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Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several "Shaft" films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. He was 81.
(Reuters) - Richard Roundtree, a trailblazing Black actor who played the private eye John Shaft in the "Shaft" films of the 1970s and also took on dra...
Roundtree’s Shaft was part of a change in how black films were viewed in Hollywood.
Samuel L. Jackson, Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson and more remember 'Shaft' actor Richard Roundtree.
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Richard Roundtree, the actor most famous for portraying the iconic blaxploitation hero John Shaft across five 'Shaft' movies, has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer at age 81.