![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Actor Born: June 24, 1943 in Havana, Cuba Biography:African-American actor/director "Georg Stanford Brown" was seven-years-old when his family moved from Havana to Harlem. Chronically absent during his high school years, "Brown" was invited to drop out by his frustrated teachers. At 15, he organized a singing group called the Parthenons, which broke up after a single network TV appearance. He moved to Los Angeles at 17, where, after passing the college entrance exam, he enrolled in the L.A. City College theater program. "I just wanted to take something easy," he explained later, "but after a while I really got to like it." He liked it well enough to study further at New York's American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Making his professional stage debut in "Joseph Papp"'s Central Park Shakespearean productions, "Brown" headed back to L.A., certain that his theatrical credits would assure him steady work in films and TV, which they did, though at a... Full Biography
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