Yaphet Kotto Passes Away

[Bobby Barrows]

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Yaphet Kotto, an imposing actor who descended from African royalty and was known for playing tough characters in a roster of films like “Alien” and “Midnight Run,” died on Monday near Manila in the Philippines. He was 81.

His death was confirmed on Tuesday by his agent, Ryan Goldhar. His wife, Thessa Sinahon, announced it in a Facebook post. No other details were immediately available.
Mr. Kotto, who said he came from Cameroonian royalty on his father’s side, began studying acting at 16 at the Actors Mobile Theater Studio, according to Variety, and by 19 he had made his professional theater debut in “Othello.”
He often played police officers, criminals and other hardened personalities onscreen. He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of President Idi Amin, the murderous Ugandan strongman, in the 1976 television movie “Raid on Entebbe.”

He also starred as a police lieutenant in the 1990s-era TV hit “Homicide: Life on the Street,” an ex-convict in the 1978 film “Blue Collar” and a prison guard in “Brubaker,” a 1980 movie about a prison farm also starring Robert Redford.

He even played a pair of Bond villains in the 1973 film “Live and Let Die”: both a corrupt Caribbean dictator and that character’s alter ago, a drug trafficker named Mr. Big.

Nooooooo!

What the fuck, man.

 

[Chris]

Damn, RIP. Loved him in Alien

 

[Apoho Creed]

Yeah he was great in Alien and reading that Article I think I should check out more of his Acting Roles.

 

[Deezy]

Learned he could've been Lando Calrissian.

 

[Lady Redfield]

Doc from Freddy’s Dead

RIP

 

[Keith]

RIP. A really disverse and talented character actor. Was great in everything. No doubt a important figure in American cinema too. I would like to check out his TV work for David Simon too.

 

[Marty McFourth]

I know I'm late to this thread, but I was very torn up at this news. He was in a lot of movies I liked, and was always a reliable actor.

I loved him in Freddy's Dead and Running Man the most. RIP big guy.