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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne dies at 81


April 12, 2007 Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long battle with cancer, family spokesman Alan Nierob said. Browne had a decades-long career that ranged from classic theater to TV cartoons. Born May 2, 1925, to a Baptist minister in Woodbury, N.J., Browne graduated from historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he later returned to teach comparative literature and French.

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