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Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942 in New York) is an African American actor famous for portraying John Shaft in the movie Shaft (1971) and in its two sequels: Shaft's Big Score in 1972, and Shaft in Africa in 1973.
He was a leading man during the early 1970s in the Blaxploitation films. Prior to becoming an actor, he was a model.
He had never stopped working as an actor since the 1970s although his films were not high profile. Recently however, it seemed he was making a comeback as a cult icon.
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