Live and Let Die James Bond POSTER Glossy Borderless of Various Sizes & Frame Option (A1 size 33.1 x 23.4 Inch / 841 x 594 mm, 01)

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Kotto’s Bond role may have influenced his Emmy-nominated performance as the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the TV movie Raid on Entebbe (1976), while his memorable Parker in Alien (1979) echoed Blue Collar when he and Harry Dean Stanton threaten to strike. Tall and strongly built, Kotto was not a handsome Sidney Poitier, the breakthrough black actor of the 1960s.

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The round white/black objects you may see in the corners are magnets, used to photograph the posters. He may be best remembered for doing just that in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973) – in which he played the Caribbean ruler Dr Kananga and his gangster alter ego, Mr Big, making subtlety even more difficult (“I was too afraid of coming off like Mantan Moreland,” he said, referring to the vaudevillian known for his exaggerated facial expressions) – and in Midnight Run (1988), as the FBI agent Alonzo Mosely, whose chase for his lost ID card drives the plot. He took me to a real voodoo celebration in the middle of Jamaica where clearly no white person had ever been. Asked Cinema Poster Gallery to source some specific posters for my son’s birthday that were not listed on the site and which I couldn’t find anywhere online.Framed posters come with a timeless made to measure custom frame available in black, white or natural oak colour. We offer a huge selection of movie, game or sports posters of all sizes as well as wide range of original gifts for true fans of Star Wars, Harry Potter, comics or the whole Warner Bros family. In the 1985 TV movie Badge of the Assassin, Yaphet Kotto, who has died aged 81, is told by Alex Rocco, playing an NYPD detective, that the only reason he has been assigned to the investigation of a black militant murder of two cops is because he is a black detective. I always felt much more comfortable dancing than I did acting, so it was a perfect combination for me. A flawless poster that will be in the exact same condition as the day it was printed with no marks or fading.

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By that time Kotto had moved to Manila with his Filipino third wife, Tessie Sinahon, with whom he ran an artists’ retreat in southern Leyte. He was a choreographer, and he was rehearsing all the dances for the voodoo sequences," says Seymour.In the longrunning (1993-99) TV series Homicide: Life on the Street, he played the shift commander Lt Al Giardello, whose background, described by the show’s creator, David Simon, as “the unlikeliest Sicilian”, was never explained, simply taken for granted.