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Louis Gossett Jr.1936 - 2024

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Biography

Louis Gossett Jr. (born May 27, 1936 - March 29, 2024) was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and as Fiddler in the television miniseries "Roots". He has won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards in an acting career that spans over five decades.

Credits

2024

Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Lewis (voice)

7.1(1,380)

14.5

The Color Purple

2023

Drama

as Ol' Mister

7.1(306)

3.7

Outlaw Johnny Black

2023

Action • Comedy • Western

as Reverend Tharrington (voice) (uncredited)

5.7(30)

0.8

Sidney

2022

Documentary

as Self

7.5(35)

0.8

Three Months

2022

Comedy • Drama

as Benny

7(63)

0.7

I Forgive

2021

Drama

as God (voice)

4.7(3)

0.2

Miracle in East Texas

2020

Drama

as Irving Tanner Jr.

1(1)

0.3

Breaking Brooklyn

2018

Drama • Family • Music • Romance

as Miles Bryant

7.8(14)

0.3

Undercover Grandpa

2017

Comedy • Family

as Mother

5.6(72)

0.7

Double Play

2017

Drama • History

as Coco

3.8(12)

0.1

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

2016

Documentary

as Self

8(15)

0.3

Boiling Pot

2015

Crime • Drama • History

as Detective Haven

5.2(3)

0.3

The Dependables

2014

Adventure • Comedy • Drama

as Lou Jones

3.1(10)

0.4

A Fighting Man

2014

Drama

as Cubby

5.4(40)

0.7

Miracle at Gate 213

2013

Drama • Family • Romance • TV Movie

as Roy Peddington

6(1)

0.2

Smitty

2012

Drama • Family

as Mr. Smith

5.9(24)

1.6

Dog Jack

2011

Drama

as Grown up Jed

4(2)

Why Did I Get Married Too?

2010

Comedy • Romance

as Porter

6.5(160)

1.9

The Perfect Game

2009

Drama • Family

as Cool Papa Bell

7.1(165)

1.5

The Least Among You

2009

Drama

as Samuel Benton

5(2)

0.2

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

2009

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

8(6)

0.5

Delgo

2008

Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction

as King Zahn (voice)

4.5(68)

0.7

Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth

2008

Documentary

as Self

0.3

Cover

2007

Crime • Drama • Mystery

as Detective Hicks

5.2(14)

0.5

Daddy's Little Girls

2007

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Willie

6.9(132)

3.1

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

0.3

Club Soda

2006

Drama

as Doc

0.1

Solar Attack

2006

Action • Science Fiction • TV Movie • Thriller

as President Ryan Gordon

5.2(43)

0.8

All In

2006

Drama

as Caps

4.3(11)

0.7

Left Behind: World at War

2005

Action • Adventure • Fantasy • Science Fiction • Thriller

as President Geral Fitzhugh

4.1(73)

0.9

Lackawanna Blues

2005

Drama • Music • TV Movie

as Ol'lem Taylor

5.9(27)

0.6

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

2004

Documentary

as Rev. Elija Bliss (archive footage)

4.6(29)

0.4

Momentum

2003

Science Fiction • TV Movie • Thriller

as Raymond Addison

4.8(13)

0.6

Deceived

2002

Science Fiction • Thriller

as Col. David Garrett

4.2(4)

0.4

For Love of Olivia

2001

Drama • TV Movie

as Daniel Stewart

1(1)

0.2

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

2000

Drama • TV Movie

as Lou Hastings

7(5)

0.3

The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence

2000

Crime • Mystery • TV Movie

as Frank

5.4(12)

0.6

The Highwayman

2000

Drama • Thriller

as Phil Bishop

4.5(4)

0.3

Y2K

1999

Action • Thriller

as Morgan

5.3(7)

0.5

The Inspectors

1998

Crime • Mystery • TV Movie

as Inspector Frank Hughes

5.9(12)

0.7

Legend of the Mummy

1998

Horror

as Corbeck

4.1(19)

0.5

In His Father's Shoes

1997

Drama • Family • TV Movie

as Frank Crosby / Richard

3.5(2)

0.2

To Dance with Olivia

1997

Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Daniel Stewart

0.4

Inside

1996

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Questioner

4.6(7)

0.4

Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story

1996

Drama • TV Movie

as Bob Kersee

0.2

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

1996

Drama • TV Movie

as James Mink

3.8(3)

0.5

Managua

1996

Action • Drama

as Paul

4.3(7)

0.3

Iron Eagle on the Attack

1995

Action • Adventure

as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair

3.8(46)

0.6

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

8.1(7)

0.6

A Father for Charlie

1995

Drama • TV Movie

as Walter Osgood

6.6(5)

0.2

Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing

1995

Documentary • TV Movie

as Narrator

0.2

Flashfire

1994

Action • Crime

as Ben Durand

4.3(6)

0.5

Curse of the Starving Class

1994

Drama

as Ellis

4.1(6)

0.2

A Good Man in Africa

1994

Comedy • Drama

as Prof. Sam Adekunle

5.1(38)

0.6

Blue Chips

1994

Drama

as Father Dawkins (uncredited)

6.1(191)

1.2

Monolith

1993

Action • Science Fiction

as Capt. MacCandless

4.3(20)

0.4

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

1993

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

6(4)

0.9

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

1992

Documentary

as Reader

5(1)

0.1

Diggstown

1992

Comedy • Drama

as "Honey" Roy Palmer

6.3(118)

1.2

Iron Eagle III

1992

Action • Thriller

as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair

4.1(69)

0.9

Carolina Skeletons

1991

TV Movie • Thriller

as James Bragg

6.8(7)

1.2

Toy Soldiers

1991

Action • Adventure • Thriller

as Dean Parker

6.5(352)

The Josephine Baker Story

1991

Drama • History • Music • TV Movie

as Sidney Williams

6(13)

0.3

Cover-Up

1991

Action • Drama • Thriller

as Lou Jackson

3.9(40)

0.7

Sudie and Simpson

1990

Drama • TV Movie

as Simpson

6.5(3)

0.4

El Diablo

1990

Comedy • TV Movie • Western

as Van Leek

5.6(31)

1.1

Zora is My Name!

1990

Comedy • Drama • Romance

0.4

The Punisher

1989

Action • Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Jake Berkowitz

5.8(623)

2.2

Roots: The Gift

1988

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Fiddler

6.8(12)

0.4

Goodbye, Miss 4th of July

1988

Drama • Family • TV Movie

as Big John Creed

0.3

Iron Eagle II

1988

Action • Adventure • Drama • War

as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair

4.5(89)

0.8

Sam Found Out: A Triple Play

1988

as Sam

0.1

The Father Clements Story

1987

Drama • TV Movie

0.3

The Principal

1987

Action • Adventure • Crime • Drama

as Jake Phillips

6.5(294)

0.9

A Gathering of Old Men

1987

Drama • TV Movie

as Mathu

6(10)

0.3

Firewalker

1986

Action • Adventure • Comedy

as Leo Porter

5.3(185)

Iron Eagle

1986

Action

as Charles 'Chappy' Sinclair

5.6(315)

1.8

Enemy Mine

1985

Drama • Science Fiction

as Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan

6.9(1,001)

2.4

The Guardian

1984

Drama • Thriller

as John Mack

4.2(4)

0.2

Finders Keepers

1984

Comedy

as Century

5.4(30)

0.5

Jaws 3-D

1983

Horror • Thriller

as Calvin Bouchard

4.5(1,328)

4.5

An Officer and a Gentleman

1982

Drama • Romance

as Sergeant Emil Foley

7(1,134)

3.1

I Love Liberty

1982

Documentary • Music • TV Movie

as Self

0.3

It Rained All Night the Day I Left

1980

Comedy

as Leo Garcia

4.8(4)

0.2

Lawman Without a Gun

1979

Drama • TV Movie

as Tom Hayward

0.4

The Lazarus Syndrome

1978

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as Dr. MacArthur St. Clair

4.6(5)

0.3

Freeman

1977

as Rex

5(1)

0.1

The Choirboys

1977

Comedy • Crime • Drama

as Calvin Motts

5.3(29)

2.7

The Deep

1977

Adventure • Mystery • Thriller

as Henri Cloche

6(237)

1.5

Little Ladies of the Night

1977

Drama • TV Movie

as Russ Garfield

3.3(3)

0.2

J.D.'s Revenge

1976

Horror • Thriller

as Rev. Elija Bliss

5.8(31)

0.5

The River Niger

1976

Drama

as Dr. Dudley Stanton

6.8(4)

0.3

Delancey Street: The Crisis Within

1975

Drama • TV Movie

as Otis James

0.3

The White Dawn

1974

Adventure • Drama • History

as Portagee

6.5(15)

0.2

Sidekicks

1974

Comedy • TV Movie • Western

as Jason O'Rourke

6(1)

0.2

The Laughing Policeman

1973

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Insp. James Larrimore SFPD

6.2(61)

0.7

Travels with My Aunt

1972

Adventure • Comedy

as Wordsworth

5.9(36)

0.5

Skin Game

1971

Action • Comedy • Western

as Jason O'Rourke

6.6(32)

0.4

The Landlord

1970

Comedy • Drama

as Copee Johnson

5.9(47)

0.7

A Raisin in the Sun

1961

Drama • Romance

as George Murchison

7.7(134)

Gridiron Gang

as Host

Black Bart

1975

Comedy • Western

as Black Bart

3.7(9)

0.4

It's Good to Be Alive

1974

Drama • TV Movie

as Sam Brockington

6.6(4)

0.2

The Bushbaby

1969

Adventure • Drama • History

as Tembo

6(1)

0.2

The New Girl

1960

as Mary's Brother

0.3

Everbrook (The Home)

Horror • Thriller

0.1

Companions in Nightmare

1968

Drama • Mystery • TV Movie

as Lt. Adam McKay

4(3)

0.3

Straight Up

as Cosmo

0.1

Not to Forget

2021

Drama

as Pastor John

6.7(9)

0.4

The Reason

2020

Drama

as Pastor Jim

7.6(9)

0.4

The Cuban

2020

Drama

as Luis Garcia

5.2(7)

0.4

Foster Boy

2019

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Judge George Taylor

6.9(23)

0.7

Supervized

2019

Comedy

as Pendle

5.1(33)

0.5

The Gang Activists

2019

as Self

0.2

Hal

2019

Documentary

as Self

6.5(11)

0.4

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

2017

Documentary

as Self

6.2(4)

0.3

King of the Dancehall

2017

Drama

as The Bishop

7.6(9)

0.5

A.C. Green: Iron Virgin

2016

Documentary

as Himself

0.2

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self (archive footage)

7(54)

0.7

The Undershepherd

2012

Drama

as Bishop Redford

2(2)

0.3

The Grace Card

2011

Drama

as George Wright

7.2(48)

1.3

Amazing Racer

2009

Family

as Max Donovan

6(23)

0.9

A Special Kind of Love

2008

Documentary

as Self

0.3

A Love Story of Today

2008

Documentary • Romance

as Self

0.3

The Black List: Volume One

2008

Documentary

as Himself

6.5(2)

0.2

Stories USA

2007

Comedy • Drama

as Doc (segment "Club Soda")

3.9(15)

0.6

Jasper, Texas

2003

Drama • TV Movie

as R.C. Horn

5.8(16)

0.5

What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away

2002

Drama • Family

as Dr. Barnes

7(1)

0.2

Dr. Lucille

2001

Drama • Romance

0.1

Strange Justice

1999

Drama • TV Movie

as Vernon Jordan

6(1)

0.3

Love Songs

1999

Romance

as Reuben

8(2)

0.3

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

1998

Documentary

as Self

0.2

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

1995

Mystery • TV Movie

as Ray Alexander

0.2

Zooman

1995

Action • Drama • TV Movie

as Rueben Tate

6(3)

1.1

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

1994

Mystery • TV Movie

as Ray Alexander

0.2

Keeper of the City

1991

Crime • Thriller

as Det. James Dela

5.5(2)

0.2

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987

Documentary • Family • TV Movie

as Self

5.7(6)

0.7

The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don't Die

1983

Documentary

as narrator

5(2)

0.2

Benny's Place

1982

as Benny Moore

10(1)

0.1

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

1981

Drama • TV Movie

as Leroy 'Satchel' Paige

6(4)

0.3

Crimes of Violence

as Self - Host

0.1

Forget to Remember

Romance • Thriller

0.1

To Kill a Cop

1978

Action • Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Everett Walker

0.5