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Actor Georg Stanford Brown, who was born in Cuba, became the first black director to win an Emmy for his work on the 1986 "Cagney & Lacey" episode titled "Parting Shots." Brown won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for the 1985-1986 season.

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