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Obit: Roscoe Lee Browne, 81; award-winning film, stage, TV actor

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CrankyYankee

Roscoe Lee Browne, the Emmy-award winning actor...died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
When Robert Guillaume's character Benson left to star in his own series, Browne replaced him in 1980 as the butler to the Tate family on the ABC series "Soap." He also appeared as Rosemont on the CBS prime-time drama "Falcon Crest" (and) in a 1972 episode of "All in the Family" when Browne, playing a snobbish attorney, got stuck in an elevator with Archie Bunker and a pregnant woman.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...ry?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=1&cset=true
 
Mr. Brown must have worked almost up until the end. I noticed his voiceover - he had a very distinctive voice and cultured accent - just a day or two ago in a TV commercial - for AT&T yellow pages, if I remember correctly. RIP.
 
Lkeller said:
Mr. Brown must have worked almost up until the end. I noticed his voiceover - he had a very distinctive voice and cultured accent - just a day or two ago in a TV commercial - for AT&T yellow pages, if I remember correctly. RIP.
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Creepy: I heard that ad last night while driving around and for some reason had this though: "I thought he was dead?" (I was thinking of a different actor's name, but had Mr. Browne in mind)

Browne was one of those guys who would guest star in a show and pretty much steal it from all the regulars. I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
 
CrankyYankee said:
Roscoe Lee Browne, the Emmy-award winning actor...died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
When Robert Guillaume's character Benson left to star in his own series, Browne replaced him in 1980 as the butler to the Tate family on the ABC series "Soap." He also appeared as Rosemont on the CBS prime-time drama "Falcon Crest" (and) in a 1972 episode of "All in the Family" when Browne, playing a snobbish attorney, got stuck in an elevator with Archie Bunker and a pregnant woman.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...ry?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=1&cset=true
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On a later episode of "All In The Family" (around 1973), Browne was a fellow patient who was next to Archie in the hospital when Archie was hospitalized by his chain-smoking doctor for job/stress-related back pain. Since there was a curtain between Archie and Browne, they had a nice conversation going between them - until a nurse pulled the curtain back. Archie, naturally enough, said to Browne's character, "You're colored!" Each thought that they were speaking to someone of the same race. Archie wanted to get out of the hospital at that moment - and did, as his back pain went away! Browne replied that Archie got better because of "that old black magic!" ;D
 
The episode of All In The Family where Archie is stuck in the elevator with Roscoe as an attorney from Larchmont, the Puerto Rican janitor (played by Percy Rodriguez (years later a regular on Chicago Hope) and his pregnant wife
and the neurotic woman played by Eileen Brennan in another early acting role is a classic. The part where the lights go out and everybody is scared and then when the lights come back on and Roscoe says Hello to Archie is hilarious.

Another show that Roscoe was a guest on was Sanford and Son where he played Donna's patient Osgood and Fred was jealous of him. That episode was hilarious as well especially where Roscoe displayed his strength to Fred by lifting a chair on the floor while lighting a cigarette.
 
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