• Name: Louis Gossett Jr
  • Date of Birth: May 27, 1936
  • Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Mini-bio: Louis Gossett Jr started acting at the age of 17, in theater. He attended NYU for college on a basketball scholarship, and though he considered pursuing professional basketball as a career, he turned ...( read more)to theater instead with a role in the broadway production of "A Raisin in the Sun".
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  • hncckbll
    Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar winner as "Gunnery Sgt. Foley, USMC" in "An Officer And A Gentleman" is one of best African-American actors in film today. Also the star of the high-flying "Iron Eagle" films, he shows he can do the military action-adventure with the best of them.
    posted 588 days ago

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