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Shaft is a television series that aired along with Hawkins during 1973–74 television season on The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies. Broadcast every third week, the series is a follow-up continuation of the three feature films that preceded its release.
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 ...
Richard Arnold Roundtree (July 9, 1942 – October 24, 2023) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft and four of its sequels, Shaft's Big Score!
Richard Roundtree, who played the iconic lead character in the 1971 movie Shaft and its sequels, has died at the age of 81. The actor passed away on Tuesday “after a brief battle with pancreatic ...
Richard Roundtree has died. The actor, best known for his starring role in Shaft, died on Tuesday after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer with his family at his bedside, his agency and manager ...
(Reuters) - Richard Roundtree, a trailblazing Black actor who played the private eye John Shaft in the "Shaft" films of the 1970s and also took on dramatic roles dealing with race relations in ...
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.
Man in jazz club Uncredited 1970 Pound: Greyhound 1971 Shaft: Bunky Cisco Pike: Brother Buffalo Believe in Me: Boy 1972 Across 110th Street: Henry J. Jackson 1973 Cleopatra Jones: Doodlebug 1974 Busting: Stephen Conrack: Quickfellow Foxy Brown: Link Brown The Gambler: Pimp 1975 Huckleberry Finn: Jim: TV film Cornbread, Earl and Me: One-Eye 1976 ...