Information on his survivors was not immediately available. Sinahon, who is from the Philippines, wed in Baltimore in 1998. Kotto was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents. His mother was of Panamanian and West Indian descent. His father was Cameroonian royalty, The Baltimore Sun reported. 15, 1939, in Harlem and grew up in the Bronx.
“There is an aspect of Black people’s lives that is not running or jumping.” “I want to try to play a much more sensitive man. Kotto, who stood 6-foot-3, told The Baltimore Sun that such roles presented a distorted image of what he was really like. 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.
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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 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 often played police officers, criminals and other hardened personalities onscreen.
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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.” No other details were immediately available.
His wife, Thessa Sinahon, announced it in a Facebook post. His death was confirmed on Tuesday by his agent, Ryan Goldhar. Married three times and father to six children, Kotto claimed to be related to Queen Elizabeth II-naming his 1997 biography “The Royalty” as a tribute to his royal pedigree.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 returned to the “Alien” franchise in 2014, voicing his character Parker in the survival horror video game “Alien: Isolation”. Kotto’s later years saw him play Lieutenant Al Giardello in the gritty TV police procedural “Homicide: Life on the Street”. He then took on a villainous xenomorph as ship engineer Dennis Parker in Ridley Scott’s claustrophobic sci-fi horror film “Alien” in 1979, and fought alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987’s dystopian thriller “Running Man”.Īt the height of his fame, he turned down the role of Captain Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”-a decision he later said he regretted. Kananga-in 1973’s “Live and Let Die”, and an Emmy nomination for playing real-life Ugandan strongman Idi Amin in the TV movie “Raid on Entebbe”. Kotto drew plaudits for roles as the first Black Bond villain-dictator Dr. “I am still processing his passing, and I know he will be missed,” he said.īorn in New York to a Cameroonian immigrant father and a US Army nurse, Kotto’s debut as a professional actor was in an all-Black stage performance of Shakespeare’s “Othello” in Harlem in 1960. Agent Ryan Goldhar confirmed his passing in an email to AFP. “You played a villain on some of your movies but for me you’re a real hero and to a lot of people also,” she said. In a statement Monday on Facebook, wife Sinahon Thessa described her late husband as a “legend”. Actor Yaphet Kotto, who rose to fame in the 1970s fighting James Bond in “Live and Let Die” and an extraterrestrial stowaway in “Alien”, has died, his agent told AFP.
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