Robert Curtis Brown (born 27 April 1957; age 68) is an actor who played Sorad in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episode "Sanctuary", credited as Robert Curtis-Brown, and the Ledosian ambassador in the Star Trek: Voyager seventh season episode "Natural Law".
Work in the 1980s[]
Brown made his acting debut in the 1982 telefilm Pilgrim, Farewell (with Christopher Lloyd, but Brown got in on the box office success of his feature film debut in Trading Places (1983, starring Eddie Murphy, with Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Cobbs, Nicholas Guest and Ron Taylor). Also in 1983 was First Affair (with Robin Curtis and Charley Lang). Brown was seen next in Legal Eagles (1986, with David Clennon and Bruce French.
Work in the 1990s[]
Brown entered the decade in Children of the Bride (1990, with Conor O'Farrell). Brown got to work with fellow Voyager guest actors Robert Joy and Keith Szarabajka in Hyde in Hollywood (1991). Brown kept up the TV movie trend in 1992's Just My Imagination (with Cristine Rose) as well as Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993, with Bill Smitrovich). In 1995, Brown made his first film appearance in Stuart Saves His Family (with Harris Yulin, Michael G. Hagerty, Aaron Lustig, Dakin Matthews, Camille Saviola, Denver Mattson, Richard Riehle, Jeremy Roberts, Kevin Michael Richardson and Michelle Horn). Then it was back to TV movies in the 1995 biopic, Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story (with John de Lancie, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Joel Polis). That same year, Brown worked with Michael Ensign in The Christmas Box. Brown received a role in Same River Twice (1996, with John Putch and Kevin Rahm). In 1996, Brown was seen in Full Circle, featuring Corbin Bernsen, Nicholas Coster, Mark Kiely and James Read, and Rolling Thunder (with Yvonne Suhor and Cress Williams). In 1996, Brown workied again with Daniel Hugh Kelly in Stranger in My Home, also co-starring Leigh Taylor-Young. Brown again worked with Harris Yulin in Bean (with David Doty, Danny Goldring, Peter Capaldi and April Grace). The only film work Brown had in 1998 was another telefilm, A Wing and a Prayer (with Jim Metzler and Leon Russom). 1999 saw Brown in Three Secrets (with Katy Boyer and Jason Brooks). Brown ended the year and the '90s working again with Nicholas Coster in Love Happens (with Ryan Bollman and Vince Grant).
Work in the 2000s[]
In the 21st century Brown appeared in the television movie Unauthorized Brady Bunch: The Final Days (2000, with Lisa Wilcox, David Selburg and Antony Acker) and Zenon: The Zequel (2001, directed by Manny Coto). He also appeared in Red Dragon (2002, with David Doty, John Billingsley, Michael Cavanaugh, Elizabeth Dennehy, Frank Langella, Mark Moses, John Rubinstein and Brenda Strong), Catch Me If You Can (2002, starring Tom Hanks, featuring Lilyan Chauvin, Thomas Kopache, J. Patrick McCormack, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Robert Symonds and Malachi Throne), Bruce Almighty (2003, with Michael Bofshever, Christopher Darga, Colby French, Max Grodénchik, Mark Kiely and Annie Wersching), After the Sunset (2004, with Mark Moses and Rachael Harris), Dreamgirls (2006, starring Beyoncé and Eddie Murphy, with Ivar Brogger, Dawnn Lewis, Daniel Riordan and Vince Grant), Pandemic (2007, with Bob Gunton and Clyde Kusatsu), Drive Thru (2007, with Gordon Clapp and Clyde Kusatsu), Spider-Man 3 (2007, starring Kirsten Dunst, with Paul Terrell Clayton, James Cromwell, Gregg Daniel), and Who's Your Caddy? (2007, with James Avery). High School Musical 2 (2007, with Mark L. Taylor). Brown later appeared in The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009, with Glenn Morshower and Stephen Root).
Work in the 2010s[]
Brown kept his television movie career going in Healing Hands (2010, with Deborah Van Valkenburgh) and Audrey (2014 film)|Audrey}} (2014, with Ethan Phillips), and in Cinema Verite (with Thomas Dekker and Dendrie Taylor).
He also appeared in an episode of Raven's Home.
Television guest appearances[]
- Newhart (1989, with Tony Papenfuss)
- Veronica Clare (1991, with Paddi Edwards and Patrick Kilpatrick)
- Herman's Head (1992, starring Molly Hagan, with Christopher Darga and David Gautreaux)
- Love & War (starring Suzie Plakson, with Michael Nouri)
- Melrose Place (1992, with Jeff Allin)
- L.A. Law (1993, starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake, with Samantha Eggar, Steven Flynn, Lawrence Tierney and Tom Wright)
- Knots Landing (1993, starring Michelle Phillips)
- Sisters (starring Ashley Judd, with John Schuck)
- Duckman (1995, starring Jason Alexander)
- Sliders (1995, co-created by Tracy Tormé and starring Jerry O'Connell and John Rhys-Davies)
- Wings (1996, starring Steven Weber)
- Dream On (1996, starring Chris Demetral and Wendie Malick, with Dawnn Lewis, Stephanie Erb, Neil C. Vipond and Matthew Faison),
- Life with Roger (1997, starring Hallie Todd)
- Mad About You (1997, starring Anne Elizabeth Ramsay, with Peter White)
- From the Earth to the Moon episode "Can We Do This?" (1998, with David Andrews, Brett Cullen, Daniel Hugh Kelly, John Carroll Lynch, Conor O'Farell, Mark Rolston and Stephen Root)
- The Pretender (1998, starring Harve Presnell, with Keene Curtis)
- Malcolm & Eddie (1998, with Tucker Smallwood)
- Snoops (1999, with Casey Biggs)
- Diagnosis: Murder (1999, with Susan Gibney)
- Ally McBeal (starring Gina Philips, with Renee E. Goldsberry)
- 7th Heaven (2001, starring Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks)
- The West Wing (2001, with Timothy Davis-Reed, Jacqueline Kim and Scott Lawrence)
- Crossing Jordan (2002, starring Miguel Ferrer, with Paul Winfield, Steven Culp and Tom McCleister)
- The Guardian (2002, starring Raphael Sbarge, with James Ingersoll)
- Judging Amy (2002, starring Kevin Rahm, with Christopher Liam Moore)
- American Dreams (2002, starring Virginia Madsen, with Stephanie Erb, Paul Wesley and Ethan Dampf)
- Without a Trace (2003, starring Enrique Murciano and Eric Close, with Daniel Zacapa)
- CSI: Miami (2004, with Vyto Ruginis and David Lee Smith)
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2004, starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham, with Amy Benedict and Dina Meyer)
- Medical Investigation (2005, starring Neal McDonough and Christopher Gorham, with Susanna Thompson and Larissa Laskin)
- Cold Case (2005, produced by Roxann Dawson)
- Night Stalker (2005, starring Gabrielle Union)
- Las Vegas (2005, starring Nikki Cox, with Michael Canavan and Joel McKinnon Miller)
- Criminal Minds (2006, with Chad Allen and Geoff Meed)
- Medium (2007, starring Jake Weber, executive-produced by Kelsey Grammer)
- Supernatural episode "Sin City" (2007, with Jim Beaver)
- Cavemen (2007, with Ethan Philips)
- Lincoln Heights (2008, starring Michael Reilly Burke, with Natalia Nogulich and Tony Amendola)
- Castle (2009, with Anne Elizabeth Ramsay and Clayton Rohner)
- CSI: NY (2010)
- NCIS (2010, with Abby Brammell)
- Big Time Rush (2010, with Ed Begley, Jr.)