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1944–

Actor

Roscoe Orman is best known to most Americans as Gordon on the Sesame Street children's television program, a fixture of the Public Broadcasting System television network since the mid-1970s.

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With his shaved head, Orman seemed an almost ageless presence among the truly ageless Muppets in the show's regular cast. The seeming simplicity of Orman's Sesame Street performances was grounded in solid theatrical training; he began his working life as a stage actor and continued to expand his range as his career developed, having been freed from financial constraints by his success as a beloved icon of children's television.

Born on June 11, 1944, Roscoe Orman was a native of the New York City borough of the Bronx.

Orman heard of the wonders of a theatrical life from his maternal grandfather, Hunter Wells, who had worked as a vaudeville performer and who entertained the family with tales of the stage. Orman took any chance he could to appear in plays and