Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto

Birthday: 1939-11-16

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.A

Biography: Yaphet Frederick Kotto (November 16, 1939 – March 15, 2021) was an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction and horror film Alien (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction and action film The Running Man (1987). He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973). He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller Midnight Run (1988) as FBI Agent Alonzo Mosley.

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Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he find...

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The Running Man
The Running Man

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, c...

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The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional age...

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Brubaker
Brubaker

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

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5 Card Stud
5 Card Stud

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one....

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Homicide: The Movie
Homicide: The Movie

Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conf...

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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the ...

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Truck Turner
Truck Turner

Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hire...

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Across 110th Street
Across 110th Street

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are...

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Raid on Entebbe
Raid on Entebbe

Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Fron...

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The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters

The Earth is invaded by alien parasites—AKA 'slugs'—that ride on people's backs and control their mi...

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Midnight Run
Midnight Run

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter,...

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Bone
Bone

When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple experiencing marital problems...

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The Star Chamber
The Star Chamber

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge...

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Warning Sign
Warning Sign

An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister ...

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Eye of the Tiger
Eye of the Tiger

Buck is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being te...

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Terminal Entry
Terminal Entry

The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer...

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Report to the Commissioner
Report to the Commissioner

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson...

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Blue Collar
Blue Collar

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial...

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Witless Protection
Witless Protection

When a small-town sheriff witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to sa...

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BaadAsssss Cinema
BaadAsssss Cinema

With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period...

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Two If by Sea
Two If by Sea

Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unstead...

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The Park Is Mine
The Park Is Mine

A Vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vi...

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Tripwire
Tripwire

A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo hijack a speeding railroad train load...

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The Monkey Hustle
The Monkey Hustle

A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party....

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Friday Foster
Friday Foster

Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the ...

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Nothing But a Man
Nothing But a Man

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America....

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Drum
Drum

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of ...

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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
The Liberation of L.B. Jones

A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he i...

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Extreme Justice
Extreme Justice

Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to ...

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Fighting Back
Fighting Back

An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks....

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Man and Boy
Man and Boy

At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier...

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Ministry of Vengeance
Ministry of Vengeance

David Miller is a Vietnam vet who renounced violence and became a minister after he was forced to bl...

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In Self Defense
In Self Defense

A witness is terrorized by the killer against whom she testified....

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The Defenders: Payback
The Defenders: Payback

Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his...

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Stiletto Dance
Stiletto Dance

Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among se...

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Chrome Soldiers
Chrome Soldiers

Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother...

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Pretty Kill
Pretty Kill

A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time ...

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Badge of the Assassin
Badge of the Assassin

Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation...

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It's Nothing Personal
It's Nothing Personal

An embittered ex-cop, on a quest for justice, teams up with a hard-boiled bounty hunter to go after ...

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Out-of-Sync
Out-of-Sync

A DJ and ex-con is forced to work with the police in an undercover drug sting targeting his boss....

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A Whisper to a Scream
A Whisper to a Scream

A young girl who was frustrated in her desire to become an actress starts to work for a telephone-se...

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Hangfire
Hangfire

When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton e...

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Intent to Kill
Intent to Kill

A young policewoman relentlessly tries to bring down a ruthless drug kingpin whom plots his own agen...

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Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary

Original 1973 short promotional documentary on the making of the 8th James Bond movie Live and Let D...

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Crunch
Crunch

Detective goes after drug-dealers in Manhattan....

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Desperado
Desperado

Cowboy Duell McCall wants to quickly deliver a herd of cattle to town, get paid and move on but roma...

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The Jigsaw Murders
The Jigsaw Murders

A jigsaw puzzle is the key in a detective's investigation of a gruesome murder....

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After the Shock
After the Shock

On October 17 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked San Francisco. Presented...

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The Limit
The Limit

In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods wit...

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Alien
Alien

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a di...

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Night Chase
Night Chase

A man fleeing the scene after shooting his wife's lover forms an unexpected relationship with the to...

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Harem
Harem

A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she ...

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Prime Target
Prime Target

A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to s...

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Sharks' Treasure
Sharks' Treasure

Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and...

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Playing with Fire
Playing with Fire

Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee ...

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Women of San Quentin
Women of San Quentin

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughe...

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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna B...

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Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who inves...

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King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmake...

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Othello
Othello

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carryi...

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The American Clock
The American Clock

Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed...

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For Love and Honor
For Love and Honor

A military drama set on a Texas base focuses on the ups and downs of young paratroopers, who, while ...

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Rage!
Rage!

In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison....

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Dead Badge
Dead Badge

After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fall...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

Perry is suing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and ...

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Almost Blue
Almost Blue

The young jazz saxophonist Morris Poole is at the height of his career. When his wife dies he is alm...

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Inside 'Live and Let Die'
Inside 'Live and Let Die'

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"...

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The World of James Bond
The World of James Bond

Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in...

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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion

Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to sei...

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The Ride
The Ride

Originally intended as a pilot for a drama series on Canadian channel Showcase, this TV movie follow...

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