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    Austin Stoker

    1943-10-07 (81 years old) in Trinidad, West Indies

    ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Austin Stoker (October 7, 1930 – October 7, 2022) was a Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre. Stoker was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on October 7, 1930. He started his career on stage, including the 1954 Broadway production of Truman Capote's House of Flowers, where he met his future wife, Enid Mosier (acting name Vivian Bonnell). Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby (1974), Combat Cops (1974), and Sheba, Baby (1975), in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Horror High (1974), Airport 1975 (1974), Victory at Entebbe (1976), and the 1977 television mini-series Roots. Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie, Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13. Stoker died of renal failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on October 7, 2022, his 92nd birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Stoker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

    Movies

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    Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
    68 %|Apr 21, 2020
    Documentary
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    3 from Hell
    58 %|Sep 16, 2019
    Horror, Thriller
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    Shhhh
    42 %|Oct 2, 2014
    Horror
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    Machete Joe
    15 %|Jan 29, 2010
    Horror
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    End of an Epic: The Final Battle
    0 %|Nov 4, 2008
    Documentary
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    Big John
    78 %|Dec 11, 2006
    Documentary
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    Mach 2
    47 %|Jan 1, 2001
    Action, Thriller
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    Two Shades of Blue
    30 %|Mar 27, 1999
    Thriller
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    Another Time, Another Place
    100 %|Dec 1, 1989
    Drama, Romance
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    Uninvited
    49 %|Aug 24, 1988
    Horror, Science Fiction
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    Time Walker
    41 %|Nov 1, 1982
    Horror, Science Fiction
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    Terror Among Us
    56 %|Jan 12, 1981
    Thriller, Crime, TV Movie
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    The Man With the Power
    60 %|May 24, 1977
    Science Fiction
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    Victory at Entebbe
    50 %|Dec 13, 1976
    Action, Drama, History, TV Movie
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    Assault on Precinct 13
    72.72999999999999 %|Oct 8, 1976
    Thriller, Action, Crime
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    Riding with Death
    26 %|Jan 1, 1976
    Science Fiction, TV Movie, Action, Thriller
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    Sheba, Baby
    57 %|Mar 26, 1975
    Action, Drama, Thriller
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    Abby
    55 %|Dec 25, 1974
    Horror
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    Airport 1975
    57 %|Oct 18, 1974
    Drama, Thriller, Action
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    The Zebra Killer
    48 %|Jul 1, 1974
    Action, Crime
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    Horror High
    57 %|Sep 20, 1973
    Horror, Science Fiction
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    Battle for the Planet of the Apes
    57.11 %|Jun 15, 1973
    Action, Science Fiction
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    The Aquarians
    60 %|Oct 24, 1970
    Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller, TV Movie
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    Descention
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Horror

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    The Wild Thornberrys
    68 %|Sep 1, 1998
    Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Kids, Family
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    Airwolf
    75 %|Jan 22, 1984
    Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    Falcon Crest
    56 %|Dec 4, 1981
    Soap, Drama
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    The Incredible Hulk
    72 %|Nov 4, 1977
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
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    Return to the Planet of the Apes
    66 %|Sep 6, 1975
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation
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    S.W.A.T.
    70 %|Feb 24, 1975
    Action & Adventure, Drama
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    The Six Million Dollar Man
    72.32000000000001 %|Jan 18, 1974
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
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    The Six Million Dollar Man
    72.32000000000001 %|Jan 18, 1974
    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
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    Kojak
    69 %|Oct 24, 1973
    Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery
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    Monty Nash
    55 %|Sep 17, 1971
    Crime, Mystery
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    Love, American Style
    58 %|Sep 29, 1969
    Comedy