Brown made appearances on
The Leslie Uggams Show,
Julia,
The Flip Wilson Show,
Punky Brewster,
The Jeffersons,
The Rookies,
Family Matters,
Sister, Sister,
The Jamie Foxx Show,
The Wayans Bros, and
Martin. He had a recurring role as building super Nathan Bookman in the 1970's TV series
Good Times. He had a small role in the 1970 film
The Out-of-Towners starring
Jack Lemmon and
Sandy Dennis as a waiter on a railroad dining car. Brown went to school with
Walter Dean Myers when he lived in
Harlem,
New York City as a boy. He appeared in several television commercials, including ads for
Hunt's Manwich and the Write Brothers pen, a short-lived product of the
Papermate pen company in the 1970s. The commercial consisted of an elaborate musical number, "Write On, Brothers, Write On", led by Brown as a schoolteacher who encourages his chorus line of students to use this pen for their school assignments. Brown also appeared in a TWA commercial as skycap “Bud Jones”. In 1997, Brown contributed his voice to the introduction of the compilation album
Comedy Stew: The Best of Redd Foxx. In the introduction, Brown tells of how
Norman Lear had considered Brown to play the role of Lamont in
Sanford and Son, but was unavailable to do so because of his prior commitment to
Laugh-In, leading Lear to give the role to
Demond Wilson instead. He also had a one-off role as "Fat-Man" in the original
The Ghost Busters television show. In 1998, he appeared in Season 4 of
Touched by an Angel as a dying comedian in "Cry and you Cry Alone". In 1999, Brown appeared on two episodes of the Nickelodeon children's sitcom
Kenan & Kel. He played Wallace "Suitcase" Jefferson in the 2004 mockumentary
The Old Negro Space Program. ==Death==