He made history in 1983 when he became only the third black actor to win an Oscar.
LOS ANGELES - American actor Louis Gossett Jr, the first black man to win an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor, has died aged 87, a family statement confirmed on March 29 without revealing the cause of death.
The tall, imposing actor made history in 1983 when he became only the third black performer, after Hattie McDaniel for Best Supporting Actress in 1940 and Sidney Poitier for Best Actor in 1964, to win an Oscar. Gossett took home the award for Best Supporting Actor as Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer And A Gentleman.
Gossett’s long and distinguished career began in the 1950s in the theatre and spanned TV and films. He was nominated for eight Emmys and won in 1977 in the groundbreaking TV production Roots, which depicted the brutality of slavery. His first big break came in 1959 when he was cast in the original Broadway production of A Raisin In The Sun with Poitier and actress Ruby Dee. Gossett reprised the role in the 1961 film version of playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s story about segregation.
Two years after winning praise as Sadat, Gossett opted to play a lizard-like alien in the sci-fi thriller Enemy Mine with actor Dennis Quaid.
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