Richard Roundtree, iconic Shaft actor, dead at 81

A dark-complected man with a white beard wearing a hat stands and holds his hands apart in a red carpet photo at an event.

Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several Shaft films beginning in the early 1970s, has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81.

CBC | World News

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