Andre Braugher - B99

stickyfiddle

Star of Brooklyn 99 and Homicide, among others. Died "after a brief illness" at 61. I'm a bit heartbroken 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67700088 

fretmeister

Gutted. 

nocasternoproblem

A fantastic actor in both B99 and Homicide, one of those you think lifted the performance of everyone acting in the same scene.   Very sad loss.  

lustycourtier

Gutted. A wonderful human. 

Kebabkid

Saddened by this and what a different and refreshing character he was in B99.
Far too young and he emanated kindness.
RIP

bobacco

Ah this fucking sucks. Fine actor and is just started rewatching B99.

monkey42

RIP. He was brilliant in B99 , too young an age to go

axisus

Sad news indeed, I love Brooklyn 99, such a great show and he was brilliant in it. One of the great, memorable characters in a TV show for me. It's such a great show if you just want to watch a bit of fun for a while, amazing cast.

I have to admit that without really thinking about it I always assumed that he was gay, but he was married with 3 sons. 

Philly_Q

Homicide: Life on the Street was far and away my favourite TV series back in the mid-'90s.  I bought the whole thing on DVD - which I hardly ever do with TV shows - after Channel 4 messed about and kept moving it around the schedules.  I'm not sure if they even showed the final season.

And Andre Braugher's Frank Pembleton was my favourite character, in fact he's one of my favourite fictional characters ever.

I can't get over how young he was, Pembleton seemed like he was at least in his mid-40s but he'd have been barely into his 30s.

RIP.

EricTheWeary

I didn't recognise the name but as a family with a corgi called Cheddar it's fair to say The Wearys are familiar with the programme and his excellent role as Captain Holt. 
Sad news, only 61,wow. RIP. 

monquixote

That came as a real shock.

B99 is one of my all time fav shows and he was brilliant in it.

Offset

H:LOTS was one of my fave cop shows too, and Frank one of my favourite characters.  He was a great actor and by all accounts was a really nice guy as well.  Andre had one of those faces you couldn't help but like; it was warm and open.

What a loss, and way too early.  RIP. 

stickyfiddle

skullfunkerry

stickyfiddle said:

Fucking hell. I'm not crying; you're crying.

Seriously though, I was very sad when I read this yesterday, it was a huge shock. In my Facebook memories yesterday, a video I'd previously shared of Captain Holt's best insults. His delivery was perfect, every time. Wonderful man

Mattharrier

B99 was a great show, and would have been good without Braugher. But he was the heart of the show, and elevated from a good comedy to a great show. The man's range was insane - from the default emotionless, logical robot, to the enraged, horny man screaming "BOOOOOOOOONNNNE!" to the Bingpot-exclaiming, enthusiastic participant in the Halloween Heists, and back to the calm, rational mastermind explaining exactly how he's outsmarted Jake yet again.

His work on Homicide was equally stellar, and while I can't really remember any details of that show (only that it was really, really good), he was (along with pretty much everyone else involved) bloody brilliant in it.

Moe_Zambeek

I vividly remember the scenes where Frank had the stroke in Homicide. That show, with its use of music and its fantastic cast, was incredible at the time. Probably the last show I made a point of watching. Andre was the cream of the cast and I always felt it was a bit unfair that he missed out on a bigger career after not really getting anywhere on the big screen.

Blaendulais

Has to be one of the greatest comic actors. Was absolutely brilliant.