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Louis Gossett Jr. is a Hollywood great and has been considered one of the most talented actors. On Friday, March 29th, the sad news of his passing at the age of 87, due to prostate cancer, was ...
Oscar Winner Louis Gossett Jr.'s Top 5. Across his decades-long career, Louis Gossett Jr. starred in seminal projects like A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Roots (1977), and An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He was the first Black man to do so.
Jan 31, 2020 · 6. On July 18, 2016, Louis Gossett Jr. co-hosted as a guest programmer on Turner Classic Movies’ primetime lineup. Allowed to choose four movies to air, he selected Blackboard Jungle, Lifeboat, Touch of Evil and The Night of the Hunter. Check out Louis Gossett Jr.’s career compared to current and classic actors.
Mar 29, 2024 · FILE - Louis Gossett Jr., poses with the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in “An Officer and a Gentleman,” at the annual Academy Awards presentation in Los Angeles on April 11, 1983. Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died.
Mar 30, 2024 · Gossett, who died on March 29 at the age of 87, was a great actor who imposed his presence; just watch the ferocious way he plays an alien soldier, under a mask of beaded make-up, in “Enemy Mine ...
May 10, 1987 · A Gathering of Old Men: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Joe Seneca. A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense.
Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87. “Chappppy!!!!”. Exactly this. Iron Eagle made me feel alive as a kid. i get razzed for loving that movie but I feel no shame.
