| LC control no. | no 96018109 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Roundtree, Richard, 1942-2023 |
| Located | United States |
| Birth date | 1942-07-09 |
| Death date | 2023-10-24 |
| Place of birth | New Rochelle (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | Negro Ensemble Company American Broadcasting Company CBS Television Network |
| Profession or occupation | Actors Models (Persons) |
| Found in | Gypsy angels, 1995: container (Richard Roundtree; actor) OCLC, 4-9-96 (hdg.: Roundtree, Richard, 1942- ) African American National Biography, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Roundtree, Richard; actor, model; born 09 July 1942 in New Rochelle, New York, United States; enrolled at Southern Illinois University (1961); returned to New York, began acting lessons, joined the Negro Ensemble Company (1967-1969); was selected to portray private detective John Shaft in the movie Shaft (1971), Shaft's Big Score (1972) and Shaft in Africa (1973); worked mostly in small television roles and minor films (1980s); appeared in ABC's Roots (1977), Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored (1996), CBS's Having Our Say (1999), John Singleton's remake of Shaft (2000), Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, and Heroes) New York Times, October 24, 2023, accessed via WWW, October 25, 2023 (Richard Roundtree; d. Tuesday [October 24, 2023], Los Angeles) <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/movies/richard-roundtree-dead.html> |
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