Radio and club DJ Mister Cee, real name Calvin LeBrun, has died, according to a statement released by New York radio station Hot 97. He was 57. No cause or location was given.
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Louis Gossett Jr., who won an Emmy for his role in the groundbreaking TV miniseries Roots and an Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman, died last night in Santa Monica. He was 87.
His death was reported by his nephew to the Associated Press. No cause of death was given.
The first Black actor to win a Best Supporting Oscar, Gossett was born May 27, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, Gossett made his stage debut at 17 in a school production of You Can’t Take It with You. He’d soon successfully audition for the Broadway production Take a Giant Step, then perform in a star-making supporting role in the hit A Raisin in the Sun (1959). He’d reprise his Raisin role of George Murchison, the college suitor of the play’s rebellious Beneatha.
Charting duel careers in music and acting, Gossett was a regular at the folk music clubs of New York City in the ’60s while continuing a busy Broadway and Off Broadway career, notably in the long-running Jean Genet’s The Blacks along with James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Cicely Tyson, and others.
Other stage credits from the era include the Broadway play Tambourines to Glory, Golden Boy, The Zulu and the Zayda, and My Sweet Charlie, among others.
Gossett’s TV career began in earnest with late 1960s appearances in such series as The Invaders and Daktari, with early ’70s appearances continuing in Bonanza, Longstreet, The Mod Squad and Good Times.
But his major, signature TV role arrived in 1977 when he played the character Fiddler in the much-praised and hugely influential Roots. He won an Emmy for the performance, cementing a TV career that would continue all but uninterrupted through 2019 when he had a regular role on Watchmen.
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Radio and club DJ Mister Cee, real name Calvin LeBrun, has died, according to a statement released by New York radio station Hot 97. He was 57. No cause or location was given.
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Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, has died at the age of 87.The actor made history by picking up the award for his role as the drill instructor Sgt. Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer And A Gentlemen.Gossett died at a rehabilitation centre in Santa Monica, California today (March 29), as reported by the Associated Press.“It is with our heartfelt regret to confirm our beloved father passed away this morning,” his family said in a statement.
Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr. has sadly passed away.
2023 remake of “The Color Purple.”Gossett struggled with alcohol and cocaine addiction for years after his Oscar win. He went to rehab, where he was diagnosed with toxic mold syndrome, which he attributed to his house in Malibu.In 2010, Gossett announced he had prostate cancer, which he said was caught in the early stages.
Ethan Shanfeld Louis Gossett Jr., who won a supporting actor Oscar for playing the hard-as-nails drill instructor in 1982’s “An Officer and a Gentleman” a few years after winning an Emmy for his role as the cunning Fiddler in “Roots,” has died, the AP reports. He was 87.
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