. See the full graphs of the number of Avery Brooks movies released per year from 1997 till 2013.

Top Genres

Avery Brooks works mostly in Documentary Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 38% of Avery Brooks movies are Documentary Genre movies. See Top Genres that Avery Brooks worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Avery Brooks has worked on is 7.2.

7.2 / 10

Avery Brooks's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Animation,Documentary,History
Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)

Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.

8.5/1030 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

The first half of this special is a recreation of Al's life, from birth through his death in adolescence.

8.1/1029 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Drama
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

In the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, the Federation space station Deep Space Nine guards the opening of a stable wormhole to the far side of the galaxy.

8.1/1045 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

7.6/1060 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Spenser: For Hire (1985)

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

7.3/1060 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Biography,Documentary,Sci-Fi
The Captains (2011)

The Captains is a feature length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed Starship captains within the illustrious science-fiction franchise.

6.8/1097 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

In December 1775, Kunta Kinte and Fiddler accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time and they learn that the son of the owner helps slaves escape, and the two of them try...

6.6/10100 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
15 Minutes (2001)

A homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.

6.1/10120 min

Available in 9 platform(s).