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Another good actor leaves the stage or screen in this case
There are actors that aren't stars but stick in your consciousness after you've seen them in a particular role.
He was one of them after he played Idi Amin in Raid on Entebbe.
Absolutely loved him in Alien with Harry Dean Stanton as a double act.
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sad isn't it, another I thought, "who", then clicked on your link,saw the Bond pic, and thought "oh him, he was great" :(
Interesting article about what turned out to be big roles he turned down.
https://admars32.wordpress.com/
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RIP Yaphet, star of my favourite Bond movie.
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Aside from his acting roles, one thing I always remember was that at one stage he tried to claim he was related to Edward VII and therefore English royalty.
No, really.
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Veteran character actor Yaphet Kotto... claimed in a 1997 autobiography that he was African royalty. According to Kotto, he is the great-great-grandson of King Alexander Bell, who ruled the Douala region of Cameroon in the late 19th century, before the West African nation became colonized by Germany, France, and Britain. According to Kotto, his father, who had converted to Judaism in Cameroon, emigrated to Harlem in the 1920s and changed his name to Abraham Kotto, adopting a relative’s surname. And while Kotto may be descended from West African royalty, he claims his family has a touch of English nobility as well. He alleges King Bell’s daughter had an affair with Britain’s Edward VII while he was the Prince of Wales in the late 19th century. Unfortunately for Kotto, however, the British royal family has denied that claim and stated, “We can confirm that Edward VII never visited Cameroon, nor do we have any record of an alleged relationship between Edward VII and Princess Nakande.”
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