Richard Roundtree played the memorable private eye in 'Shaft' and also the 1976 ABC miniseries 'Roots.'
“Richard’s work and career served as a turning point for African American leading men in film,” McMinn, who was his manager since 1987, said in ain 2009. “I heard the cancer part first — it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn’t believe it.”
The actor raised awareness about male breast cancer, and traveled the country to share his experiences. “Not talking about my cancer was really tough,” he says. “And now that I do talk about it all the time, it’s really become a backhanded blessing. I was getting on a plane recently and a flight attendant ran up to me and said ‘You saved my husband’s life.'” Roundtree said her husband agreed to get a lump in his chest checked out after she showed him an article about the actor.
The revered actor also played a father of a Black Mississippi family facing inequality in the south for 1996’sMAGA Diehards Are Furious Jenna Ellis Pleaded Guilty After Raising $200K, adapted from the 1970 novel by Ernest Tidyman. The MGM release garnered $12 million in ticket sales off of a $500,000 production budget, helping save the then-struggling studio from bankruptcy.n 1973. Roundtree reprised his role for a 1973 CBS series that lasted seven episodes. When Samuel L.
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