Richard Roundtree

Acting

Richard Roundtree

Born 1942-07-09 New Rochelle, New York, USA 99 films

Richard Arnold Roundtree (July 9, 1942 – October 24, 2023) was an American actor. He is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019. For his performance in the original film, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972. Roundtree died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Los Angeles. He was…

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Filmography

99 films
City Heat poster

Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer…

City Heat

★ 5.5 1984

Killpoint poster

An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang t…

Killpoint

★ 5.2 1984

Young Warriors poster

After a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, her brother takes up…

Young Warriors

★ 3.9 1983

The Big Score poster

A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing dow…

The Big Score

★ 6.0 1983

Q poster

A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating f…

Q

★ 5.7 1982

Inchon poster

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationsh…

Inchon

★ 3.9 1981