Brown appeared in a number of films during the 1960s, including Henri Philipot in The Comedians (1967), Theon Gibson in Dayton’s Devils (1968), and Dr. Willard in Bullitt (1968). Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), The Man (1972), and Wild in the Sky (1972), co-starring Brandon deWilde as anti-war, anti-establishment guerrillas who devise a plan to destroy Fort Knox with an atomic bomb, were among his 1970s films. In 1980, he appeared in the television film The Night the City Screamed, as well as Stir Crazy, alongside Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Later that year, in 1984, he played Lew Gilbert in the TV movie The Jesse Owens Story.
Georg Stanford Brown
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