Delroy Lindo

He continues to work on screen, most recently in Wondrous Oblivion (2003). He died of lung cancer at Falmouth, Maine. Among the films he has starred in have been Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty, Clockers, Feeling Minnesota, and as the baseball player Satchel Paige in Black and White (1996). Merrill was married twice, first to Barbara Leeds and then to Bette Davis. It was director Spike Lee who provided the boost Lindo's career needed, even though he had turned down a role in Do the Right Thing to act alongside Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen in the cult sci-fi movie Salute of the Jugger (1990), and cast him as Woody Carmichael in the comedy Crooklyn (1994). His television career was equally routine: None of his series (which included Then Came Bronson and Young Doctor Kildare) lasted more than a season. In 1982, he debuted on Broadway in Master Harold and the Boys directed by the play's author Athol Fugard and by 1988, Lindo earned a Tony nomination for his portayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turner's Come and Gone. His film career began promisingly, with roles in films like Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and All About Eve (1950), but the bulk of his screen appearances were as second- or third-billed characters in formulaic Westerns, war movies, and medical dramas.

His movie debut came in 1976 with the British comedy Find the Lady (1976) followed by two other roles in films such as that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffitti (1979) when he quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre production. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he began acting in 1944, while still in the United States Army. where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. film and television actor whose credits included more than fifty feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of TV guest appearances. As a teenager he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada and by the 1970s they had moved to the U.S. S. The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was born and raised in Lewisham, England, where at age 5 on the strength of the nativity plays he appeared in became a stage actor. Gary Merrill (August 2, 1915 - March 5, 1990) was a U.

Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British born, American actor. Wondrous Oblivion (2003). The Core (2003). Cider House Rules (1999).

A Life Less Ordinary (1997). Black and White (1996). Get Shorty (1996). Malcolm X (1992).

Salute of the Jugger (1990). More American Graffitti (1979). Find the Lady (1976).