Brock Peters
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"Brock Peters" was an American actor, best known for playing the role of Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird (film)/To Kill a Mockingbird. He also gained recognition among Star Trek fans for his portrayals of Fleet Admiral Cartwright in two of the Star Trek feature films and List of recurring characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine#Joseph Sisko/Joseph Sisko, father of Benjamin Sisko, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and for his role as Hatcher in Soylent Green.

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We spent two weeks that I call two weeks of tears--my veil of tears.

I worked over the years in many, many productions, but no-one ever again called me to welcome me aboard, except perhaps the director and the producer, but not my fellow actor-to-be.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love. Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure.

[He initially clashed with the autocratic director.] One day he chewed me out in front of a lot of people, ... I lost my temper and I went for him. Later I discovered he was a charming social personality and very warm, and I was surprised to learn that he was a life member of the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).

Producers didn't want to see me. They had liked my performances but couldn't see me as anything but a heavy.

[Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century, Mockingbird won three Oscars, including one for star Gregory Peck , who died in 2003. And it was Peters who read the eulogy at Peck's funeral.] In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love, ... Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in .

I have been here a long time, and I have seen this cycle happen before. I'll wait awhile and see if this flurry of activity leads to anything permanent.