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Post by Lord Death Man on Mar 29, 2024 15:11:33 GMT 1
Louis Gossett Jr., Star of ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots,’ Dies at 87 The Brooklyn native also appeared in the original Broadway production of 'A Raisin in the Sun' and wrote a song with folk legend Richie Havens. RIP Louis Gossett Jr.
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Post by Merv on Mar 29, 2024 16:30:09 GMT 1
Louis Gossett Jr., Star of ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots,’ Dies at 87 The Brooklyn native also appeared in the original Broadway production of 'A Raisin in the Sun' and wrote a song with folk legend Richie Havens. RIP Louis Gossett Jr. A stellar career and a great. I’d like to mention my personal favorite LGJr flick, a boxing/crime film called Diggstown.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 29, 2024 16:55:05 GMT 1
RIP. "Roots" "Iron Eagle 1, 2, 3, and 4" "Enemy Mine" "Diggstown" "An Officer and a Gentleman" "The Punisher" "Return to Lonesome Dove" "Stargate SG-1" "Skin Game" "The Powers of Matthew Star" "Jaws 3-D" "Firewalkers" and many more.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Mar 29, 2024 20:39:29 GMT 1
RIP. "Roots" "Iron Eagle 1, 2, 3, and 4" "Enemy Mine" "Diggstown" "An Officer and a Gentleman" "The Punisher" "Return to Lonesome Dove" "Stargate SG-1" "Skin Game" "The Powers of Matthew Star" "Jaws 3-D" "Firewalkers" and many more. Wait a second… Enemy Mine? That was Louis Gossett Jr.!? 🤯
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 29, 2024 21:56:17 GMT 1
RIP. "Roots" "Iron Eagle 1, 2, 3, and 4" "Enemy Mine" "Diggstown" "An Officer and a Gentleman" "The Punisher" "Return to Lonesome Dove" "Stargate SG-1" "Skin Game" "The Powers of Matthew Star" "Jaws 3-D" "Firewalkers" and many more. Wait a second… Enemy Mine? That was Louis Gossett Jr.!? 🤯Yup
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Post by primemcgee on Mar 29, 2024 22:15:24 GMT 1
The Officer and a Gentleman got a lot of attention in the 80s. The "drill sergeant" --Adolph Caesar also did one of those--and then Lee Ermey (who did it in The Boys of Company C 1978 but that was memory-holed). Gossett Jr benefited a lot more than Haing S Ngor did from an Oscar--poor guy--they used his Oscar for a joke on the Simpsons. LG Jr shows up in some early 70s tv--I think he was on Petrocelli--it is bewildering to see him with hair though. As with Yul Brynner--you see him with hair in something and you think "no, this is wrong."
Also, LG Jr was rather prominent and then Morgan Freeman and "Denzel" replaced him.
Freeman had been around for a long time before he got much attention. He was on the Electric Company reading Spider-man stories.
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Post by Indiana Jones on Mar 30, 2024 1:06:50 GMT 1
R.I.P.
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