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Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. (born May 27,
1936) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award winning
American actor.
He was born in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn and
attended Abraham Lincoln High School, where he was class
president and an academic and athletic achiever. A sports
injury left him with no choice but to take an acting class,
and at 16 he made his stage debut in the school's production
of You Can't Take It With You. After high school, he attended
New York University, where he was a star basketball player.
Gossett was chosen to play for the New York
Knicks, but he decided his true vocation was acting. He took a
big step into the world of cinema in the Sidney Poitier
vehicle A Raisin in the Sun in 1961.
Gossett made several TV guest appearances early in his career,
including a role as a bounty hunter on the western comedy
Alias Smith and Jones. Gossett has starred in numerous film
productions such as The Deep, An Officer and a Gentleman, Jaws
3-D (as SeaWorld manager Calvin Bouchard), Enemy Mine, the
Iron Eagle series, Toy Soldiers and The Punisher. His role as
Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a
Gentleman (opposite
Richard Gere) showcased his talent and garnered him an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1986, he starred
in another role as a military man in the film Iron Eagle. It
was followed by three sequels.
Gossett's Broadway theatre credits include A Raisin in the Sun
(1959), Golden Boy (1964), and Chicago (2002).
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Gossett also has
performed in other media, including television
productions. In fact, it was his Emmy award-winning role
of "Fiddler" in the 1977 groundbreaking television
miniseries Roots that first brought Gossett great notice.
In 1983, Gossett was cast in the title role in Sadat, a
miniseries which chronicled the life and assassination of
Anwar Sadat. While filming An Officer and a Gentleman,
Gossett was also starring in the 1982–1983 science fiction
series, The Powers of Matthew Star.
Gossett is the voice of the Vortigaunts in the video game
Half-Life 2 and is also the Free Jaffa Leader (Gerak) in
Season 9 of Stargate SG-1.
He also played the role of US President Gerald Fitzhugh in
the movie
Left Behind: World at War.
Recently, Gossett provides the voice of Lucius Fox in The
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