Richard Roundtree
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Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942 in New Rochelle, New York) is an African-American actor and former male fashion model famous for portraying John Shaft in the film Shaft ((1971)) and in its two sequels: Shaft's Big Score (1972), and Shaft in Africa (1973).
He was a leading man in early 1970s Blaxploitation films. Prior to becoming an actor, he was a football player and a model.
Although Roundtree worked through the 1990s, many of his more recent films were not well-received, but he was able to find success in stage plays. Since 1990, however, he apparently was reemerging as a cult icon. Roundtree appeared in David Fincher's critically acclaimed 1995 movie Se7en, the 2000 remake of Shaft as John Shaft's uncle, and guest-starred in several episodes of the first season of Desperate Housewives as an amoral private detective. He also starred in 1997's George of the Jungle, as well as playing a high school principal in the 2005 (General release: 2006) movie Brick.
Most recently, he has appeared in the television series Heroes as Simone's terminally ill father, Charles Deveaux.
Roundtree was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993 and underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy.[1]
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