Louis Gossett Jr., Award-Winning Actor in ‘Roots’ and ‘An Officer and a Gentleman,’ Dies at 87 The Brooklyn native was the first Black man to win an Oscar for best supporting actor.

Louis Gossett Jr., commanding actor of TV and film, dies at 87. He won an Oscar playing a Marine drill instructor in ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and an Emmy as a wise old enslaved person in ...

Louis Gossett Jr., the 'An Officer and a Gentleman' actor who became first Black man to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, has died at the age of 87.

Louis Gossett Jr., who was the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1982 romantic drama 'An Officer and a Gentleman,' has died.

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Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries "Roots," has died.

The Oscar-winning ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ actor died March 29 Taylor Hill/Getty Louis Gossett Jr.’s cause of death has been revealed. The Oscar-winning An Officer and a Gentleman star ...

Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.

Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in 1982's "An Officer and a Gentleman," died at 87.

Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.

Louis Gossett Jr., the celebrated An Officer and a Gentleman actor who became the first Black man to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, has died at the age of 87. “It is with our heartfelt ...

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 Friday without revealing the cause of death.