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In 1950s Pittsburgh, Troy Maxson lives in a modest house with his wife, Rose, and their teenage son, Cory. He works as a garbage collector alongside his best friend, Jim Bono, whom he has known for decades. Troy left home at 14 after standing up to his abusive father, becoming a robber to survive on his own.
Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson.Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle".Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes.
In 1990, Ross played Troy Maxson in a Cincinnati production of August Wilson's Fences. It was the first time his family saw him perform on stage since the contest in 1952. He came home to Dayton, Ohio for good in 1997 and opened Your Place, a jazz club on West Third Street.
He won his second Tony award in 1987 for his role of Troy Maxson in “Fences.” His iconic voice became instantly recognizable to a younger generation in the 1990s, when he voiced Mufasa in ...
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In 1987, Jones starred in August Wilson's play Fences as Troy Maxson, a middle aged working class father who struggles to provide for his family. [23] The play, set in the 1950s, is part of Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle". The play explores the evolving African American experience and examines race relations, among other themes.
The film chronicles the events surrounding his untimely death, where he was killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer at the Fruitvale district station in Oakland. Watch on Prime Video 53.
His representative confirmed his death to ABC News and Deadline on Sept. 9. Jones, born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, is known by many as the voice of Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars ...