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Rocoe Lee Browne, the famous voice has been stilled.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Actor Roscoe Lee Brown, whose distinguished voice earned him a Tony nomination (for 1992's Two Trains Running) and an Emmy (for his Cosby Show appearance as Professor Foster), has passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was 81. He also was a poet and a former world-class athlete. He graduated from historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and later returned to teach comparative literature and French. He also was a track star, winning the 880-yard run in the 1952 Millrose Games. He decided to become a full-time actor in 1956 and had roles that year in the inaugural season of the New York Shakespeare Festival's Julius Caesar. He would go on to star in countless stage and screen productions, many of which were narration roles as in a Broadway run of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and the silver screen children's film, Babe. 
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