Actor, who has died in Los Angeles aged 81, became the first black action hero when he shot to stardom in the 1971 blaxploitation crime thriller
Fired up … Richard Roundtree as John Shaft in the 1971 film. Photograph: Mgm/Kobal/ShutterstockRoundtree became an icon for his role as the ‘black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks’Shaft’s success meant a followup a year later: Shaft’s Big Score!, in which Shaft investigates the murder of a numbers racketeerAnd along came a third in 1973: Shaft in Africa, in which Roundtree has to bust a people-trafficking network.
With John Guillermin taking over from Gordon Parks Jr as director, it didn’t match the original’s commercial successRoundtree took the title role in Man Friday, Peter O’Toole’s Robinson Crusoe, the 1975 ‘revisionist’ adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s novelArguably his most celebrated TV role, Roundtree appeared in the landmark slavery drama Roots, which aired in 1977, as Sam Bennett, who romances Leslie Uggams’ Kizzy in a section set in the early 19th centuryRoundtree played a cop investigating a...
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