Rolling Stone Menu Yaphet Kotto: From Broadway to ‘Homicide’ Boss
Whether he was playing Bond villains, blue-collar workers or a Baltimore police detective, the veteran character actor was unforgettable
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You could not ignore Yaphet Kotto when he came on the screen. There was his sheer size: 6’3″ and broad as a barn in a business where most actors are much smaller than the camera makes them seem. There was that voice: hard as gravel, but also with an unmistakable lisp that lent just the right degree of vulnerability to the characters he played. And there were those eyes, so often red with a mix of rage, regret, and sheer weariness about the many travails his characters had been through.
Actor Yaphet Kotto, known for roles in Alien and Live and Let Die, has died at 81
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