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Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942 in New York) is a African American actor famous for portraying John Shaft in the movie Shaft (1971) and in its two sequels: Shaft's Big Score in 1972, and Shaft in Africa in 1973.
He was a leading man during the early 1970s in the Blaxploitation films. Prior to becoming an actor, he was a model.
He had never stopped working as an actor since the 1970s although his films were not high profile, recently however it seemed he was making a comeback as a cult icon.
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