Booker T. Bradshaw (May 21, 1940[1]– April 1, 2003) was an American record producer, film and TV actor, and Motown executive.
[3] Bradshaw, disillusioned and working at his father's life insurance company, went on to study at Harvard to earn a degree in English.
In 1961, while a junior at Harvard, he applied his singing talents on The Original Amateur Hour television show with Ted Mack as a singer of folk songs, becoming a three-time winner, and participated in the national finals at Madison Square Garden.
Bradshaw then went on to play at Carnegie Hall, and in the early sixties he was given a full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.
He ventured back to acting with John Ferald, school principal of The Royal Academy at the time, doing repertory work at Oakland University outside of Detroit.