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Roger e. mosley3/22/2023 ![]() ![]() I will care for mommy, your love of almost 60 years. It is time to celebrate the legacy he left for us all. “He would HATE any crying done in his name. “We could never mourn such an amazing man,” his daughter Ch-a wrote on Facebook. But producers wanted a person of color for the main cast, which also included Larry Manetti and John Hillerman Selleck suggested Mosley based on a prison film they made together, Terminal Island (1973). He appeared in 158 of Magnum, PI’s 162 episodes, which aired between December 1980 and May 1988.Īccording to Mosley, the white actor Gerald McRaney was set to play the part of TC Calvin, who owned a one-person local helicopter charter and often flew Selleck’s Thomas Magnum around Hawaii for various cases. He studied acting under Raymond St Jacques at the Mafundi Institute, a community arts school in Watts, and made his first television appearance on a 1971 episode of CBS’s Cannon, followed by small roles in The New Centurions and Hickey & Boggs. In The Greatest (1977), the 6ft 2in Mosley played boxer Sonny Liston, who got beat up by Muhammad Ali, playing himself.īorn on 18 December 1938, Roger Earl Mosley grew up in the Imperial Courts project in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, raised by a single mother, Eloise. ![]() Mosley also appeared in several blaxploitation films, including Hit Man (1972), Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973) and Darktown Strutters (1975). Mosley’s most prominent film role was as blues and folk singer Huddie Ledbetter in Gordon Parks’s Leadbelly in 1976, which critic Roger Ebert called in his review “one of the best biographies of a musician I’ve ever seen”. ![]()
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