Lucius Brooks

{{Short description|American musician and actor}}

Lucius "Dusty" Holcey Brooks was a musician, recording artist, and actor in American films. An African American, he portrayed a comedic sidekick in several Western films with African American casts.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m_yyCwAAQBAJ&q=%22lucius+brooks%22&pg=PA151|title=American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture|first=Julia|last=Leyda|date=February 29, 2016|publisher=transcript Verlag|isbn=9783839434550|via=Google Books}} He performed as part of the Four Tones in several films.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2ClDwAAQBAJ&q=rudolph+hunter+four+tones&pg=PT231|title=African-American Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Gospel and Zydeco on Film and Video, 1924-1997|first=Paul|last=Vernon|date=July 23, 2019|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780429809750|via=Google Books}} He also recorded numerous songs with the Four Tones.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L4ghJfL5iBIC&q=dusty+brooks+and+the+four+tones&pg=PA272|title=Encyclopedia of Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop Vocal Groups|first=Mitch|last=Rosalsky|date=May 1, 2002|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810845923|via=Google Books}}

In 1949, he recorded on Kangaroo Records.{{Cite web|url=http://www.globaldogproductions.info/k/kangaroo.html|title=Discography for Kangaroo Records|website=www.globaldogproductions.info}}

He was a memberof the American Federation of Musicians.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqtZAAAAYAAJ&q=Lucius+Holcey+Brooks|title=Reports of Officers to the Annual Convention|last1=Musicians|first1=American Federation of}}