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Acting

Yaphet Kotto

Career: Active from 1964 to 2008, busiest in 1987 and 1989 with 5 main titles each.

Leading roles: 34
top three billing

Average score: 53/100

Highest rated: Homicide: Life on the Street
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 60 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Yaphet Kotto Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Coming of Age
1.3, average 3.0
Family Dynamics
3.6, average 4.8
Wholesome
2.4, average 3.4
Melancholy
3.7, average 4.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 5
Character-Driven 5
Gritty Realism 4
Moral Ambiguity 4
Gritty Crime Thriller 3
Crime Drama 3
Action Thriller 3
Captivity Narrative 2
Power Dynamics 2
Dark Atmosphere 2
80s Thriller 2
Police Procedural 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

90

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

4 titles · average score 47

Witless Protection

28

as Ricardo Bodi

Stiletto Dance

37

as Captain Rick Sands

The Ride

as Carter

Homicide: The Movie

78

as Al Giardello

1990s

20 titles · average score 50

Two If by Sea

26

as FBI Agent O'Malley

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

as Marty Talbot

Dead Badge

as Captain Hunt

The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

as Detective Martin Talbot

Homicide: Life on the Street

89

TV show · as Al Giardello

It's Nothing Personal

as Lt. Tom Riley

Almost Blue

as Terry

Extreme Justice

45

as Larson

seaQuest DSV

61

TV show · as Captain Jack Clayton

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

37

as Doc

Law & Order

74

TV show · as Al Giardello

After the Shock

as William McElroy

1980s

34 titles · average score 56

The Jigsaw Murders

47

as Doctor Tyrone Fillmore

Midnight Run

82

as Alonzo Mosely, Special Agent, F.B.I.

The Running Man

58

as William Laughlin

In Self Defense

as Lt. Tyrell

Desperado

56

as Bede

The Park Is Mine

58

as Eubanks

Eye of the Tiger

37

as J.B. Deveraux

Warning Sign

37

as Major Connolly

Badge of the Assassin

49

as Detective Cliff Fenton NYPD

The Star Chamber

55

as Detective Harry Lowes

A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion

as Denmark Vessey

Brubaker

67

as Dickie Coombes

1970s

19 titles · average score 63

Alien

88

as Parker

Blue Collar

82

as Sam 'Smokey' James

Raid on Entebbe

63

as President Idi Amin - Jr.

The Monkey Hustle

43

as Daddy Foxx

Drum

33

as Blase

Sharks' Treasure

47

as Ben Flynn

Report to the Commissioner

60

as Richard 'Crunch' Blackstone

Friday Foster

54

as Colt Hawkins

Truck Turner

68

as Blue

Live and Let Die

62

as Kananga/Mr. Big

Across 110th Street

78

as Lt. William Pope

Bone

62

as Bone

1960s

11 titles · average score 65

Hawaii Five-O

48

TV show · as Lance Corporal John T. Auston

The Name of the Game

73

TV show · as Wyman Jackson

The Thomas Crown Affair

68

as Carl

5 Card Stud

61

as Little George

Mannix

71

TV show · as Gabe Johnson / Gabriel Dillon

The High Chaparral

71

TV show · as Sgt. Major Creason

Cowboy in Africa

TV show · as Musa

Tarzan

70

TV show

The Big Valley

69

TV show · as Lobo Brown / Damien

Nothing But a Man

76

as Jocko

Daniel Boone

47

TV show · as Luke / Jonah

1950s

2 titles · average score 74

Bonanza

73

TV show · as Child Barnett

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Piney Biggs