A nightclub promoter and performer, his early best role was as a regular cast member of the television series Laugh-in.

Brown is mostly remembered for his portly physique, beautiful smile, mobile facial expressions, and easy, pleasant joking style.

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.

[2] He collapsed shortly after leaving a doctor's appointment for his pacemaker and was pronounced dead after arriving at a hospital.