Actor Richard Roundtree, best remembered for playing detective John Shaft, has died. Roundtree was 81 and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. Co-stars and those influenced by him have paid ...
He also played John Hancock on Broadway and Tom Cruise's father in ‘All the Right Moves.' ...
The versatile actor played a sadistic killer in "Klute" and was a police officer who reluctantly dealt with Richard Roundtree's private eye character in "Shaft." ...
The new Shaft has been stripped of all political relevance, and is just a private "dick," still embodying an archaic brand of black masculinity. “Shaft” is back, but his time passed long ago. Director ...
Shaft is back once again, and he's more confusing than ever. In the Shaft hitting theaters on June 14, Samuel L. Jackson returns to the role he portrayed in the 2000 movie of the same name, while ...