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Best Movie with Yaphet Kotto

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The legendary character actor turned 77 yesterday, so I'm giving you the top 10 movies where he makes an appearance. Arrange them in order, vote for your favorite, make a write-in entry, whatever you like...

Nothing But a Man (1964)
Five Card Stud (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Across 110th Street (1972)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Blue Collar (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Running Man (1987)
Midnight Run (1988)

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Gonna cheat and put Homicide: the Movie (even though it was for TV) just because that is one of my favourite shows of all time.

Otherwise I would probably pick Alien > Live and Let Die > The Running Man
 
He's great!


Live and Let Die
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MidnightRun
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How was it working on “Midnight Run” with Robert DeNiro?
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That was another difficult shoot. DeNiro is very spontaneous and it always helps to work with an artist like that. But Marty Brest! “Herr Director” shot so many takes of the scenes that I lost all joy in doing the film. It became hard and tedious work. Then he stopped eating during the shoot and became thinner and thinner each day, until he looked like a ghost behind the camera. When I met Marty at the Universal studio with DeNiro, he looked healthy and strong, but as filming went on, he began to turn into someone you’d see in Dachau. It was weird. I got sick and for the whole of the film I had a fever and was under the weather for most of it… I was shocked when it came off so funny… It sure wasn’t funny making it.
 
One of the most underrated movies eva



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I've seen a lot of his movies but it's been too long to remember well enough to pick one role.
 
I'm going with the running man, watched that movie over and over as a kid.
 
alien,the running man,live and let die. great actor and mad as a box of frogs.
 
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