Gossett told ... graduates would become officers and fighter pilots. At that moment I changed the casting profile for Sgt. Foley and started meeting actors of color. “Lou Gossett came to see ...

Louis Gossett Jr.'s cause of death has been revealed. Gossett's death certificate confirms the 87-year-old "An Officer and a Gentleman" actor died in March of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Yet if you say that Louis Gossett Jr. was and always will be the definitive ... but Gossett’s performance in “An Officer and a Gentleman” finds a sly connection to the audience that makes ...

Louis Gossett Jr., who won an Academy Award for his performance in “An Officer and a Gentleman” and an Emmy for the groundbreaking miniseries “Roots,” has died at age 87, according to a ...

Louis Gossett Jr., who won a supporting actor Oscar for playing the hard-as-nails drill instructor in 1982’s “An Officer and a Gentleman” a few years after winning an Emmy for his role as ...

LOS ANGELES — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting ... toward his Academy Award for "An Officer and a Gentleman." Gossett broke through on the small screen as Fiddler ...

Lou Gossett Jr. was still a teen ... By the time he got to the Beverly Hills Hotel, a squad car had rolled up and the officers handcuffed Gossett to a tree as they tried to figure out what ...

Louis Gossett Jr., who became the first Black man to win the Oscar for best supporting actor for playing a no-nonsense drill sergeant in “An Officer and a Gentleman” (1982), has died ...

Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win an Oscar ... In 1982, Gossett Jr. starred as Marine Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley in "An Officer and a Gentleman," for which he scored an Academy Award ...