Gender: Male
Born: 27th May 1936 (currently 75 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Batman,
The Young Rebels,
The Powers of Matthew Star,
Gideon Oliver,
Roots,
The Lazarus Syndrome,
Backstairs at the White House,
Black in the 80s,
Return to Lonesome Dove,
SidekicksMovies: An Officer and a Gentleman,
Jaws 3-D,
The Landlord,
The Principal,
Enemy Mine,
Travels with My Aunt,
Toy Soldiers,
Left Behind: World at War,
The Punisher,
Finders Keepers,
Iron Eagle,
Momentum,
Skin Game,
Daddy's Little Girls,
Firewalker,
Diggstown,
Sidekicks,
J.D.'s Revenge,
Iron Eagle II,
Aces: Iron Eagle III,
Iron Eagle IV,
A Good Man in Africa,
The River Niger,
Delgo,
Shannon's Rainbow,
Jasper, Texas,
Dog Jack,
The White Dawn,
The Perfect Game,
The Bushbaby,
A Gathering of Old Men,
Why Did I Get Married Too?,
Buttermilk Sky,
The Wall That Heals,
The Color Of Love: Jacey's Story,
Cover,
El Diablo,
High Lonesome,
Blue Chips,
The Laughing Policeman,
Cover Up,
Sudie and Simpson,
A Raisin in the Sun,
The Choirboys,
The Josephine Baker Story,
Little Ladies of the Night,
The Deep,
Solar Attack,
Carolina Skeletons,
The Highwayman,
In His Father's Shoes,
Flashfire,
All In,
It's Good to Be Alive,
What About Your Friends: Weekend Getaway,
The Least Among You,
Broadway Theatre Archive: Freeman,
Inside,
African Footprint,
Terminal Countdown,
Deceived,
Love Songs,
Lackawanna Blues,
Leo The Last,
A Fonder Heart,
Legend of the Mummy,
The Grace Card,
Curse of the Starving Class,
American Breakdown,
Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement,
The Home,
Redemption,
Smitty,
The List,
RootsLouis Cameron Gossett, Jr. (born May 27, 1936) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman, and his Emmy Award-winning role as Fiddler in the 1977 ABC television miniseries Roots. Gossett has also starred in numerous film productions including A Raisin In The Sun, Skin Game, Travels with My Aunt, The Laughing Policeman, The Deep, Jaws 3-D (as SeaWorld manager Calvin Bouchard), Wolfgang Peterson's Enemy Mine, the Iron Eagle series, Toy Soldiers and The Punisher, in an acting career that spans over five decades.
Gossett, Jr. was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, to Hellen Rebecca (née Wray), a nurse, and Louis Gossett, Sr., a porter. His stage debut came at the age of 17, in a school production of You Can't Take It with You when a sports injury resulted in the decision to take an acting class. Polio had already delayed his graduation.
After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1954, he attended New York University, declining an athletic scholarship. Standing 6'4" (1.93 m), he was offered the opportunity to play varsity basketball during his college
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