Roscoe Lee Browne, 84, a versatile film, television and stage actor who excelled at conveying suave, sometimes devious authority figures and spent decades giving staged readings of modern and ...

Roscoe Lee Browne, who won an Emmy in 1986 for his appearances as Dr. Barnabus Foster on "The Bill Cosby Show," died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 81.