Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. was an actor, born 1936, died 2024.
Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. was an American actor. He made his stage debut at age 17. Shortly thereafter, Gossett successfully auditioned for the Broadway play Take a Giant Step. He continued acting onstage in critically acclaimed plays including A Raisin in the Sun (1959), The Blacks (1961), Tambourines to Glory (1963), and The Zulu and the Zayda (1965). In 1977, Gossett appeared in the popular miniseries Roots, for which he won Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series at the Emmy Awards.
Movies (45)
- IF (2024)
- The Punisher (1989)
- Jaws 3-D (1983)
- An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
- The Color Purple (2023)
- Enemy Mine (1985)
- Iron Eagle (1986)
- Firewalker (1986)
- The Deep (1977)
- Diggstown (1992)
- Toy Soldiers (1991)
- Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
- The Perfect Game (2009)
- Stories USA (2007)
- Solar Attack (2006)
- Iron Eagle II (1988)
- The Principal (1987)
- Iron Eagle III (1992)
- Foster Boy (2019)
- El Diablo (1990)
- Lackawanna Blues (2005)
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
- The Reason (2020)
- I Forgive (2021)
- Cover-Up (1991)
- Undercover Grandpa (2017)
- Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)
- Amazing Racer (2009)
- Momentum (2003)
TV (19)
- Golden Globe Awards (1944)
- The Batman (2004)
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990)
- Watchmen (2019)
- Good Times (1974)
- Half & Half (2002)
- Roots (1977)
- The Mod Squad (1968)
- Extant (2014)
- Petrocelli (1974)
- Daktari (1966)
- The Bill Cosby Show (1969)
- Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
- The Book of Negroes (2015)
- Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980)
- The Powers of Matthew Star (1982)
- The Spoils Before Dying (2015)
- The Young Rebels (1970)
- Backstairs at the White House (1979)