Austin Stoker
Nascimento : 1943-10-07, Trinidad, West Indies
Morte : 2022-10-07
História
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Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre.
Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby (1974), Combat Cops (1974), and Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Horror High (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Victory at Entebbe (1976), and the 1977 television mini-series Roots.
Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13.
Stoker died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on October 7, 2022, his 92nd birthday.
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Self
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Newscaster Gibson
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Dave
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Raymond Sinclair
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Himself
French documentary on the films of John Carpenter
Edwards
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Security Guard
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Luther
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Carribean Officer
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Dr. Ken Melrose
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D.A. Rick Clayburn
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Dr. Ghota
Filme relata a operação israelense que resgatou um avião sequestrado por palestinos em Uganda.
Ethan Bishop
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Brick Williams
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Det. Cass Potter
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Air Force Sergeant
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Lt. Frank Savage
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Lieutenant Bozeman
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MacDonald
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Bogan
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Brother Malcolm
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