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Avery Franklin Brooks is an American actor, director, singer, and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X. He is a tenured professor in the theater department at Rutgers University where he has taught since 1976.
Birth Name
Avery Franklin Brooks
Born
Saturday, 02 October 1948
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| What We Left Behind: Star Trek DS9 | Himself / Self - Captain Sisko | 2018 |
| For the Love of Spock | Benjamin Sisko / Benjamin Sisko (archive footage) | 2016 |
| Mysteries of Ancient China | 2016 | |
| The Captains Close Up | Self | 2013 |
| The Captains | Himself / Self | 2011 |
| For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2010 |
| Drain the Ocean | Narrator | 2009 |
| God v. Satan: The Final Battle | Self - Narrator / Himself (Narrator) | 2008 |
| The Better Hour | Narrator | 2008 |
| How William Shatner Changed the World | Capt. Benjamin Sisko | 2005 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| What We Left Behind: Star Trek DS9 | Himself / Self - Captain Sisko | 2018 |
| For the Love of Spock | Benjamin Sisko / Benjamin Sisko (archive footage) | 2016 |
| Mysteries of Ancient China | 2016 | |
| The Captains Close Up | Self | 2013 |
| The Captains | Himself / Self | 2011 |
| For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2010 |
| Drain the Ocean | Narrator | 2009 |
| God v. Satan: The Final Battle | Self - Narrator / Himself (Narrator) | 2008 |
| The Better Hour | Narrator | 2008 |
| How William Shatner Changed the World | Capt. Benjamin Sisko | 2005 |
| Bible Mysteries | Narrator | 2004 |
| Def Poetry | Self | 2002 |
| Echoes from the White House | 2001 | |
| Land of the Mammoth | Narrator | 2001 |
| 15 Minutes | Detective Leon Jackson / Leon Jackson | 2001 |
| Jazz | (voice) | 2001 |
| Big Al Uncovered | Narrator (USA version) | 2000 |
| The Ballad of Big Al | Narrator (US-Version) | 2000 |
| Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks | Solomon Northrup | 2000 |
| Ultimate Trek: Star Trek's Greatest Moments | Capt. Benjamin Sisko | 1999 |
| Walking with Dinosaurs | Self - Narrator US | 1999 |
| American History X | Sweeney | 1998 |
| The Greatest Places | Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1998 |
| The Big Hit | Paris | 1998 |
| The Living Edens | Narrator | 1997 |
| Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond | Self | 1996 |
| Spenser: A Savage Place | Hawk | 1995 |
| Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | King Maximus | 1995 |
| The Science of Star Trek | Himself / Self | 1995 |
| Spenser: The Judas Goat | Hawk | 1994 |
| Gargoyles | Nokkar | 1994 |
| Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes | Hawk | 1994 |
| Spenser: Ceremony | Hawk | 1993 |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Benjamin Sisko / Captain Benjamin Sisko / Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko / Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko / Commander Sisko / Captain Sisko / Gabriel Bell / Commander Benjamin Sisko / Hippocrates Noah / Benny Russell | 1993 |
| Trackdown | Self - Presenter | 1991 |
| A Man Called Hawk | Hawk | 1989 |
| Roots: The Gift | Cletus Moyer | 1988 |
| Moments Without Proper Names | 1987 | |
| Spenser: For Hire | Hawk | 1985 |
| Finnegan Begin Again | Dude on Bus | 1985 |
| Frontline | (voice) | 1983 |
| American Playhouse | Solomon Northup | 1982 |
| Nova | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
Director Filmography
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