Louis Gossett Jr.

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Career

In Broadway's Taking a Giant Step, which was selected by The New York Times drama critics as one of the year's top shows of the year, Gossett replaced Bill Gunn as Spencer Scott. He was 17, and he was still a student at Abraham Lincoln High School with no formal drama training.

A Raisin in the Sun (1959), Gossett's Broadway debut (1959); he had his cinematic debut with the play's film version in 1961.

Gossett appeared in Jean Genet's The Blacks' original cast in 1961, the longest running off-Broadway play of the decade, with 1,408 performances. The original cast starred James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Cicely Tyson, Godfrey, Maya Angelou, and Charles Gordon.

Gossett appeared in the musical play The Zulu and the Zayda on Broadway in 1965 as Paulus with music and lyrics by Harold Rome.

Gossett composed the antiwar folk song "Handsome Johnny" with Richie Havens; Havens recorded the song in 1966.

Gossett's role in the 1977 television miniseries Roots first captured the audience's interest.

He appeared in the title role in Sadat, a miniseries that chronicled Anwar Sadat's life and assassination. Gossett was also filming An Officer and a Gentleman in the 1983-to-date science fiction film The Powers of Matthew. Emil Foley, a drill instructor in 1982's film An Officer and a Gentleman, received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was the first black male to win an Academy Award in a supporting role, the second black male to win for acting, and the third black actor to win overall.

He has worked with Dennis Quaid twice in both Jaws 3-D and Enemy Mines.

Gossett appeared in another capacity as a military man (Colonel Chappy Sinclair) in the film Iron Eagle in 1986. Three sequels were released after it was announced.

Gossett appeared in The Punisher, a Marvel Comics film from 1989, with Dolph Lundgren playing the title role. Mark Goldblatt directed the film, with Boaz Yakin's screenplay. The Punisher was shot in Sydney, Australia, and it also featured Jeroen Krabbé, Kim Miyori, and Barry Otto.

Gossett appeared in Manny Coto's action film Cover Up in 1991, opposite Dolph Lundgren.

In Season 9 of the sci-fi television series Stargate SG-1, Gossett is the voice of the Vortigaunts in Half-Life 2 and is the Free Jaffa Leader Gerak. Lucius Fox appears in The Batman animated film. AmMed Direct, LLC, a Nashville-based diabetic firm, has produced several commercials for his company, AmMed Direct, LLC. When Animals Attack!, Gossett's presentation in 1997. On Fox, a one-hour special.

In the 2005 film Left Behind: The United States at War, Gerald Fitzhugh played fictional US President Gerald Fitzhugh. He produced the Namibian lager Windhoek's "Keep It Real" series of commercials in 2008.

Gossett lent his voice to the Thomas Nelson audio Bible series The Word of Promise in 2009. Gossett played John the Apostle in this dramatized recording. Jim Caviezel, John Rhys-Davies, Jon Voight, Gary Sinise, Jason Alexander, Marisa Tomei, and John Schneider were among the project's notable Hollywood stars, including Jim Caviezel, John Rhys-Davies, John Rhys-Davies, John Owen, John Rhys-Davies, Marisa Tomei, and John Schneider.

In 2013, Gossett appeared in the tense drama Boiling Pot, which is based on true incidents of bigotry on college campuses around the country during the 2008 presidential election. Danielle Fishel, Keith David, M. Emmet Walsh, and John Heard appeared in the film, which was written and directed by the Ashmawey brothers under AshmaweyFilms. Gossett plays a detective who was attempting to decipher a murder case fueled by bigotry while still dismissing his own prejudices. In 2014, Boiling Pot was introduced. In the CBS All Access series The Good Fight, Gossett's guest starred as founding partner Carl Reddick of Diane Lockhart's new company, Gossett returned to television. He narrated an audiobook based on Twelve Years a Slave.

Gossett appears in the film Not To Forget (2021), which aims to raise hopes and funds for Alzheimer's research. Karen Grassle and 5 Academy Award recipients: Louis Gossett Jr., Cloris Leachman, Tatum O'Neal, George Chakiris, and Olympia Dukakis star Karen Grassle.

Music career

Gossett was regarded as a natural folk singer in the early 1960s. He was also well-known. His singing career was aided by his appearance at the Folk City Gallery in New York.

"Hooka' Dooka'," Gossett's single "Green Green" on "Goodmornin' Captain" was released in early 1964. "Red Rosy Bush" was released in May after "See See Rider" was released.

The Zulu's original cast recording that was released on Columbia Records in December, 1965, featured Menasha Skulnik and Gossett's vocal performance of "It's Good to Be Alive." "Handsome Johnny," a song he co-composed with Richie Havens, appears on Havens' Mixed Bag album, which was released in 1967. Havens performed it on the Johnny Carson Show, which resulted in a standing ovation that lasted through two commercial breaks.

His single "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" was out on Warner Brothers in 1967 by September, 1967. It was a Cash Box Newcomer Pick, with the reviewer naming it "Easy-paced blues working and a mighty fine smooth vocal ensemble uniting forces in presenting a compelling r&b reading of the folk standard."

On B.T., he released his album From Me to You in 1970. Puppy Records BTPS-1013. It featured some of his own creations.

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