Topic: YAPHET KOTTO, RIP

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I first remember him in Alien.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/03/yaphet-kotto-rip.php
POSTED ON MARCH 16, 2021 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF IN MOVIES
YAPHET KOTTO, RIP
I learned today from the Power Line picks that Yaphet Kotto has died. I learned from the obituary that Scott (I assume) linked to that Kotto was Jewish. I had no idea.

Kotto wasn’t a convert to Judaism. According to ManishTana, a website run by an Orthodox rabbi, Kotto’s father immigrated to the U.S. from Cameroon in the 1920s as an observant Jew who could speak Hebrew. Kotto reportedly said that his father’s ancestors were African Jews who originally came from the area of modern Israel and migrated through Egypt to Cameroon.

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Kananga/Mr. Big



But Clifton James stole the scenes IMO...

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/yaphet-kotto-said-alien-was-the-answer-to-a-question-he-had-during-the-1963-march-on-washington
...The actor said he visited the same spot many years later with his oldest daughter. "We went to the spot where I was standing. And I was telling her how, years before I stood there listening to Dr. King's speech," he explained. "And a bus pulled up with a bunch of children from Japan. They got out of the bus and they ran towards me. I couldn't understand what they were speaking, but there was one thing that blew me away, the fact that they were all saying one word: Alien."
https://youtu.be/6vCJHbflwuU