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The Shaft franchise [1] consists of five action-crime feature films and seven television films, centered on a family of African-American police detectives who all share the name John Shaft. The first three features may be described as blaxploitation films, the television film series is a mystery, and the fourth feature installment is a crime ...
Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman [4] and John D. F. Black. [5] It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name and is the first entry in the Shaft film series .
John Shaft is a fictional private investigator created by author/screenwriter Ernest Tidyman for the 1970 novel of the same name.He was portrayed by Richard Roundtree in the original 1971 film and in its four sequels—Shaft's Big Score!, Shaft in Africa, Shaft (2000) and Shaft (2019)—as well as in the seven 1973–74 Shaft television films.
Often heralded as the first Black action hero, Roundtree shot to superstardom with his portrayal of private eye and smooth lady's man John Shaft in 1971's "Shaft." Richard Roundtree, star of the ...
Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft II, a private investigator and ex-NYPD Detective, father of JJ Shaft and son [a] of John Shaft Sr; Jessie T. Usher as John "J.J." Shaft, III, an FBI computer analyst, estranged son of John Shaft and grandson of John Shaft Sr, whom he meets for the first time since he was a baby.
Richard Roundtree’s work as the powerful, unapologetic Black male lead in the 1971 film "Shaft" introduced mainstream cinema to the African American action hero.
Richard Roundtree gave life to an alchemy of arrogance, attitude and swagger never-before-seen on screen in an African American man, writes Sam Fulwood III.
Shaft is a 2000 American action crime thriller film co-written, co-produced, and directed by John Singleton and starring Samuel L. Jackson in the title role with Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Dan Hedaya, Busta Rhymes, Toni Collette and Richard Roundtree.