Shaft is a series of TV movies that aired along with Hawkins during 1973-74 television season on The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies. The series was based on three films beginning with Shaft, and ...
“Shaft,” starring Richard Roundtree, created a template for Black action protagonists onscreen. By Elena Bergeron As unthinkable as it now seems, the role of John Shaft, paragon of movie star Black ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...