Yaphet Kotto starred in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street as Lieutenant Al Giardello.
25 Facts About Yaphet Kotto
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Yaphet Kotto's films include the science-fiction horror film Alien, the science-fiction action film The Running Man, the James Bond film Live and Let Die, in which he portrayed the main villain Dr Kananga, and the comedy thriller Midnight Run opposite Robert De Niro.
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Yaphet Kotto's mother, Gladys Marie, was an American nurse and US Army officer of Panamanian and West Indian descent.
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Yaphet Kotto's father, Yaphet Avraham Kotto, was a businessman from Cameroon who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s.
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Yaphet Kotto's father was raised Jewish and his mother converted to Judaism.
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The couple separated when Yaphet Kotto was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents.
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Yaphet Kotto was a member of the Actors Studio in New York.
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Yaphet Kotto got his start in acting on Broadway, where he appeared in The Great White Hope, among other productions.
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Yaphet Kotto performed in Michael Roemer's Nothing but a Man and played a supporting role in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Yaphet Kotto played John Auston, a confused Marine Lance Corporal, in the 1968 episode "King of the Hill", on the first season of Hawaii Five-O.
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Yaphet Kotto played a police officer, Richard "Crunch" Blackstone, in the 1975 film Report to the Commissioner.
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Yaphet Kotto portrayed Idi Amin in the 1977 television film Raid on Entebbe.
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Yaphet Kotto starred as an auto worker in the 1978 film Blue Collar.
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Yaphet Kotto followed with a supporting role in the 1980 prison drama Brubaker.
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Yaphet Kotto was cast as a religious man living in the southwestern desert country in the 1967 episode "A Man Called Abraham" on the syndicated anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor.
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Yaphet Kotto retired from film acting in the mid-1990s, though he had one final film role in Witless Protection.
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Yaphet Kotto portrayed Lieutenant Al Giardello in the long-running television series Homicide: Life on the Street.
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Yaphet Kotto has written the book Royalty and wrote scripts for Homicide.
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Later, Yaphet Kotto married Toni Pettyjohn, and they had three children together, before divorcing in 1989.
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Yaphet Kotto married his third wife, Tessie Sinahon, who is from the Philippines, in 1998.
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Yaphet Kotto was versed in the Hebrew liturgy and incorporated Jewish prayers at turning points throughout his life.
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Yaphet Kotto supported Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.
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Yaphet Kotto expressed support for Black Lives Matter and QAnon.
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Yaphet Kotto died at the age of 81 on March 15,2021, near Manila, Philippines.
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Yaphet Kotto was mentioned by Childish Gambino on the track 'yaphet kotto '.