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 the cunning Fiddler in “Roots,” has died, the AP reports. He was 87.
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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 the cunning Fiddler in “Roots,” has died, the AP reports. He was 87.
Tremendous actor IMO.
Still like the Iron Eagle movies and Diggstown among others.
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Still like the Iron Eagle movies and Diggstown among others.
Can't remember ever seeing him in something that he wasn't the best part of the movie. Officer and a Gentleman for sure, but one of my favorites is The Principal with Jim Belushi. Gossett was such a bad ass character in that movie.
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God damn it! It sucks getting old and so many people you looked up to as a kid passing away. SCTV was an obsession for me as a teenager.
Flaherty and Candy gone now from that incredible group
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SCTV was the best show this country ever produced and Joe had so many great characters. Count Floyd has been mentioned by Guy Caballero was my favourite. You gotta love a guy who uses a wheelchair for respect.
RIP Joe.
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