Movie Credits
15 Minutes	(2001)
[ David Bowie ][ John Lennon ][ Robert De Niro ][ Kelsey Grammer ][ Edward Burns ]
The Science of Big Al	(2000)
[ Kenneth Branagh ]
Quest for Life	(2000)
The Dogs of War	(1999)
[ Alexander Siddig ][ Michael Dorn ][ Rene Auberjonois ][ Keith Richards ][ Colm Meaney ]
Extreme Measures	(1999)
[ Alexander Siddig ][ Michael Dorn ][ Rene Auberjonois ][ Keith Richards ][ Colm Meaney ]
Tacking Into the Wind	(1999)
[ Alexander Siddig ][ Michael Dorn ][ Rene Auberjonois ][ Keith Richards ][ Colm Meaney ]
The Changing Face of Evil	(1999)
[ Alexander Siddig ][ Rene Auberjonois ][ Colm Meaney ][ Jeffrey Combs ][ Armin Shimerman ]
American History X	(1998)
[ Elliott Gould ][ Stacy Keach ][ Edward Norton ][ Edward Furlong ][ Ethan Suplee ]
The Big Hit	(1998)
[ Elliott Gould ][ Lou Diamond Phillips ][ Mark Wahlberg ][ Bokeem Woodbine ][ Antonio Sabato Jr. ]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger	(1996)
[ Rene Auberjonois ][ Armin Shimerman ]
Spenser: A Savage Place	(1995)
Spenser: The Judas Goat	(1994)
Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes	(1994)
The Ernest Green Story	(1993)
[ Morris Chestnut ][ Ossie Davis ][ Omar Gooding ]
Spenser: Ceremony	(1993)
Marian Anderson	(1991)
Roots: The Gift	(1988)
[ Louis Gossett Jr. ][ LeVar Burton ][ Tim Russ ]
Uncle Tom's Cabin	(1987)
[ Bruce Dern ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Edward Woodward ]
Finnegan Begin Again	(1985)
[ Giancarlo Esposito ][ Sam Waterston ][ Bob Gunton ]
Solomon Northup's Odyssey	(1984)
[ John Saxon ]

He was born into a musically talented family. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was a tenor who graduated from Tougaloo College in Mississippi in 1901. Crawford toured the country singing with the Delta Rhythm Boys in the 1930s. Brooks also is musically inclined having played jazz piano, and has performed as the great baritone/actor/scholar Paul Robeson in the play entitled "Paul Robeson". He sang the lead in the A. Anthony Davis opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X", and performed as "Theseus" and "Oberon" in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Washington's Arena Stage. Long affiliated with Rutgers University, he was the institution's first Black MFA graduate. Additionally, he served as the National Black Arts Festival's (NBAF) Artistic Director throughout the 1990s in Atlanta, Georgia. An actor, activist, musician, director, and educator of epic proportions, Brooks was quoted in an interview about his work with NBAF and his performances: "If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given--my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you".