Yaphet Kotto

Known for ActingBorn 1939-11-16Died 2021-03-15New York City, New York, U.S.A

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Limit

For Love and Honor

Homicide: Life on the Street

Alien

Othello

Rage!

Crunch

Night Gallery

Hill Street Blues

Inside 'Live and Let Die'

Murder, She Wrote

The A-Team

Father Dowling Mysteries

Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

Law & Order

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Blue Collar

Bonanza

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Midnight Run

Almost Blue

Nothing But a Man

seaQuest DSV

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

It's Nothing Personal

Brubaker

Homicide: The Movie

Hawaii Five-O

A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion

Dead Badge

Doctors' Hospital

The Name of the Game

Daniel Boone

The World of James Bond

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

Tarzan

The Thomas Crown Affair

Mannix

The High Chaparral

The Running Man

Across 110th Street

Man and Boy

Report to the Commissioner

After the Shock

Live and Let Die

Gunsmoke

Truck Turner

BaadAsssss Cinema