Browne's year of birth was cited as 1925 through much of his career and at the time of his death. Since then evidence has emerged that he was actually born three years earlier, the most notable of which would be the Social Security Death Index: Roscoe Lee Browne [Roscoe L Browne] Gender: Male Race: Black Birth Date: 2 May 1922 Birth Place: Woodbury, New Jersey Father Name: Sylvanus Browne Mother Name: Louie [sic] L Usher Death Date: 11 Apr 2007 Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Jul 1940: Name listed as ROSCOE LEE BROWNE; 21 Apr 2007: Name listed as ROSCOE L BROWNE Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index. Other websites and census data also confirm 1922, as well as a YouTube video in which the actor gives 1922 as his year of birth. However, obituaries in the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, as well as his profile at IBDb, cite 1925.
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Browne's year of birth was cited as 1925 through much of his career and at the time of his death. Since then evidence has emerged that he was actually born three years earlier, the most notable of which would be the Social Security Death Index: Roscoe Lee Browne [Roscoe L Browne] Gender: Male Race: Black Birth Date: 2 May 1922 Birth Place: Woodbury, New Jersey Father Name: Sylvanus Browne Mother Name: Louie [sic] L Usher Death Date: 11 Apr 2007 Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Jul 1940: Name listed as ROSCOE LEE BROWNE; 21 Apr 2007: Name listed as ROSCOE L BROWNE Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index. Other websites and census data also confirm 1922, as well as a YouTube video in which the actor gives 1922 as his year of birth. However, obituaries in the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, as well as his profile at IBDb, cite 1925.
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Browne's year of birth was cited as 1925 through much of his career and at the time of his death. Since then evidence has emerged that he was actually born three years earlier, the most notable of which would be the Social Security Death Index: Roscoe Lee Browne [Roscoe L Browne] Gender: Male Race: Black Birth Date: 2 May 1922 Birth Place: Woodbury, New Jersey Father Name: Sylvanus Browne Mother Name: Louie [sic] L Usher Death Date: 11 Apr 2007 Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Jul 1940: Name listed as ROSCOE LEE BROWNE; 21 Apr 2007: Name listed as ROSCOE L BROWNE Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index. Other websites and census data also confirm 1922, as well as a YouTube video in which the actor gives 1922 as his year of birth. However, obituaries in the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, as well as his profile at IBDb, cite 1925.
Nash, Margo. "Jersey Footlights", The New York Times, November 14, 2004. Accessed September 6, 2009. "Roscoe Lee Browne has acted in many movies, from Cool Hand Luke to The Matrix.... And, by the way, he 'made a good shepherd' in the French class play at Woodbury High School, according to the Woodbury High yearbook in 1939, the year Mr. Brown graduated."
Browne's year of birth was cited as 1925 through much of his career and at the time of his death. Since then evidence has emerged that he was actually born three years earlier, the most notable of which would be the Social Security Death Index: Roscoe Lee Browne [Roscoe L Browne] Gender: Male Race: Black Birth Date: 2 May 1922 Birth Place: Woodbury, New Jersey Father Name: Sylvanus Browne Mother Name: Louie [sic] L Usher Death Date: 11 Apr 2007 Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Jul 1940: Name listed as ROSCOE LEE BROWNE; 21 Apr 2007: Name listed as ROSCOE L BROWNE Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index. Other websites and census data also confirm 1922, as well as a YouTube video in which the actor gives 1922 as his year of birth. However, obituaries in the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, as well as his profile at IBDb, cite 1925.
Browne's year of birth was cited as 1925 through much of his career and at the time of his death. Since then evidence has emerged that he was actually born three years earlier, the most notable of which would be the Social Security Death Index: Roscoe Lee Browne [Roscoe L Browne] Gender: Male Race: Black Birth Date: 2 May 1922 Birth Place: Woodbury, New Jersey Father Name: Sylvanus Browne Mother Name: Louie [sic] L Usher Death Date: 11 Apr 2007 Type of Claim: Original SSN. Notes: Jul 1940: Name listed as ROSCOE LEE BROWNE; 21 Apr 2007: Name listed as ROSCOE L BROWNE Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index. Other websites and census data also confirm 1922, as well as a YouTube video in which the actor gives 1922 as his year of birth. However, obituaries in the New York Times, The Guardian and the Los Angeles Times, as well as his profile at IBDb, cite 1925.
