Michael Jeter

He is survived by his partner, Sean Blue. He continues to work on screen, most recently in Wondrous Oblivion (2003). As of 2004 the cause of death has yet to be determined. 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). He had been thought to be in good health, but was found dead in his home in Los Angeles, California. 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). When he was diagnosed with HIV, he discussed it openly at a time when there was still much unreasoned fear about the disease. 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.

He was open about his troubles with drug and alcohol addiction, and for a time decided to retire from entertainment, but was eventually enticed back with roles on television and in movies. 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. His woebegone look, extreme flexibility and high energy led Tommy Tune to cast him in the Off-Broadway Cloud 9 and, on Broadway, in a memorable role in the musical Grand Hotel, for which he won a Tony Award in 1990. where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He pursued his initial stage career in Baltimore, Maryland, as he had heard it was hard to get work in New York without an equity card. As a teenager he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada and by the 1970s they had moved to the U.S. Born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, Jeter was a student at Memphis State University when his interests changed from medicine to acting. 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.

Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 - March 30, 2003) was a United States actor. Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK) is a British born, American actor. Waterworld. Wondrous Oblivion (2003). The Boys Next Door. The Core (2003). Dead Bang. Cider House Rules (1999).

The Polar Express (to be released posthumously.). A Life Less Ordinary (1997). Mouse Hunt. Black and White (1996). The Money Pit. Get Shorty (1996). Zelig. Malcolm X (1992).

Ragtime. Salute of the Jugger (1990). Hair. More American Graffitti (1979). Patch Adams. Find the Lady (1976). Jakob the Liar.

The Fisher King. Jurassic Park III. The Green Mile. Open Range.

Taken. From Here to Eternity. Hothouse. Noodle's Brother, Mr. Noodle".

Sesame Street: as Elmo's friend "Mr. Gypsy (1993 TV version). Evening Shade. Grand Hotel (Tony award for his portrayal of Otto Kringelein, a dying man with a thirst for life, his song "We'll Take a Glass Together" was revelatory.).

Cloud 9. Point. R. G.