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Actor: Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto played Kananga in Live and Let Die, one of the few Black Bond villains, and Parker in Alien, an engineer whose complaints about pay are the most realistic dialogue in the film.

Blue Collar, for Paul Schrader, is the best performance, playing an auto worker in a film about how unions and management both fail the same people.

Midnight Run and The Running Man gave him authority figures, and Homicide: Life on the Street gave him a long television lead.

He claimed descent from Cameroonian royalty, converted to Judaism, and had an unusually independent career for the period.

Live and Let Die (1973) film poster

Geoffrey Holder

Live and Let Die (1973)

1973 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Roger Moore's debut. Voodoo, blaxploitation tropes, Jane Seymour as Solitaire.

Brubaker (1980) film poster

Brubaker (1980)

Rosenberg's 1980 prison-reform drama. Robert Redford as the warden who arrives undercover as an inmate.

Midnight Run (1988) film poster

Midnight Run (1988) Review

Midnight Run is one of the great American films of the 1980s and one of the most substantially underrated buddy action comedies in commercial cinema histo. Martin Brest had directed Going in Style in 1979 and Beverly Hills Cop in…

Alien (1979) film poster

Harry Dean Stanton

Alien (1979) Review

Experiencing it blind, in a dark theater, with an audience that had no idea what was coming, that was specific and unrepeatable. The 8 reflects both what the film achieved and what watching it now is like, which are different…

The Running Man (1987) film poster

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Running Man (1987) Review

The Running Man is a better idea than film. The concept, a death sport television show operating as the primary mechanism of social control in a dystopia.