Austin Stoker

Known for ActingBorn 1943-10-07Died 2022-10-07Trinidad, West Indies

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre. Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby (1974), Combat Cops (1974), and Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Horror High (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Victory at Entebbe (1976), and the 1977 television mini-series Roots. Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13. Stoker died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on October 7, 2022, his 92nd birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Stoker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

Another Time, Another Place

Big John

Airwolf

Roots

Assault on Precinct 13

The Six Million Dollar Man

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

The Wild Thornberrys

The Incredible Hulk

Kojak

S.W.A.T.

Arli$$

The Man with the Power

Return to the Planet of the Apes

The Aquarians

3 from Hell

Love, American Style

Airport 1975

Falcon Crest

Sheba, Baby

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Horror High

Abby

Monty Nash

Terror Among Us

Victory at Entebbe

The Zebra Killer

Uninvited

Mach 2

Time Walker

Shhhh

Two Shades of Blue

Riding with Death

Machete Joe

End of an Epic: The Final Battle

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