Avery Brooks
Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, jazz musician, opera singer and college professor. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk. Description above from the Wikipedia article Avery Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Oct 2, 1948 In Evansville, Indiana, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 30
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Solomon Northup's Odyssey 1984-12-11
- Latest Project:
- Movie What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 2018-10-12
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Self | 2018-10-12 |
| Movie | For the Love of Spock | Benjamin Sisko (archive footage) | 2016-09-09 |
| Movie | The Captains | Himself | 2011-07-22 |
| Movie | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | Narrator (voice) | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Drain the Ocean | Narrator | 2009-08-09 |
| Movie | God v. Satan: The Final Battle | Himself (Narrator) | 2008-10-19 |
| Movie | Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier | Self | 2007-02-19 |
| Movie | Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends | Himself | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | Deep Space Nine: A Bold Beginning | Himself | 2003-02-25 |
| Movie | 15 Minutes | Leon Jackson | 2001-03-01 |
| Series | Walking with Dinosaurs | Self - Narrator US | 1999-10-04 |
| Movie | The Big Hit | Paris | 1998-04-24 |
| Movie | American History X | Sweeney | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | The Greatest Places | Narrator (voice) | 1998-06-30 |
| Movie | The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek | Self | 1995-01-18 |
| Movie | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior | Benjamin Sisko | 1995-10-02 |
| Movie | Spenser: A Savage Place | Hawk | 1995-05-20 |
| Movie | Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes | Hawk | 1994-01-02 |
| Series | Gargoyles | Unknown | 1994-10-24 |
| Movie | Spenser: The Judas Goat | Hawk | 1994-12-01 |
| Series | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Benjamin Sisko | 1993-01-03 |
| Movie | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary | Benjamin Sisko | 1993-01-04 |
| Movie | The Ernest Green Story | Rev. Lawson | 1993-01-17 |
| Movie | Spenser: Ceremony | Hawk | 1993-07-23 |
| Series | A Man Called Hawk | 1989-01-28 | |
| Movie | Roots: The Gift | Cletus Moyer | 1988-12-11 |
| Movie | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Uncle Tom | 1987-06-14 |
| Movie | Finnegan Begin Again | Dude on Bus | 1985-02-24 |
| Series | Spenser: For Hire | Hawk | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | Solomon Northup's Odyssey | Solomon Northup | 1984-12-11 |