Favorite Black Actors in Movies Month

The movie required that you check your brain at the ticket booth before entering the theatre, but otherwise it’s just a lot of fun and mayhem

 

R.I.P

Clarence Williams III, ‘The Mod Squad’ and ‘Purple Rain’ Actor, Dead at 81



The actor's management confirmed his death to multiple outlets on Sunday, sharing he died on Friday in Los Angeles due to colon cancer.

The Harlem native began his career in theater and went on to earn a Tony nomination in 1965 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his work in Slow Dance on the Killing Ground. From 1968 to 1973, he starred as undercover cop Lincoln Hayes on the ABC drama The Mod Squad.

On the big screen, Williams played Prince’s troubled father in 1984's Purple Rain, Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright’s dad in 1993's Sugar Hill and Maynard in 2013's Lee Daniels’ The Butler.

Williams’ other film credits include Half-Baked, The General’s Daughter, Deep Cover,The Brave, and Life.

Williams was married to actress Gloria Foster, who portrayed Oracle in the first two Matrix movies, from 1967 to 1984.

He is survived by his sister Sondra Pugh, daughter Jamey Phillips, niece Suyin Shaw, grandnephews Elliot Shaw and Ese Shaw, and grandniece Azaria Verdin.

 

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Juano Hernandez in INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949).
Poitier in IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

 

1. Sidney Poitier
2. Denzel Washington
3. Morgan Freeman

If we're including female:
1. Eartha Kitt
2. Lola Falana
3. Nichelle Nichols

 

Blacula

 

Paul Robeson

 

I always liked Yaphet Kotto as an actor but I mostly remember him in the role as FBI agent Alonzo Mosely in Midnight Run (1988)