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- By Noor Nanji
- Tradition reporter
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Louis Gossett Jr, the primary black man to win one of the best supporting actor Oscar, has died on the age of 87.
The New York-born actor received the Academy Award in 1982 for his position as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman.
Gossett additionally received an Emmy in 1978 for his position in Roots, the ground-breaking TV mini-series about slavery.
His demise was confirmed by his household to the BBC’s US companion CBS. No reason for demise was given.
Gossett made his Broadway debut as a youngster and later starred in reveals resembling A Raisin within the Solar and Golden Boy.
He went on to achieve important acclaim throughout a six-decade profession.
Gossett continued appearing into later life and his final position was within the 2023 musical remake of The Coloration Purple.
Within the movie, a reimagining of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, he performed Ol’ Mister Johnson, father of Albert “Mister” Johnson, performed by Colman Domingo.
Writing on Instagram, Domingo known as him “a real nice. A real legend”.
“What an honour to have been capable of give him his flowers on his final day of his remaining movie The Coloration Purple the place he performed my father,” he wrote.
“Fantasia [Barrino] sang it greatest … He ran his race for us. We’re endlessly indebted. Could we stand firmly on his shoulders. Raise him up in the present day. RIP”
Barrino, who performed lead character Celie within the movie, additionally wrote: “Louis Gossett Jr, what an superior man you have been and the tales you advised us, I will by no means, ever overlook.”
She added that he had “paved the best way for black actors and actresses”.
Gossett additionally starred in Backstairs At The White Home, The Story Of Satchel Paige, The Josephine Baker Story, for which he received a Golden Globe, and Roots Revisited.
He additionally starred within the cult Eighties science fiction movie Enemy Mine because the alien Jeriba Shigan, alongside Dennis Quaid.
