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Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. (May 27, 1936 – March 29, 2024) was an American actor. He made his stage debut at the age of 17. He made his stage debut at the age of 17. Shortly thereafter, he successfully auditioned for the Broadway play Take a Giant Step .
Gossett in 2017. Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. (May 27, 1936 – March 29, 2024) was an American actor. He was a folk singer in the 1960s. He is best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman, winning him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Over 50 years, Louis Gossett Jr. was inundated with awards and nominations. [1]He received the Donaldson award. [2]Conspicuous awards include: The first Best Supporting Actor Academy Award given to an African-American in An Officer and a Gentleman [3] [2] [4]
Louis Gossett Jr. (first cousin) Robert Gossett (born March 3, 1954 [ 1 ] ) is an American actor. He is best known for his role of Commander Russell Taylor on the TNT crime drama , The Closer and on its successor series Major Crimes .
Set in a small town in Georgia during World War II, Sudie and Simpson focuses on the friendship between Sudie Harrigan (Gilbert), a 10-year-old girl who had never seen a "nigger" in real life, and Simpson (Gossett Jr.), a black man living surreptitiously in an abandoned shack in the woods. Sudie who finds to her surprise and pleasure that black ...
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film [4] directed by Taylor Hackford from a screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart, and starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr.
The Principal is a 1987 action thriller film starring Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr. and Rae Dawn Chong.Written by Frank Deese and directed by Christopher Cain, it was filmed in Oakland, California, and at Northgate High School in nearby Walnut Creek and distributed by TriStar Pictures on Panavision.
Iron Eagle is a 1986 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie who co-wrote the screenplay with Kevin Alyn Elders, and starring Jason Gedrick and Louis Gossett Jr. [3] The film is unfavorably compared to the similarly-themed Top Gun released the same year.