Richard Roundtree (born July 9, 1942) is an American actor. Roundtree is noted as being “the first black action hero” for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019. For his performance in the original film, Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972.
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Richard Roundtree Biography / Wiki
| Name | Richard Roundtree |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | New Rochelle, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | July 09, 1942 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 80 |
| Deathday |
Richard Roundtree Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Shaft | John Shaft | 1971-06-25 | Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter…. |
| Shaft’s Big Score! | John Shaft | 1972-06-08 | John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client…. |
| Shaft in Africa | John Shaft | 1973-06-14 | Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring…. |
| Charley-One-Eye | The Black Man | 1973-04-18 | A black Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats o… |
| Getting Even | Dundee | 1988-05-24 | After being betrayed by a fellow Marine and spending five years in a POW camp, homeless Vietnam vet Roy Evans reunites with his commander, Dundee, and… |
| Embassy | Dick Shannon | 1972-03-02 | A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA…. |
| Soul in Cinema: Filming ‘Shaft’ on Location | Self | 1971-06-02 | A behind the scenes look at the filming of the movie Shaft (1971). The movie’s director, Gordon Parks is seen directing a couple of fight scenes which… |
| Firehouse | Shelly Forsythe | 1973-01-02 | Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave … |
| Miami Cops | Gamble | 1989-04-08 | Richard Roundtree takes on thugs on the streets of Miami…. |
| Young Warriors | Sergeant John Austin | 1983-08-28 | After a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, her brother takes up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes… |
| Man Friday | Friday | 1975-03-04 | Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Cruso… |
| Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight | Samuel Stark | 1992-01-05 | Don Wilson returns to the screen as a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice…. |
| Diamonds | Archie | 1975-10-22 | Charles Hodgson is a British aristocrat who decides to become a thief as a way of getting at his twin brother, Earl, a security expert who has built a… |
| Bad Jim | July | 1990-04-25 | A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid’s horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself…. |
| Set Apart | J.T. | 2009-01-19 | Four troubled, inner city kids get a western-style shot at redemption when a cowboy pastor invites them to his country ranch and offers them a chance … |
| Game for Vultures | Gideon Marunga | 1980-09-17 | The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man…. |
| Killpoint | Agent Bill Bryant | 1984-12-03 | An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to… |
| Retreat! | Henshaw | 2012-05-25 | Inspired by war films from the 1950’s, Retreat! tells the story of nine U.S. Soldiers who were forced to retreat into unknown territories deep in the … |
| Diary of a Single Mom | Lou Bailey | 2009-01-27 | Ocean (Monica Calhoun), a 27-year-old highly-motivated mother has found her calling in managing a neighborhood apartment building along with the resid… |
| Hawaiian Gardens | M.O. | 2001-12-06 | A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, t… |
| Wild Seven | Lee Marvin | 2006-01-01 | In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus … |
| Steel | Uncle Joe | 1997-08-15 | When a renegade military reject puts new superweapons in dangerous hands, John Henry Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome elec… |
| An Eye for an Eye | Capt. Stevens | 1981-08-14 | Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department’s Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He dec… |
| Crack House | Lt. Johnson | 1989-11-10 | Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have g… |
| Portrait of a Hitman | Coco Morrell | 1979-05-11 | A professional hitman is hired to kill a brain surgeon. However, it turns out that not only are he and the surgeon old friends, but they are both in l… |
| Painkiller Jane | Colonel Watts | 2005-12-10 | Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. She uses her abilities to fight crime while eludin… |
| A Time to Die | Captain Ralph Phipps | 1991-12-05 | A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who framed her for drug possession and during her invest… |
| Whatever She Wants | Theodore Wolf | 2010-02-02 | Whatever She Wants is the story about one woman s determination to rediscover who she really is… Vivian Wolf (Vivica A. Fox) has suffered one heartb… |
| Body of Influence | Harry Reams | 1993-04-21 | A successful psychiatrist has his world turned upside-down by the appearance of a mystery woman who cannot recall her own past…… |
| Haunting of the Mary Celeste | Tulls | 2020-10-23 | Rachel, a concerned researcher, and her team have set out to sea to prove that the disappearance of a family and crew from a merchant ship was for rea… |
| Men Cry in the Dark | 2003-10-21 | The future has never looked better for Derrick Reed. Bachelorhood is great, he has a group of guys he can really call friends, and he’s the publisher … | |
| Moving On | 2023-03-17 | Two old friends reconnect at their friend’s funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier…. | |
| Thelma | Deceived by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, a 90-year-old woman sets out on a quest to reclaim what was taken from her…. | ||
| Q | Powell | 1982-09-08 | New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat … |
| Opposing Force | Stafford | 1986-08-01 | A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group parachutes onto a remote island, where their obje… |
| Maniac Cop | Commissioner Pike | 1988-05-13 | In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop’s uniform. Soon t… |
| The Confidant | Claude | 2010-08-24 | The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are … |
| Christmas in Connecticut | Prescott | 1992-04-13 | Elizabeth is the star of a successful cooking show and author of several cookbooks. But when her manager, Alexander sees forest ranger Jefferson, who … |
| One Down, Two to Go | Ralph | 1982-11-19 | A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy…. |
| The Big Score | Gordon | 1983-03-17 | A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he’s… |
| Joe and Max | Jack Blackburn | 2002-03-03 | True story of boxers Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and their enduring friendship…. |
| The Fifth Missile | Cmdr. Frederick Bryce | 1986-02-23 | The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison’s effects is … |
| Sins of the Night | Les | 1993-12-07 | Jack Nietsche is a hardened ex-con who now works for an P.I. firm, run by Ted Quincy. Quincy’s ex-lover is Roxie, now wife to godfather Tony Falcone. … |
| Gypsy Angels | Dr. Carlson | 1990-06-08 | Vanna White is a stripper who falls for a stunt pilot who develops amnesia after a crash…. |
| Al’s Lads | Boom-Boom | 2002-06-29 | Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang…. |
| Deadly Rivals | Agent Peterson | 1993-06-30 | A physicist involved in classified military research meets a woman who he begins to suspect is a spy. Her sister is involved with the mob and one of t… |
| Shadows of Desire | Dunc | 1994-09-20 | A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother…. |
| Bonanza: Under Attack | Jacob | 1995-01-15 | After a rogue band of Pinkerton detectives led by ruthless Charley Siringo bushwhacks reformed outlaw Frank James, he seeks sanctuary on the Ponderosa… |
| Collar | Alonzo Sparks | 2015-01-01 | While his life begins to crumble, TJ Williams’s fast fading future is bartered for political gain by his former best friend and boss, a mayor with her… |
| George of the Jungle | Kwame | 1997-07-15 | Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable k… |
| Antitrust | Lyle Barton | 2001-01-11 | A computer programmer’s dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatc… |
| Ladies of the House | Stan | 2008-10-18 | When three women are asked to refurbish a house for their church, they find that they must break down their own self-perception in order to build some… |
| Jocks | Chip Williams | 1986-11-14 | The coach of a college tennis team is given an ultimatum: put together a winning team, or else…. |
| Party Line | Captain Barnes | 1988-10-01 | A rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and murders them. A detective is assigned to find the ki… |
| Inchon | Sgt. Augustus Henderson | 1982-05-04 | A noisy and absurd re-telling of the great 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War which was masterminded by General Douglas MacArthur…. |
| Day of the Assassin | Fessler | 1979-12-15 | Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah’s fortune and mysterious document t… |
| Max Havoc: Curse Of The Dragon | Tahsi | 2004-11-10 | A former kickboxer returns to his fighting ways when he encounters a gang in Guam…. |
| Mind Twister | Frank Webb | 1994-03-16 | Two former exotic dancers devise a plot to expose a physciatrist as the murderer of their friend…. |
| Point of Entry | Miles Porter | 2007-11-03 | A young woman named Katherine Alden becomes the unwanted victim of her new handsome next door neighbor Caleb, after her and her husband and son moves … |
| Shaft | John Shaft, Sr. | 2019-06-14 | JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he … |
| Bonanza: The Return | Jacob Briscoe | 1993-11-24 | A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa…. |
| What Men Want | Skip Davis | 2019-02-08 | Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues…. |
| Earthquake | Miles Quade | 1974-01-01 | Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California…. |
| The Banker | Lloyd | 1989-12-20 | High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at t… |
| Escape to Athena | Nat Judson | 1979-05-21 | During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ine… |
| Nero come il cuore | Rod | 1994-01-05 | … |
| Any Place But Home | Gil Oberman | 1997-01-01 | … |
| City Heat | Dehl Swift | 1984-12-05 | Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye na… |
| Corky Romano | Howard Shuster | 2001-10-12 | Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to inf… |
| Angel III: The Final Chapter | Lt. Doniger | 1988-11-10 | Molly is now a freelance photographer in New York. She runs across a woman at an art show that looks familiar. She goes to L.A. to find out that this … |
| What Do You Say to a Naked Lady | Interracial Couple | 1970-02-18 | Candid Camera’s Allen Funt secretely tapes people’s reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity in unusual situations, such as when a naked young w… |
| Original Gangstas | Slick | 1996-05-10 | A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police informati… |
| Amityville: A New Generation | Pauli | 1993-09-29 | Photographer Keyes is given an old mirror from an homeless person he photographs on the street, takes it home and gives it a friend. He doesn’t know y… |
| Vegas Vampires | Rick Apping | 2003-12-12 | A series of brutal murders at several top nightclubs have left the Las Vegas police department baffled. But when they discover that the killers are a … |
| A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks | Self | 2021-06-18 | This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic development… |
| Shaft | “Uncle” John Shaft | 2000-06-15 | New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail… |
| Theodore Rex | Commissioner Lynch | 1995-12-14 | In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehis… |
| A Family Reunion Christmas | Jebidiah McKellan | 2019-12-09 | M’Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson…. |
| Speed Racer | Ben Burns | 2008-05-07 | Speed Racer is the tale of a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, he must team up with… |
| Night Visitor | Captain Crane | 1989-05-12 | A teenager insists he saw a satanist kill the call girl next door, and tries to prove it…. |
| Nationtime | Self | 1972-11-01 | A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the politi… |
| Brick | Assistant V.P. Trueman | 2006-03-31 | A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend…. |
| Ballistic | Harold | 1995-02-28 | Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! She is suspended from the force after a witn… |
| Se7en | Dist. Atty. Martin Talbot | 1995-09-22 | Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the “seven deadly sins” in this dark and haunting film t… |
| Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored | Cleve | 1996-01-26 | This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on eac… |
| Boat Trip | Felicia’s Dad | 2002-10-01 | Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately, they’ve mistakenly been booked on a gay cruise…. |
| BaadAsssss Cinema | Self | 2002-08-14 | With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than… |
| Final Approach | Gary Markash | 2008-05-24 | FBI hostage rescue team leader Jack Bender has been sacked for not being a team player, and months later he finds himself in the ultimate hostage nigh… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Django Unchained | Thanks | 2012-12-25 | With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner…. |
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