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Austin Stoker
Trinidad, West Indies
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police offi…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre. Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby (1974), Combat Cops (1974), and Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Horror High (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Victory at Entebbe (1976), and the 1977 television mini-series Roots. Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13. Stoker died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on October 7, 2022, his 92nd birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Stoker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Movie Self
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2019
3 from Hell
Movie Newscaster Gibson
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2014
Shhhh
Movie Dave
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2010
Machete Joe
Movie Raymond Sinclair
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2008
End of an Epic: The Final Battle
Movie Self
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2006
Big John
Movie Self
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2001
Mach 2
Movie Edwards
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2000
Two Shades of Blue
Movie Security Guard
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1998
The Wild Thornberrys
TV show Poacher #2 (voice)
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1996
Arli$$
TV show African Rabbi
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1989
Another Time, Another Place
Movie Luther
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1988
Uninvited
Movie Carribean Officer
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1984
Airwolf
TV show Investigator
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1982
Time Walker
Movie Dr. Ken Melrose
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1981
Falcon Crest
TV show Bailiff
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1981
Terror Among Us
Movie D.A. Rick Clayburn
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1977
The Incredible Hulk
TV show Rev. Jack Williams
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1977
The Man with the Power
Movie Carter
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1977
Roots
TV show Virgil Harvey
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1976
Victory at Entebbe
Movie Dr. Ghota
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1976
Assault on Precinct 13
Movie Ethan Bishop
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1976
Riding with Death
Movie Dive Officer
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1975
Return to the Planet of the Apes
TV show Jeff Allen (voice)
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1975
Sheba, Baby
Movie Brick Williams
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1975
S.W.A.T.
TV show
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1974
Abby
Movie Det. Cass Potter
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1974
Airport 1975
Movie Air Force Sergeant
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1974
The Zebra Killer
Movie Lt. Frank Savage
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1974
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV show Charles Quinten
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1973
Kojak
TV show Det. Douglas
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1973
Horror High
Movie Lieutenant Bozeman
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1973
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Movie MacDonald
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1971
Monty Nash
TV show Cole Walker
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1970
The Aquarians
Movie Bogan
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1969
Love, American Style
TV show Henry
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Movie Brother Malcolm
