Actor and Director Thomas Martell Brimm Has Died

Actor and director Thomas Martell Brimm has died of kidney failure in Los Angeles, according to a report in Variety. He was 75.

As an actor, Brimm appeared on Broadway in the 1985 revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh. He also worked with Joseph Papp, and toured internationally with the Negro Ensemble Company. Among his many stage credits are Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, When the Chickens Come Home to Roost, Mother Courage and Her Children, Coriolanus, Dividing the Estate, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Brimm served as artistic director for the American Drama Group Europe, directing American classics in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and the Virgin Islands. During the course of his career, he also founded Theater of the Streets in New York, and the performing arts academy A Gentle Force, in California.

Among his television credits are A Simple Justice, The Temptations, Johnny Bull, and Second Chances.

He is survived by a son, a granddaughter, five brothers, four sisters and a large extended family.