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Louis Gossett Jr.1936 - 2024

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Actor

Popularity

2.9

Famous

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

Iron Eagle III

1992

Action • Thriller

4.2(67)

0.8

Freeman

1977

5(1)

0.2

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Documentary • TV Movie

0(0)

0.4

The Principal

1987

Action • Adventure • Crime • Drama

6.5(291)

0.8

An Officer and a Gentleman

1982

Drama • Romance

7(1,126)

Toy Soldiers

1991

Action • Adventure • Thriller

6.5(349)

1.5

Momentum

2003

Science Fiction • TV Movie • Thriller

4.8(13)

0.6

The Deep

1977

Adventure • Mystery • Thriller

6(236)

0.9

Iron Eagle

1986

Action

5.6(310)

1.3

Delgo

2008

Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction

4.5(67)

0.8

Finders Keepers

1984

Comedy

5.4(29)

0.5

Skin Game

1971

Action • Comedy • Western

6.6(32)

0.5

Travels with My Aunt

1972

Adventure • Comedy

5.9(36)

0.5

The White Dawn

1974

Adventure • Drama • History

6.5(15)

0.3

The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence

2000

Crime • Mystery • TV Movie

5.4(11)

0.3

Iron Eagle II

1988

Action • Adventure • Drama • War

4.5(87)

0.8

Enemy Mine

1985

Drama • Science Fiction

6.9(990)

1.7

The Punisher

1989

Action • Crime • Drama • Thriller

5.8(616)

2.8

Firewalker

1986

Action • Adventure • Comedy

5.3(184)

1.3

The New Girl

1960

0(0)

0.2

Solar Attack

2006

Action • Science Fiction • TV Movie • Thriller

5.2(43)

1.1

Iron Eagle on the Attack

1995

Action • Adventure

3.8(45)

0.5

Why Did I Get Married Too?

2010

Comedy • Romance

6.5(158)

0.9

I Love Liberty

1982

Documentary • Music • TV Movie

0(0)

0.5

The Laughing Policeman

1973

Crime • Drama • Thriller

6.2(61)

0.6

A Raisin in the Sun

1961

Drama • Romance

7.7(132)

0.7

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

2009

Comedy • Documentary

8(6)

0.2

J.D.'s Revenge

1976

Horror • Thriller

5.8(31)

0.5

Daddy's Little Girls

2007

Comedy • Drama • Romance

6.9(131)

1.9

Left Behind: World at War

2005

Action • Adventure • Fantasy • Science Fiction • Thriller

4.1(72)

0.5

The Landlord

1970

Comedy • Drama

5.9(46)

0.6

Y2K

1999

Action • Thriller

5.3(7)

0.7

Club Soda

2006

Drama

0(0)

0.3

Jaws 3-D

1983

Horror • Thriller

4.5(1,315)

2.5

The Least Among You

2009

Drama

5(2)

0.2

Miracle in East Texas

2020

Drama

0(0)

0.4

The Choirboys

1977

Comedy • Crime • Drama

5.3(28)

0.4

All In

2006

Drama

4.6(10)

0.8

Diggstown

1992

Comedy • Drama

6.3(114)

Dog Jack

2011

Drama

4(2)

0.7

El Diablo

1990

Comedy • TV Movie • Western

5.6(30)

0.9

Cover

2007

Crime • Drama • Mystery

4.9(13)

0.5

Three Months

2022

Comedy • Drama

7.1(62)

0.6

Managua

1996

Action • Drama

4.3(7)

0.2

The Perfect Game

2009

Drama • Family

7.1(163)

1.3

The River Niger

1976

Drama

7.3(3)

0.4

A Gathering of Old Men

1987

Drama • TV Movie

6(10)

0.2

Smitty

2012

Drama • Family

6.1(23)

Cover-Up

1991

Action • Drama • Thriller

4(37)

0.8

The Josephine Baker Story

1991

Drama • History • Music • TV Movie

6.5(12)

0.3

Roots: The Gift

1988

Drama • History • TV Movie

6.8(12)

0.3

Gridiron Gang

0(0)

0.1

Deceived

2002

Science Fiction • Thriller

4.2(4)

0.5

Monolith

1993

Action • Science Fiction

4.5(19)

0.7

The Color Purple

2023

Drama

7.1(298)

2.5

The Lazarus Syndrome

1978

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

4.6(5)

0.1

Little Ladies of the Night

1977

Drama • TV Movie

3.3(3)

0.4

Carolina Skeletons

1991

TV Movie • Thriller

6.8(7)

0.5

Black Bart

1975

Comedy • Western

3.7(9)

0.2

It's Good to Be Alive

1974

Drama • TV Movie

6.6(4)

0.2

Sudie and Simpson

1990

Drama • TV Movie

6.5(3)

0.2

Lackawanna Blues

2005

Drama • Music • TV Movie

6.4(24)

0.5

In His Father's Shoes

1997

Drama • Family • TV Movie

6(1)

0.2

Legend of the Mummy

1998

Horror

4.2(18)

0.8

Flashfire

1994

Action • Crime

5(5)

0.3

The Bushbaby

1969

Adventure • Drama • History

6(1)

0.1

2024

Comedy • Family • Fantasy

7.1(1,352)

15.9

Curse of the Starving Class

1994

Drama

4.1(6)

0.3

Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story

1996

Drama • TV Movie

0(0)

0.2

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

1993

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

6(4)

0.7

A Father for Charlie

1995

Drama • TV Movie

7(4)

0.2

The Color of Love: Jacey's Story

2000

Drama • TV Movie

7(5)

0.3

Sidekicks

1974

Comedy • TV Movie • Western

6(1)

0.3

The Guardian

1984

Drama • Thriller

4.2(4)

0.4

I Forgive

2021

Drama

4.7(3)

0.5

The Father Clements Story

1987

Drama • TV Movie

0(0)

0.2

The Inspectors

1998

Crime • Mystery • TV Movie

5.9(12)

0.3

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

Documentary • TV Movie

8.1(7)

0.8

The Dependables

2014

Adventure • Comedy • Drama

3.1(10)

0.6

Sidney

2022

Documentary

7.5(35)

0.9

Sam Found Out: A Triple Play

1988

0(0)

0.2

Delancey Street: The Crisis Within

1975

Drama • TV Movie

0(0)

0.2

Blue Chips

1994

Drama

6.1(189)

1.3

Inside

1996

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

4.6(7)

0.5

For Love of Olivia

2001

Drama • TV Movie

0(0)

0.1

Miracle at Gate 213

2013

Drama • Family • Romance • TV Movie

6(1)

0.2

It Rained All Night the Day I Left

1980

Comedy

4.8(4)

0.2

Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth

2008

Documentary

0(0)

0.2

A Good Man in Africa

1994

Comedy • Drama

5.2(37)

0.6

Everbrook (The Home)

Horror • Thriller

0(0)

0.1

Outlaw Johnny Black

2023

Action • Comedy • Western

6(27)

0.9

Goodbye, Miss 4th of July

1988

Drama • Family • TV Movie

0(0)

0.2

Boiling Pot

2015

Crime • Drama • History

5.2(3)

0.3

Companions in Nightmare

1968

Drama • Mystery • TV Movie

5.5(2)

0.2

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

1996

Drama • TV Movie

3.2(2)

0.3

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

1992

Documentary

5(1)

0.1

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

2004

Documentary

4.6(29)

1.2

A Fighting Man

2014

Drama

5.6(38)

0.7

To Dance with Olivia

1997

Drama • Romance • TV Movie

0(1)

0.3

Straight Up

0(0)

0.1

Double Play

2017

Drama • History

4(11)

0.4

The Highwayman

2000

Drama • Thriller

4.5(4)

0.3

Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing

1995

Documentary • TV Movie

0(0)

0.2

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

2016

Documentary

8(15)

0.4

Lawman Without a Gun

1979

Drama • TV Movie

0(0)

0.2

Undercover Grandpa

2017

Comedy • Family

5.6(72)

0.6

Breaking Brooklyn

2018

Drama • Family • Music • Romance

7.8(14)

0.1

Zora is My Name!

1990

Comedy • Drama • Romance

0(0)

0.1

King of the Dancehall

2017

Drama

8.4(8)

0.2

Hal

2019

Documentary

6.5(11)

0.5

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

2017

Documentary

6.2(4)

0.1

The Black List: Volume One

2008

Documentary

6.5(2)

0.2

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

1994

Mystery • TV Movie

0(0)

0.1

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

1995

Mystery • TV Movie

0(0)

0.4

Keeper of the City

1991

Crime • Thriller

5.5(2)

0.1

Strange Justice

1999

Drama • TV Movie

6(1)

0.3

What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away

2002

Drama • Family

7(1)

0.1

Supervized

2019

Comedy

5.1(33)

0.5

A.C. Green: Iron Virgin

2016

Documentary

0(0)

0.1

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

1981

Drama • TV Movie

6(4)

0.1

The Gang Activists

2019

0(0)

0.1

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

Documentary • TV Movie

7(54)

Zooman

1995

Action • Drama • TV Movie

6(3)

0.3

The Cuban

2020

Drama

5.2(7)

0.3

Jasper, Texas

2003

Drama • TV Movie

6.1(15)

0.5

Love Songs

1999

Romance

8(2)

0.2

Benny's Place

1982

10(1)

0.2

The Grace Card

2011

Drama

7.2(48)

Foster Boy

2019

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

6.9(23)

0.6

The Reason

2020

Drama

7.6(9)

0.5

A Love Story of Today

2008

Documentary • Romance

0(0)

0.2

A Special Kind of Love

2008

Documentary

0(0)

0.1

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

1983

Documentary

5(2)

0.1

Stories USA

2007

Comedy • Drama

4.1(14)

0.6

Crimes of Violence

0(0)

0.1

Forget to Remember

Romance • Thriller

0(0)

0.2

Not to Forget

2021

Drama

6.7(9)

0.2

To Kill a Cop

1978

Action • Crime • Drama • TV Movie

0(0)

0.5

The Undershepherd

2012

Drama

2(2)

0.4

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

1998

Documentary

0(0)

0.1

Amazing Racer

2009

Family

6.2(22)

0.7

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood

1987

Documentary • Family • TV Movie

7.5(4)

0.8

Dr. Lucille

2001

Drama • Romance

0(0)

0.1