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Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto
Born: Nov 15, 1937 in New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '70s-'90s
Major Genres: Drama
Career Highlights: Across 110th Street, Truck Turner, Alien
First Major Screen Credit: The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
26 Videos for Yaphet Kotto
Witless Protection (2008) Intent to Kill (1992) The Star Chamber (1983)
Homicide: The Movie (2000) Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) Alien (1979)
Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 07 (1999) Ministry of Vengeance (1989) Report to the Commissioner (1974)
Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 05 (1997) The Jigsaw Murders (1989) Truck Turner (1974)
Two If by Sea (1996) Midnight Run (1988) Live and Let Die (1973)
Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 03 (1995) The Running Man (1987) Man and Boy (1971)
Out of Sync (1994) Eye of the Tiger (1986) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Almost Blue (1993) Badge of the Assassin (1985) Nothing But a Man (1964)
Extreme Justice (1993) Warning Sign (1985)
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Biography:

African American actor Yaphet Kotto was one of the most prominent beneficiaries of the upsurge in black-oriented theatrical pieces of the late 1950s; he appeared in many prestigious Broadway and off-Broadway productions, taking regional theatre work rather than accept stereotypical mainstream roles in movies and TV.

Kotto's first film was Nothing But a Man (1964), an independently produced study of black pride in the face of white indifference. Though he vehemently steered clear of most of the '70s blaxploitation fare, in 1972, Kotto produced, directed and wrote the feature film Speed Limit 65 (aka The Limit and Time Limit), a one-of-a-kind black biker film.

The biggest production with which Kotto was associated in the early 1970s was the James Bond film Live and Let Die, in which, as the villainous Mr. Big, he was blown up in the final scene (a similarly grisly fate awaited Kotto in 1979's Alien). On television, Yaphet Kotto was a regular on the TV series For Love and Honor (1983) and Homicide: Life on the Streets (1992), and was seen as Ugandan president Idi Amin in the 1977 TV movie Raid on Entebbe.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.