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Oct 25, 2023 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several “Shaft” films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. He was 81. Roundtree’s longtime manager, Patrick McMinn, said the actor had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Richard Roundtree's Movies and TV Shows. Crack House. 1989. 1 hr 31 min. R. Action · Crime · Drama. The Banker. 1989. 1 hr 36 min. R. Crime · Thriller · Horror.
Nov 4, 2023 · 100. Shaft is the 1971 classic about a police detective by the name of John Shaft who finds himself toe-to-toe with black gangsters and nationalists, but then he ends up aligned with them as they ...
1:30 AM. Sat. S E0 TCM. In Richard Roundtree's first outing as supercool private-eye John Shaft (which he would play in two sequels and a short-lived CBS TV series), the sleuth is hired by a ...
Biography. Richard Roundtree shot to fame as the ultra-hip, flamboyantly-dressed -- not to mention charismatic-- private eye John Shaft. The film Shaft (1971) spawned a genre, two sequels and a series. It made Roundtree a household name, and, for a while, one of the hottest box-office stars in Hollywood. As New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby ...
Oct 26, 2023 · EBONYJune 2019 cover star Richard Roundtree. Stage and screen Richard Roundtree, who died on October 24 at age 81, starred in numerous movies and TV programs in his 60-year-plus acting career ...
