<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Actor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2005--2015 </Td> </Tr> <P> Windell Dwain Middlebrooks, Jr . (January 8, 1979--March 9, 2015) was an American actor and singer . He was most well known for his role in The Suite Life on Deck as Kirby Morris, a security guard on the cruise ship . He also starred in Body of Proof and Ace in the Hole . </P> <P> Middlebrooks was born in Fort Worth, Texas He was an alumnus of Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Theatre / Communications, the Los Angeles Film Studies Center, and University of California, Irvine, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting in 2004 . </P>

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