Yaphet Kotto
Actor
Films to Rent
- Across 110th Street (1972)
- Dir. Barry Shear
Feat. Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa
- Three black youths steal from the mob, urging Anthony Quinn to prevent an explosion of ethnic unrest. A brutal excursion through the streets of 70s…
- Live and Let Die (1973)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Roger Moore, Jane Seymour, Yaphet Kotto
- Roger Moore succeeds Sean Connery in the role of 007, with exotic elements "borrowed" from the blaxploitation craze of the time.
The superagent…
- Truck Turner (1974)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks…
- Neo–noir blaxploitation with soul singer Isaac Hayes playing a professional football player who suffers an injury and turns to bounty hunting…
- Friday Foster (1975)
- Dir. Arthur Marks
Feat. Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge…
- Pam Grier plays a fashion photographer leading a double–life as an vigilante, here going up against a racist terror group. The charisma of…
- Blue Collar (1977)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Pryor
- As one might expect from the writer of TAXI DRIVER, dir. Schrader's debut is a gritty, tough–minded drama of macho ethics, set in the grinding…
- Alien (1979)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt…
- One of the best films of modern cinema, this classic combines nail–shredding suspense with H.R. Giger's awesome production design. This film…
- Brubaker (1980)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander…
- Straight–edged prison drama based around the true story of a warden who disguised himself as a convict in order to expose the corruptions of…
- Running Man, The (1987)
- Dir. Paul Michael Glaser
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto…
- Schwarzenegger is in his element in this dystopian fantasy set around a televised game–show. The story has much in common with ROLLERBALL, but…
- Homicide (TV Series) (Life On The Street) (1993-1999)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Richard Belzer, Ned Beatty, Yaphet Kotto…
- Award–winning cop drama, from the creator of THE WIRE, centred on a group of homicide detectives investigating grisly crimes on the tough…
- Puppet Masters, The (1994)
- Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner…
- Sci–fi based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel of the same name, about an alien invasion in rural Iowa.
When a mysterious spacecraft…
- Two If by Sea (1996)
- Dir. Bill Bennett
Feat. Denis Leary, Sandra Bullock, Stephen Dillane…
- Petty thieves Denis Leary and Sandra Bullock are a seven year item who plan to settle down after one final heist of a valuable painting. But with…
- Homicide - The Movie (1996)
- Dir. Jean De Segonzac
Feat. Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer…
- A special movie–length episode of the cult TV crime series "Homicide – Life on the Streets", which was probably the grittiest and…