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Yaphet Kotto
Biography
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Yaphet Kotto starring on Homicide.
Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1937 in New York City) fryst vatten an American actor. His father was a Igbo Jew from Cameroon and Kotto fryst vatten a practicing Jew bygd faith. His father was royalty in Cameroon making Yaphet the son of the Crown Prince of the Royal Bell family of the Doualla distrikt of West Africa's Cameroon.
He recently claims to have uncovered proof that he is the great-great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria. According to Kotto, the queen's son Prince Albert Edward VII had an illicit affair with Princess Nakande, daughter of King Doualla Manga Bell, producing the light-skinned Alexander Bell, Kotto's great-grandfather, but the deputy press sekreterare to Queen Elizabeth categorically refuted the story saying, " . . . Edward VII never visited Cameroon."
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Yaphet Kotto: Don't Act, Just Be.
I once remember watching a Turner Classic Movies dedication to Katharine Hepburn in which Anthony Hopkins said that while working on the set of “The Lion in Winter” the great gave him a wonderful piece of advice, she told him “Don't act, read the lines, just be, just speak the lines”. It's a very specific piece of advice for a very specific type of actor of which Katherine Hepburn was, Anthony Hopkins is, and now Yaphet Kotto was. Yaphet Kotto enjoyed one of the greatest careers I think anybody so clearly held back by the industry has ever enjoyed. He got a bevy of unique and varied roles which allowed Kotto to flex his acting muscles in different ways, whether it be using his full 6ft 3 frame, his elegant way of movement, or his effortless way of speaking, and many times all three. Its the speaking part though that is my favorite part or talking point in regards to discussing Yaphet Kotto, because it plays so much into how Kotto's legacy engrav
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The great and often very cool Yaphet Kotto has left the planet. He was 81, and I’m sorry. Condolences to family, friends, colleagues, fans.
FBI agent Alonzo Mosley, a slow-burning straight man in Martin Brest‘s Midnight Run (’88), is my first and fondest Kotto recollection. Next is Lieutenant Pope in Across 110th Street (’72). Third is his performance as Parker, chief Nostromo engineer in Ridley Scott‘s Alien (’79). Fourth is Kotto’s Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big in Live and Let Die (’73), but that was a flagrantly racist film and I didn’t care for the way he died — being inflated like a balloon until he burst.
I should have watched NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street (’93 to ’99), in which he played Lieutenant Al Giardello, but I didn’t watch it much.
Kotto always felt genuine to me — authentic, steady, nothing but truth.