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Kotto has been married thrice, his first marriage was to a German immigrant, Rita Ingrid Dittman, whom he married in 1959 and had three children together whose names have not been disclosed. Kotto portrayed the role of Lieutenant Al Giardello in the long-running television series Homicide: Life on the Street from 1993-1999 through which he gained enough recognition.

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Kotto’s other notable work was seen in the movie The Running Man, action-comedy Midnight Run which also starred Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin.

In 1983, Kotto started as an autoworker in the 1978 film Blue Collar and the same following year he started off as Parker in the scientific-horror film Alien, through which he received a lot of recognition.Īround the same, he played a supporting role in the 1980 drama Brubaker and guest-starred in an episode of The A-Team. Subsequently, he played roles in Across 110th Street, Truck Turner, and the television film Raid on Entebbe. Then in 1973 he was seen on the sets of Live and Let Die where he played James Bond villain, Mr. In 1963, he made his film debut aged 23 in 4 for Texas and played a supporting role in the caper film The Thomas Crown Affair. Soon he began acting on Broadway where he was on many productions one of them being Great White Hope.

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Kotto’s career started off when he was 19, that is when he made his professional debut in Othello. He was also a member of Actors Studio in New York. His parents got divorced when he was only 3 years old and when his mother re-married, he had three had-sisters named Antoinette Gilyard, sisters Deborah, and younger sister Leontine Gilyard.īy the time Kotto turned 16, he was already enrolled in an acting school called the Actors Mobile Theatre Studio and by the time he was 19, Kotto made his professional debut. His mother was a nurse and a U.S Army officer and his father, whose original name according to Kotto is Njoki Manga Bell, was a business from Cameroon who immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Kotto on November 15, 1939, in New York City, New York, United States to mother Gladys Marie and father Avraham Kotto.

Yaphet Frederick Kotto was born as Fredrick S. Yaphet died on March 15, 2021, in the Philippines, the cause of death remaining unknown. Yaphet Frederick Kotto was an American actor who was famously known for starring as Lieutenant Al Giardello in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street and horror film Alien as Parker, the chief engineer.