Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto

Nascimento : 1939-11-16, New York City, New York, U.S.A

Morte : 2021-03-15

História

Yaphet Frederick Kotto was an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction and horror film Alien (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction and action film The Running Man (1987). He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973). He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller Midnight Run (1988) as FBI Agent Alonzo Mosley.

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Filmes

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Himself
A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," and many more.
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Self (archive footage)
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
Uma Testemunha Nada Protegida
Ricardo Bodi
The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago but are later found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her
The Beast Within: Making 'Alien'
(archive footage)
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them one by one.
James Bond e seus Melhores Momentos
Mr. Big / Dr. Kananga (archive footage) (uncredited)
Um documentário sobre os 10 mais eletrizantes momentos da franquia James Bond 007 em seus 40 anos de história. Nesta obra, estão os mais desafiantes momentos do agente, seus sinistros vilões e maravilhosas mulheres. Há também entrevistas com elenco e críticos, lembrando seus momentos favoritos. Apresentação de Roger Moore.
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.
Stiletto Dance
Captain Rick Sands
Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.
Homicide: The Movie
Al Giardello
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Inside 'Live and Let Die'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"
The Defenders: Payback
Judge Williams
Television movie remake of the 1960s courtroom drama series, "The Defenders." After the death of his eldest son and his partner in the law firm of Preston and Preston, senior partner, Lawrence Preston enlists his granddaughter, M.J, a former prosecutor, and his other son Don, a law professor, to continue the work of ensuring that every individual accused of a crime is entitled to a proper defense. In this telefilm, a father murders the rapist of his young daughter after the man is released from prison and moves back to his old neighborhood. The Prestons take the case even though the father is unrepentent and unwilling to offer the attorneys any help in finding legally mitigating circumstances for his actions.
Corações Roubados
FBI Agent O'Malley
Frank O'Brien (Denis Leary) é um ladrão que pretende fazer um último golpe, roubando uma pintura de quatro milhões de dólares. Para acompanhá-lo no roubo, ele leva sua namorada Roz (Sandra Bullock), uma nova-iorquina de descendência judia, cujo sonho é se assentar e ter filhos, por isso ela insiste que este seja o último trabalho ilegal de Frank. Em uma sexta-feira, o roubo é efetuado e como Frank planeja entregar a peça no domingo, transforma o trabalho em um fim de semana de fuga à dois. Para isso, eles invadem uma casa em New England e convencem os vizinhos de que são amigos dos donos. Só que a situação complica quando o chefe do crime para quem Frank trabalha descobre sobre o golpe, um agente do FBI tenta recuperar a pintura e Roz se encanta por um dos moradores da cidade.
The World of James Bond
Elizabeth Hurley hosts a one hour documentary on the history of the James Bond film series to tie in with the seventeenth Bond film, GoldenEye.
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Marty Talbot
Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami mafia.
Dead Badge
Captain Hunt
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.
Sob o Domínio dos Aliens
Ressler
A Terra é invadida por parasitas alienígenas, conhecidos como "lesmas", que andam nas costas das pessoas e controlam suas mentes. Um trio de agentes do governo americano tenta frustrar isso.
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Detective Martin Talbot
The Corpse had a Familiar Face is a 1994 American TV-Movie with Elizabeth Montgomery, playing Edna Buchanan, a Miami's criminal journalist.
Almost Blue
Terry
The young jazz saxophonist Morris Poole is at the height of his career. When his wife dies he is almost overcome by grief and blames himself. When after a while he finds a new love, he ends up in a situation that reminds him of his wife's mysterious death.
Extreme Justice
Larson
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop. Police brutality is not a known term for the division and they will stop at nothing to get the job done, even if it means murder.
The American Clock
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Intent to Kill
Captain Jackson
A young policewoman relentlessly tries to bring down a ruthless drug kingpin whom plots his own agenda for his drug distribution empire.
Chrome Soldiers
Perry Beach
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
A Hora do Pesadelo 6: Pesadelo Final - A Morte de Freddy
Doc
Justamente quando você achava que estaria a salvo indo dormir, Freddy Krueger retorna para assombrar seus sonhos e congelar seu sangue! Maggie Burroughs é uma garota psicologicamente atormentada por pesadelos recorrentes. Até que ela encontra um outro paciente com os mesmos sonhos horripilantes. Lisa, então, decide procurar por respostas, e acaba chegando à casa da rua Elm – onde um Mal que desafia o além-túmulo está prestes a derramar-se sobre o mundo.
Hangfire
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.
After the Shock
William McElroy
On October 17 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked San Francisco. Presented here are some of the stories of the brave members of the public and emergency services who rescued people who were trapped in the rubble in houses or on the freeway.
Tripwire
Lee Pitt
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo (David Warner) hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest (Terence Knox). During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
Ministry of Vengeance
Mr. Whiteside
David Miller is a Vietnam vet who renounced violence and became a minister after he was forced to blow up a Viet Cong kid in self defense, but years later, when David's wife Gail and daughter Kim are killed by a group of terrorists led by Ali Aboud, in a massacre at an airport in Rome, Italy, David is devastated. Going against his faith, David sets out to find and kill Ali Aboud.
Prime Target
Gilmore Brown
An inspector is researching a number of murders on police officers in New York. During his research he starts suspecting that the serial killer is a police officer as well.
The Jigsaw Murders
Doctor Tyrone Fillmore
A jigsaw puzzle is the key in a detective's investigation of a gruesome murder.
A Whisper to a Scream
Jules Tallard
A young girl who was frustrated in her desire to become acrtress starts to work for a telephone-sex company. There she meets a fascinating man who has an obsession for music related with crime.
Terminal Entry
Col. Styles
The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. Believing it's a game they unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
Fuga à Meia-Noite
Alonzo Mosely
No caminho de Nova York a Los Angeles, um caçador de recompensas (Robert de Niro) conduz um contador, acusado de fraude, que trabalhava para a máfia. Durante a viagem, eles serão perseguidos pelo FBI e por mafiosos.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel
General Sorenson
Perry is sueing a gutter trash newspaper that is running a story about a love affair between him and Della. The editor also has "dirt" files on an Army General, his banker and other "clients". All of them make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party but the person that hated him most is a female reporter who the editor had just fired from the paper for attempting to write a serious story. She threatens him and soon after the editor is found, floating in his pool, shot. The reporter is arrested for the crime and Perry, who has a personal stake in this matter, with the aid of Della and Paul set out to solve the mystery. But the other suspects just want the case over with and will go to any lengths to protect their pasts and their secrets
O Gladiador
William Laughlin
Século 21. Os EUA estão sob cruel regime totalitário. Os livros foram queimados, os discos destruídos, as escolas fechadas e toda liberdade pessoal abolida. Neste submundo estarrecedor, só uma relíquia do Século 20 foi preservada: A TV. Única forma de diversão de uma população oprimida e fria. The Running Man é o programa mais popular, uma espécie de jogo de gato e rato mortal e sanguinário, onde o único valioso prêmio é a sobrevivência. Ben Richards, um rebelde perseguido, vai provar que nem sempre o fugitivo é o perdedor. Contra adversários mortalmente curiosos, ele vai defender sua vida frente às câmeras de TV.
In Self Defense
Lt. Tyrell
A witness is terrorized by the killer against whom she testified.
Desperado
Bede
Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
Pretty Kill
Harris
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes while at the same time having to deal with his girlfriend's mental problems, which are gradually deteriorating into a split personality.
Eye of the Tiger
J.B. Deveraux
Buck is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.
Harem
Agha Kislar
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference between captor and captive dissolves.
Nova York - Terra de Ninguém
Eubanks
Após a morte de um companheiro de guerra, ex-soldado utiliza sua habilidade com armas para sitiar o Central Park, em Nova Iorque, em protesto contra a indiferença do governo em relação aos veteranos de guerra.
Sinal de Perigo
Major Connolly
O Bio Tek, um suposto centro de pesquisa agrícola, é na verdade um laboratório ultra-secreto para o desenvolvimento de armas biológicas. Quando acontece um sério acidente, que libera uma bactéria mortal, o sistema de segurança do complexo lacra o prédio com várias pessoas dentro. Lá acontece uma luta pela sobrevivência, pois todos os contaminados antes de morrerem se tornam loucos assassinos. Connolly (Yaphet Kotto), um agente do governo, tenta controlar a situação enquanto fala várias mentiras para esconder os fatos. Cal Morse (Sam Waterston), o xerife local, quer descobrir a verdade e, se possível, salvar Joanie Morse (Kathleen Quinlan), sua mulher, que trabalha como segurança no laboratório. Assim ele procura Dan Fairchild (Jeffrey DeMunn), um pesquisador que já trabalhou na Bio Tek, e juntos tentam entender por qual motivo Joanie não foi contaminada. Se conseguirem a resposta poderão fabricar uma antitoxina, caso contrário as conseqüências serão imprevisíveis.
Playing with Fire
Fire Chief Walker
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
O Prêmio do Assassino
Detective Cliff Fenton NYPD
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Women of San Quentin
Sgt. Therman Patterson
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
For Love and Honor
Sgt. China Bell
A military drama set on a Texas base focuses on the ups and downs of young paratroopers, who, while they're gearing up for possible combat assignments, often find themselves entangled in love affairs.
O Esquadrão da Justiça
Detective Harry Lowes
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Fighting Back
Ivanhoe Washington
An Italian deli owner forms a vigilante group to rid his Philadelphia neighborhood of street punks.
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
Denmark Vessey
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
Rage!
Ernie
In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.
Brubaker
Richard 'Dickie' Coombes
Na prisão sulista de Wakefield, Henry Brubaker, o novo diretor, chega disfarçado de prisioneiro e assim convive com os detentos, podendo apurar livremente todos os tipos de corrupções e ilegalidades que imperam na instituição. Quando ele se revela encontra uma oposição velada, pois suas idéias reformistas contrariam vários interesses políticos e financeiros.
Othello
Othello
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Alien - O 8.º Passageiro
Parker
Quando a tripulação do rebocador espacial Nostromo responde a um sinal de socorro de um planeta árido, descobre uma forma de vida mortal que se reproduz em hospedeiros humanos. Agora, a tripulação tem de lutar pela sobrevivência e impedir que a criatura chegue à Terra. Realizado por Ridley Scott e com a participação de sucesso de Sigourney Weaver, este primeiro filme lendário da saga Alien vai deixá-lo sem fôlego.
Vivendo na Corda Bamba
Smokey James
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Resgate Fantástico
President Idi Amin - Jr.
A operação de resgate dos passageiros e tripulantes de um avião sequestrado por palestinos. Com a velada simpatia do ditador africano Idi Amin Dada, os terroristas permanecem em Uganda, exigindo a libertação de 53 palestinos presos pelos israelenses em troca dos reféns. Baseado em fatos reais.
The Monkey Hustle
Daddy Foxx
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
Mandingo II: A Revolta dos Escravos
Blase
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Crunch
Richard "Crunch" Blackstone
Detective goes after drug-dealers in Manhattan.
Friday Foster
Colt Hawkins
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
Sharks' Treasure
Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure
Investigação Perigosa
Richard 'Crunch' Blackstone
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Truck Turner
Blue
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Com 007 Viva e Deixe Morrer
Kananga/Mr. Big
O tráfico de heroína e a morte de agentes secretos colocam frente a frente James Bond (Roger Moore) e Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto), o chefão do crime em Nova York. Sua organização age impulsionada pelas visões de Solitaire (Jane Seymour), uma cartomante com poderes especiais. Quando conhece Bond, Solitaire perde os seus poderes e é condenada a morte em um ritual vudu.
A Máfia Nunca Perdoa
Lt. William Pope
Quando três homens negros vestidos como policiais roubam uma grande quantia de um local controlado pela máfia, a cidade é mergulhada em uma guerra entre grupos rivais. Agora, o policial Mattelli (Anthony Quinn), junto com o novato Pope, corre contra o tempo para encontrar os culpados antes que eles sejam executados.
The Limit
Producer
In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods with his white partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan. One afternoon, Mark has a run-in with a gang known as The Virgins, whose leader, Big Donnie, is taken aback by the policeman's understanding, dignified demeanor despite the gang's constant derision. When Mark advises Donnie not to continue to allow his heavily pregnant girl friend, Judy, to ride a motorbike, the gang leader agrees. Later, after Donnie actively seeks Mark out for advice, the Virgins' second-in-command, Kenny, reacts with outrage.
The Limit
Story
In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods with his white partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan. One afternoon, Mark has a run-in with a gang known as The Virgins, whose leader, Big Donnie, is taken aback by the policeman's understanding, dignified demeanor despite the gang's constant derision. When Mark advises Donnie not to continue to allow his heavily pregnant girl friend, Judy, to ride a motorbike, the gang leader agrees. Later, after Donnie actively seeks Mark out for advice, the Virgins' second-in-command, Kenny, reacts with outrage.
The Limit
Director
In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods with his white partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan. One afternoon, Mark has a run-in with a gang known as The Virgins, whose leader, Big Donnie, is taken aback by the policeman's understanding, dignified demeanor despite the gang's constant derision. When Mark advises Donnie not to continue to allow his heavily pregnant girl friend, Judy, to ride a motorbike, the gang leader agrees. Later, after Donnie actively seeks Mark out for advice, the Virgins' second-in-command, Kenny, reacts with outrage.
The Limit
Mark Johnson
In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods with his white partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan. One afternoon, Mark has a run-in with a gang known as The Virgins, whose leader, Big Donnie, is taken aback by the policeman's understanding, dignified demeanor despite the gang's constant derision. When Mark advises Donnie not to continue to allow his heavily pregnant girl friend, Judy, to ride a motorbike, the gang leader agrees. Later, after Donnie actively seeks Mark out for advice, the Virgins' second-in-command, Kenny, reacts with outrage.
Bone
Bone
A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
Man and Boy
Nate Hodges
At the beginning of the 19th century a man and his son settle in Arizona which used to be a frontier state and full of criminals at that time.
Night Chase
Ernie Green
A man fleeing the scene after shooting his wife's lover forms an unexpected relationship with the tough cab driver he hires to drive him to the Mexican border.
A Libertação de Lord Byron Jones
Sonny Boy Mosby
Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
5 Card Stud
Little George
Quando um apostador é flagrado roubando na mesa de pôquer de Van Morgan, o trapaceiro é enforcado pelos oponentes. Morgan deixa a cidade, mas retorna ao saber que os agressores começaram a morrer um a um.
Crown, O Magnífico
Carl
McQueen é o personagem título, Crown, um milionário mas também especialista ladrão de bancos. Num de seus assaltos leva três milhões de dólares. Até que é apanhado de surpresa quando uma agente de seguros (Dunaway) aproxima-se dele, simulando um romance, para tentar reaver o dinheiro. O final guarda surpresas.
Nothing But a Man
Jocko
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.