13th will mark 50 years since “The Rockford Files,” the Emmy-winning crime drama starring James Garner premiered ... Bacall to Isaac Hayes and Louis Gossett Jr., my love of “Rockford ...

Louis Gossett Jr. died following a battle with COPD ... where he became friends with James Dean. Gossett – who added Junior to his name to honor his father – also studied acting alongside ...

Louis Gossett Jr died from a chronic lung condition aged ... he was known to be friendly with James Dean and studied acting with Marilyn Monroe, Martin Landau and Steve McQueen at an offshoot ...

When Louis Gossett ... appreciation of Gossett’s nearly 70-year career: “Skin Game.” Released in 1971, “Skin Game” starred Gossett as Jason and James Garner as Quincy, two con men ...

As movie fans, co-stars and fellow actors mourn the loss of Louis Gossett ... some of Gossett’s best work was in comedy. This 1971 western co-starring James Garner shows just how good he was ...

Gossett went on to play an angry man living in a run-down apartment building in Hal Ashby's The Landlord (1970), a con artist opposite James Garner in the slavery-era Skin Game (1971), a drug-dealing ...

Louis Gossett ... years later. Gossett went on to play an angry man living in a run-down apartment building in Hal Ashby's The Landlord (1970), a con artist opposite James Garner in the slavery ...

Roots actor Louis Gossett Jr won the Best Supporting actor at the ... he defeated fellow nominees Charles Durning, John Lithgow, James Mason and Robert Preston. Susan Sarandon and Christopher ...

Louis Gossett Jr., who won a supporting actor Oscar for ... and to actress Cyndi James Gossett (1987-92). Both of these marriages ended in divorce. Survivors include a son, producer Satie Gossett ...

Louis Gossett Jr., the tough guy with a sensitive side who ... Gossett accepted a dramatics scholarship to NYU, became pals with James Dean at the Actors Studio in New York and made his onscreen ...