Richard Roundtree, who broke ground with his signature role in the Shaft movie franchise, passed away on October 24, after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Born Richard Arnold Roundtree on July 9, 1942, in New Rochelle, New York, Roundtree’s career spanned five decades and included everything from his most popular blaxploitation role to a very early appearance on ‘As the World Turns’ in 1956. Decades later, the actor reprised his role in the 2000 John Singleton movie “Shaft” starring Samuel L. Jackson and the 2019 Tim Story-directed sequel “Shaft”. Richard was married twice and had five children. Roundtree appeared in one Spaghetti Western 1972’s “Charley-One-Eye as ‘The Black Man’ with co-star Roy Thinnes.
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