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Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto was an American actor known for his roles in films such as "Alien," "Live and Let Die," and "Midnight Run." He was also a writer, and published an autobiography in 2014 titled "The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African-American Theater, 1900-1940." Kotto passed away in 2021 at the age of 81.

Titles credited to Yaphet Kotto

Alien

Alien

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 8.5

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs...

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Blue Collar

Blue Collar

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union h...

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Midnight Run

Midnight Run

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who embezzled $15 million of mob money. He is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

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Brubaker

Brubaker

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.1

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

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Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Thr...

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Truck Turner

Truck Turner

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.

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Report to the Commissioner

Report to the Commissioner

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1975 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a...

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The Running Man

The Running Man

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.7

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of gam...

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Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 6.7

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.

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The Star Chamber

The Star Chamber

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 6.3

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as...

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