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Richard Roundtree
Birthday: July 9, 1942

Birth Place: New Rochelle, New York, USA
Height: 6' 3"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Richard Roundtree. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Blaxploitation superstar Richard Roundtree earned screen immortality during the 1970s as the legendary Shaft, "the black private dick that's the sex machine to all the chicks." Born July 9, 1942, in New Rochelle, NY, Roundtree attended college on a football scholarship but later gave up athletics to pursue an acting career. After touring as a model with the Ebony Fashion Fair, he joined the Negro Ensemble Company's acting workshop program in 1967. He made his film debut in 1970's What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?, but was still an unknown when filmmaker Gordon Parks Sr. cast him as Shaft. The role shot Roundtree to instant fame, launching the blaxploitation genre and proving so successful at the box office that it helped save MGM from the brink of bankruptcy. Thanks to the film's popularity — as well as its two sequels, 1972's Shaft's Big Score! and the following year's Shaft in Africa, and even a short-lived television series — Roundtree became an icon of '70s-era cool, and his image graced countless magazine covers. Outside of the Shaft franchise, he also appeared in films including the 1974 disaster epic Earthquake, 1975's Man Friday, and the blockbuster 1977 TV miniseries Roots. By the end of the decade, however, the blaxploitation movement was a thing of the past, and Roundtree's stardom waned; apart from the 1981 big-budget flop Inchon, he spent the 1980s appearing almost exclusively in TV roles or low-rent, direct-to-video features. Still, he continued working steadily, and in 1995 appeared in David Fincher's smash thriller Seven. The following year he co-starred in the acclaimed Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored, and also teamed with fellow blaxploitation vets Pam Grier and Fred "the Hammer" Williamson in Original Gangstas. In 1997, Roundtree returned to series television in 413 Hope St.

Movie Credits
All the Days Before Tomorrow (2006)
[ Joey Kern ]
Wild Seven (2006)
[ Robert Loggia ][ Robert Forster ]
Painkiller Jane (2005)
[ Tate Donovan ][ Callum Keith Rennie ][ Eric Dane ]
Fear No More (2005)
Brick (2005)
[ Joseph Gordon-Levitt ][ Emilie de Ravin ][ Lukas Haas ][ Matt O'Leary ][ Noah Fleiss ]
Guilty (2004)
Anything You Can Do (2004)
Running to Stand Still (2004)
Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004)
[ David Carradine ]
Vegas Vamps (2003)
[ Daniel Baldwin ][ Tommy 'Tiny' Lister ][ Glenn Plummer ][ Fred Williamson ][ Bernie Casey ]
Breaking Point (2003)
Boat Trip (2002)
[ Will Ferrell ][ Cuba Gooding Jr. ][ Roger Moore ][ Artie Lange ][ Bob Gunton ]
Al's Lads (2002)
[ Warwick Davis ][ Al Sapienza ]
Joe and Max (2002)
[ Til Schweiger ][ David Paymer ][ Leonard Roberts ]
Ansiedad (2001)
Corky Romano (2001)
[ Chris Penn ][ Chris Kattan ][ Peter Berg ][ Fred Ward ][ Vincent Pastore ]
Hawaiian Gardens (2001)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (2001)
[ James Avery ]
Shoot! (2001)
Antitrust (2001)
[ Ryan Phillippe ][ Tim Robbins ][ David Bowie ][ Tygh Runyan ]
Truth Be Told (2000)
What Women Want (2000)
[ Mel Gibson ][ Frank Sinatra ][ Alan Alda ][ Divine ][ Gary Dourdan ]
Heart of the Matter (2000)
Shaft (2000)
[ Christian Bale ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Mekhi Phifer ][ Jeffrey Wright ][ Dan Hedaya ]
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
[ Mykelti Williamson ][ Clifton Powell ]
Akuji the Heartless (1998)
Steel (1997)
[ Judd Nelson ][ Shaquille O'Neal ][ John Hawkes ][ Hill Harper ]
Any Place But Home (1997)
[ Alan Thicke ][ Lee Norris ][ Dale Midkiff ][ Joe Lando ]
George of the Jungle (1997)
[ Brendan Fraser ][ John Cleese ][ Thomas Haden Church ][ Abraham Benrubi ][ Sven-Ole Thorsen ]
Original Gangstas (1996)
[ Robert Forster ][ Paul Winfield ][ Jim Brown ][ Fred Williamson ][ Wings Hauser ]
Ballistic (1995)
[ Michael Jai White ][ Jeff Rector ][ Deke Anderson ]
Theodore Rex (1995)
[ Bud Cort ][ George Newbern ][ Joe Dallesandro ]
Se7en (1995)
[ Brad Pitt ][ Kevin Spacey ][ Morgan Freeman ][ R. Lee Ermey ][ John C. McGinley ]
Bonanza: Under Attack (1995)
[ Leonard Nimoy ][ Dennis Farina ][ Ben Johnson ][ Jack Elam ]
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995)
[ Isaac Hayes ][ Bernie Casey ][ Phill Lewis ]
Shadows of Desire (1994)
[ Adrian Pasdar ][ Joe Lando ][ Brandon Smith ]
Mind Twister (1994)
[ Telly Savalas ]
Sins of the Night (1993)
[ Nick Cassavetes ]
Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
[ Terry O'Quinn ][ David Naughton ][ Robert Rusler ]
Deadly Rivals (1993)
[ Joseph Bologna ][ Francesco Quinn ][ Frank Grillo ]
Body of Influence (1993)
[ Nick Cassavetes ]
Moscacieca (1993)
God Bless the Child (1993)
Second Time Around (1993)
[ Jamie Foxx ]
Bonanza: The Return (1993)
[ Dean Stockwell ][ Ben Johnson ][ Jack Elam ]
Christmas in Connecticut (1992)
[ Arnold Schwarzenegger ][ Kris Kristofferson ][ Tony Curtis ]
Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1992)
Nero come il cuore (1991)
[ Giancarlo Giannini ]
A Time to Die (1991)
[ Jeff Conaway ]
Can't Stop Lovin' That Man! (1991)
Clubba Hubba (1990)
Bad Jim (1990)
[ James Brolin ][ Harry Carey Jr. ][ Bruce Kirby ]
Miami Cops (1989)
The Banker (1989)
[ Jeff Conaway ][ Robert Forster ][ Leif Garrett ]
Though Lovers Be Lost (1989)
Ceremony of Innocence (1989)
Great Expectations (1989)
She's in the Army Now: Part 2 (1989)
Crack House (1989)
[ Jim Brown ][ Jacob Vargas ]
Night Visitor (1989)
[ Elliott Gould ][ Henry Gibson ][ Michael J. Pollard ]
Party Line (1988)
[ Leif Garrett ][ Richard Hatch ]
Maniac Cop (1988)
[ Bruce Campbell ][ Corey Michael Eubanks ]
Daddy Can't Read (1988)
Vendetta, La (1988)
Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988)
Jocks (1987)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Donald Gibb ]
Opposing Force (1986)
[ Tom Skerritt ]
The Fifth Missile (1986)
[ Sam Waterston ][ Robert Conrad ][ David Soul ]
Outlaws (1986)
[ Rod Taylor ]
City Heat (1984)
[ Clint Eastwood ][ Burt Reynolds ][ Rip Torn ][ Blake Edwards ][ Ernie Sabella ]
Killpoint (1984)
The Baron and the Kid (1984)
[ Darren McGavin ][ Claude Akins ]
The Big Score (1983)
[ John Saxon ][ Fred Williamson ][ Bruce Glover ]
Just an Overnight Guest (1983)
Masquerade (1983)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Oliver Reed ][ Rod Taylor ][ Greg Evigan ]
Young Warriors (1983)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Dick Shawn ]
One Down, Two to Go (1982)
[ Jim Brown ][ Fred Williamson ]
Q (1982)
[ David Carradine ][ Michael Moriarty ]
An Eye for an Eye (1981)
[ Christopher Lee ][ Chuck Norris ][ Mako ][ Stuart Pankin ][ Aaron Norris ]
Inchon (1981)
[ Laurence Olivier ][ Omar Sharif ][ Toshirô Mifune ][ Ben Gazzara ]
The Kinfolk/Sis and the Slicker/Moonlight and Moonshine/Affair: Part 2 (1980)
[ Slim Pickens ][ Robert Guillaume ][ Donny Osmond ]
Gypsy Angels (1980)
[ Thomas Haden Church ][ Lyle Waggoner ]
Day of the Assassin (1979)
[ Glenn Ford ][ Chuck Connors ]
A Game for Vultures (1979)
[ Richard Harris ][ Denholm Elliott ][ Ray Milland ]
Escape to Athena (1979)
[ Roger Moore ][ William Holden ][ Elliott Gould ][ David Niven ][ Telly Savalas ]
Portrait of a Hitman (1977)
[ Jack Palance ][ Rod Steiger ]
Diamonds (1975)
[ Robert Shaw ]
Man Friday (1975)
[ Peter O'Toole ]
Earthquake (1974)
[ Charlton Heston ][ Walter Matthau ][ John Williams ][ George Kennedy ][ Lorne Greene ]
Charley One-Eye (1973)
Firehouse (1973)
[ Michael Lerner ][ Vince Edwards ]
Shaft in Africa (1973)
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Embassy (1972)
[ Max von Sydow ][ Chuck Connors ][ Ray Milland ]
Shaft (1971)
What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970)

Trivia

  • Son, John James, b. 3 November 1998
  • Also father of four daughters
  • Has tried to dissassociate himself as a "Black Action Hero" ever since he portrayed his famed role as John Shaft in the three Shaft films. From Miles Quade (the African American motorcycle stuntman in an Evel Knievel mold in Earthquake (1974) to an elderly senior citizen in "Soul Food" (2000), he has came to terms with the fact that he will always be known as Shaft.
  • Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, he is an advocate now and talks to men's groups about early detection.
  • Former Ebony Fashion Fair model
  • Went to Southern Illinois University on a football scholarship.
  • A member of New York's renowned Negro Ensemble Company, one of his best early stage roles was as black heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson (1878-1946) in "The Great White Hope."
  • Sidelines: Photographer and golfer.
  • His performance as John Shaft in "Shaft" (1971) is ranked #62 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

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