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Yaphet Kotto

American actor known for his roles in film and television from the 1970s to the 1990s.

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Yaphet Kotto is best known for Starring in iconic films such as Live and Let Die, Alien, and the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street. On Dead or Alive, Yaphet Kotto is listed in the Bond Actors And Villains category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Yaphet Kotto is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Starring in iconic films such as Live and Let Die, Alien, and the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street
Listed under: Bond Actors And Villains

About Yaphet Kotto

His films include the neo-noir action thriller Across 110th Street (1972), the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973), the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), the science-fiction action film The Running Man (1987), and the action comedy Midnight Run (1988). His mother, Gladys Marie, was an American nurse and U.S. Army officer of Panamanian and Antiguan descent. His father, Avraham Kotto (who was, according to his son, originally named Njoki Manga Bell), was a businessman from Cameroon who immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Kotto's father was raised Jewish and his mother converted to Judaism. The couple separated when Kotto was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents. By the age of 16, Kotto was studying acting at the Actors Mobile Theater Studio. At age 19, Kotto made his professional acting debut in Othello. He was a member of the Actors Studio in New York.

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