Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1937 in New York City) is an African-American actor. His father was a Cameroonian Jew and Kotto is a practising Jew by faith.

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Kotto got his start in acting on Broadway, where he appeared in The Great White Hope, among other things. His film debut was in 1963 in an uncredited role in 4 For Texas, but his first big break came in Nothing But a Man in 1964. Kotto landed the role of the James Bond villain Mr. Big in Live and Let Die. Kotto also starred in Alien.

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African-American: African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans, Black Americans, or simply blacks are an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to West and Central Africa. Many African Americans have European and/or Native American ancestry as well....

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