Yaphet Kotto
- Birthday
- Nov 15, 1937
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
Bio: African American actor Yaphet Kotto was one of the most prominent beneficiaries of the upsurge in black-oriented theatrical pieces of the late 1950s; he appeared in many prestigious Broadway and off-Broadway productions, taking regional theatre work rather than accept stereotypical "mainstream" roles in movies and TV. Kotto's first film was Nothing But a Man… More Bio: African American actor Yaphet Kotto was one of the most prominent beneficiaries of the upsurge in black-oriented theatrical pieces of the late 1950s; he appeared in many prestigious Broadway and off-Broadway productions, taking regional theatre work rather than accept stereotypical "mainstream" roles in movies and TV. Kotto's first film was Nothing But a Man (1964), an independently produced study of black pride in the face of white indifference. Though he vehemently steered clear of most of the '70s blaxploitation fare, in 1972, Kotto produced, directed and wrote the feature film Speed Limit 65 (aka The Limit and Time Limit), a one-of-a-kind "black biker" film. The biggest production with which Kotto was associated in the early 1970s was the James Bond film Live and Let Die, in which, as the villainous Mr. Big, he was blown up in the final scene (a similarly grisly fate awaited Kotto in 1979's Alien). On television, Yaphet Kotto was a regular on the TV series For Love and Honor (1983) and Homicide: Life on the Streets (1992), and was seen as Ugandan president Idi Amin in the 1977 TV movie Raid on Entebbe. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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Witless Protection (2008)
- Alonzo Moseley
- 3%
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Alien: The Director's Cut (2003)
- Actor
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The Ride (2000)
- Actor
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Homicide: The Movie (2000)
- Al "G" Giardello
- 100%
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Two if By Sea (1996)
- O'Malley
- 11%
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Yaphet Kotto Videos
Witless Protection
2 minutes 2 seconds
Midnight Run
2 minutes 3 seconds
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
2 minutes 10 seconds
Homicide
1 minutes 31 seconds
Out Of Sync
1 minutes 28 seconds
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