Yaphet Frederick Kotto (November 15, 1939 – March 15, 2021) was an American actor for film and television. He starred in the NBC television series Homicide:...
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Yaphet Kotto was a hardcore punk band, named after the actor, from Santa Cruz, California active between 1996 and 2005. The band Yaphet Kotto formed after...
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Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill through...
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written by George Gallo, and starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, and Philip Baker Hall play...
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cast with Gloria Hendry. Yaphet Kotto was cast while doing another movie for United Artists, Across 110th Street (1972). Kotto reported one of the things...
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starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura. The film is set in a dystopian United States between...
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Crosetti (Jon Polito), as well as the Commander, Lieutenant Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto). The third season saw the first changes in the character lineup; when...
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failure, grossing $4.1 million. It was the final film appearance of Yaphet Kotto before his retirement later that year from acting, and his death in 2021...
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alluded to in Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. Dennis Monroe Parker (Yaphet Kotto) is the Nostromo's chief engineer; Brett is his assistant. On the ship...
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debut. It stars Yaphet Kotto, Joyce Van Patten, and Andrew Duggan. The film tells the story of a home invasion perpetrated by Kotto's character, who soon...
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film directed by Arthur Marks and starring Pam Grier in the title role. Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers and Carl Weathers co-starred. It is an...
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Kotto may refer to: Maka Kotto (born 1961), Canadian politician and actor Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021), American actor Basse-Kotto (Lower Kotto), a prefecture...
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American action film directed by Richard C. Sarafian, and stars Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Denise Galik, Seymour Cassel, William Smith, and Judith Barsi. Busey...
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directed by Hal Barwood and starring Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Richard Dysart. In a secret military laboratory...
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his brother Leonard, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of...
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American crime thriller film starring Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook,1 Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking, and Joe Regalbuto. The film was written...
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blaxploitation film written by Odie Hawkins and Charles Eric Johnson. It stars Yaphet Kotto as Chicago con-man and "hustler" Daddy Foxx and Kirk Calloway as his...
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Teague. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto, David Rasche, Lewis Van Bergen, Earle Hyman, and Ted Ross. The film...
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debut) from a screenplay by Michael De Luca, the film stars Lisa Zane, Yaphet Kotto, Breckin Meyer, Shon Greenblatt, Ricky Dean Logan, Lezlie Deane, Tobe...
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Bullet, is a 1974 American blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael...
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soundtrack and film of the same name that starred Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto. The single was released in February 1973 on the United Artists label...
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American neo noir action thriller film directed by Barry Shear and starring Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Franciosa and Paul Benjamin. The film is set...
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Badge of the Assassin is a 1985 television film starring James Woods, Yaphet Kotto and Alex Rocco. It was directed by Mel Damski. The film first aired on...
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1968) 1939 – Terry Bradbury, English footballer and manager 1939 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2021) 1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde...
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Othello. An all black cast and crew, including actor Yaphet Kotto, created the film. Yaphet Kotto as Othello Benjamin Ashburn as Montano Olive Bowles as...
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prison scandal. The film features a large supporting cast, including Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire, Matt Clark...
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although low-budget independent films of the play starring Ted Lange and Yaphet Kotto predated it. Othello, a Moor who has married a young Venetian gentlewoman...
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Sobel, and starring Patrick Labyorteaux, Paul L. Smith, Edward Albert, Yaphet Kotto, and Kabir Bedi. The film begins with Lady Electric and Bob. After being...
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role. The other actors considered included Yaphet Kotto, Patrick Bauchau, Roy Thinnes and Mitchell Ryan. Kotto turned down the role as he was concerned...
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Coleman (in his first dramatic role), Cicely Tyson, Ron O'Neal, and Yaphet Kotto. It premiered April 14, 1985, on NBC. As his parents break up and his...
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