Austin Stoker, the Trinidadian-American actor from Assault on Precinct 13 and Roots, has died. His spouse Robin Stoker confirmed the actor’s loss of life occurred on Friday, October 7, his 92nd birthday.
Stoker reportedly died peacefully and surrounded by his family members resulting from renal failure. The actor is survived by his spouse of over 40 years, his daughter Tiffany, his son Origen and his two grandsons Marcus and little Austin.
Born and raised in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Stoker started appearing on the age of 11. When he was 16, he joined The Whitehall Players and 4 years later he would journey to NYC when he joined the dance troupe Holder Dance Company.
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Stoker would later be drafted by the U.S. Army and following his service was honorably discharged. He would proceed getting ready himself as an actor and one in all his first tv credit was within the sequence Mod Squad in 1969. He would go on to have tv roles in sequence like (*92*), American Style (1970), Men at Law (1971), Monty Nash (1971), (*92*) Thy Neighbor (1973), McCloud (1974) and Kojak (1974). Stoker would additionally land movie roles in Battle of the Planet of the Apes (1973) and Horror High (1973).
In 1975 he starred reverse Pam Grier within the movie Sheba, Baby. The similar yr he would lend his voice to the Return of the Planet of the Apes animated sequence. The following yr, he would star in one in all his most memorable performances in John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 the place he performed Lt. Ethan Bishop, a cop who was put in command of a decommissioned L.A. police station.
Other tv exhibits Stoker participated in included The Six Million Dollar Man (1975), the 1977 ABC mini-series Roots the place he performed Virgil Harvey, The Incredible Hulk (1979), Lou Grant (1977), Falcon Crest (1989), amongst others.
In the early 90s, he joined the solid of The Bold and the Beautiful the place he portrayed the character of Mitchell Owens. His final appearing credit score is within the 2022 movie Give Till It Hurts the place he performed Reverend Bishop.
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