Thalmus Rasulala

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BIRTHDAY

November 15, 1939

Miami, Florida, USA

DIED

October 09, 1991

RECENT CREDITS

Mom and Dad Save the World (FILM) Jul. 24, 1992

Life on the Edge (FILM) Jun. 19, 1992

New Jack City (FILM) Jan. 1, 1991

Lambada (FILM) Mar. 16, 1990

The Package (FILM) Aug. 25, 1989

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BIOGRAPHY

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Tall, handsome, commanding black actor with a resonant voice who began his career in the 1960s as a musical comedy performer on the New York stage under the name Jack Crowder. Rasulala appeared in the off-Broadway musicals "Fly, Blackbird" with Robert Guillaume and "The Fantasticks" and won a Theater World Award for his Broadway debut as Cornelius Hackl in the Pearl Bailey production of "Hello, Dolly!" (1976). He made his film debut in "The Out-of-Towners" (1970) and throughout the 1970s and 80s was featured in the blaxploitation films "Blacula" (1972), "Bucktown" (1975) and the actioners "Cool Breeze" (1972), "Willie Dynamite" (1974), and "New Jack City" (1991). He appeared on the TV series "What's Happening!!" and gave his most notable performances in the TV movie, "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" (1974) and as Kunta Kinte's father, Omoro, in the mini-series "Roots" (1977).

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