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| General info : | | Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942, New Rochelle, New York, U.S.) is an American actor and former model.
Roundtree is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019.
For his performance in the original film, Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972. | |
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| General info : | Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942, New Rochelle, New York, U.S.) is an American actor and former model.
Roundtree is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019.
For his performance in the original film, Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972. | Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942, New Rochelle, New York, U.S. - died October 24, 2023, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (aged 81)) was an American actor and former model.
Roundtree is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019.
For his performance in the original film, Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972.
Roundtree was married and divorced twice and had five children. He married Mary Jane Grant in 1963;[2] the couple had two children before divorcing in 1973. He dated actress and TV personality Cathy Lee Crosby shortly thereafter. Roundtree later married Karen M. Ciernia in 1980; they had three children together before divorcing in 1998.
In 1993, Roundtree was diagnosed with breast cancer, and subsequently underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy.
He died from pancreatic cancer on October 24 2023, at the age of 81. | |
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| Video | | ‘Shaft’ actor Richard Roundtree dies at 81 | |