Richard Roundtree

Blaxploitation superstar Richard Roundtree earned screen immortality during the 1970s as the legendary Shaft, "the black private dick that's the sex machine to all the chicks." Born July 9, 1942, in N...
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07/08/1942
New Rochelle, NY
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