An unofficial count of the audience at a “Shaft” press preview found 14 white people in the (full) theater, all of whom were in rows reserved for press. In fact, most of the people in the press rows ...

Richard Roundtree, the actor best known for playing the title role in the iconic Shaft films, has died after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer earlier this year. He was 81. ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Gordon Parks’ blaxploitation classic “Shaft,” released nationwide on July 2, 1971, celebrates its 50th anniversary, a proper ...

Richard Roundtree, the actor best known for playing John Shaft across multiple Shaft projects, has died from pancreatic cancer at age 81. His agent Patrick McMinn confirmed the news to EW, stating, ...

As a preteen growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey, Odie Henderson saw a tremendous number of wildly inappropriate movies. Take age 4, an especially big, bad year for Henderson and inarguably too ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now, don’t get me wrong. John Shaft didn’t wear a cape or anything like that. But, here was a ...

Richard Roundtree, who played one of the first Black action heroes in the blaxploitation '70s era of film, died at 81 of pancreatic cancer on Tuesday in his Los Angeles home, his manager said. The ...

Richard Roundtree, an icon of Blaxploitation film who starred as detective John Shaft in Gordon Parks’ 1971 action thriller, died Tuesday afternoon after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was ...

Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several "Shaft" films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. He was 81. Roundtree's longtime manager, ...