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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
RIP Brock Peters
Brock Peters died Tuesday.
Filmgoers of a certain age remember Peters from To Kill a Mockingbird. But to me, and other Trekkies, Brock Peters is instantly recognizable as Admiral Cartwright and then, in a later incarnation, as Joseph Sisko. He was one of the first black actors to bring dignity and strength to television and genre films like Star Trek or Soylent Green. He can be seen on everything from "Murder, She Wrote" to the first "Battlestar: Galactica." He set the stage for actors like Dennis Haysbert and even Denzel Washington.
In 2003, he gave the eulogy for Mockingbird co-star Gregory Peck: "In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love... Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure."
So did Brock Peters.
Filmgoers of a certain age remember Peters from To Kill a Mockingbird. But to me, and other Trekkies, Brock Peters is instantly recognizable as Admiral Cartwright and then, in a later incarnation, as Joseph Sisko. He was one of the first black actors to bring dignity and strength to television and genre films like Star Trek or Soylent Green. He can be seen on everything from "Murder, She Wrote" to the first "Battlestar: Galactica." He set the stage for actors like Dennis Haysbert and even Denzel Washington.In 2003, he gave the eulogy for Mockingbird co-star Gregory Peck: "In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love... Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure."
So did Brock Peters.
Amen. Early in his career, Brock Peters was also a backup singer for Harry Belafonte. - GUY
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Birth name George Fisher by the way. - GUY
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