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#BREAKING NEWS:- Yaphet Kotto, Actor in 'Homicide: Life on the Street,' 'Live and Let Die,' and 'Alien,' Dies at 81 The New Yorker received an Emmy nom for portraying Idi Amin but passed on playing Lando Calrissian and Jean-Luc Picard Yaphet Kotto, the compelling character actor who portrayed police lieutenant Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street, a space traveler in Alien and a supervillain in Live and Let Die, has died. He was 81. In a message posted on Facebook, Kotto's wife, Tessie Sinahon, said that the actor died Monday. “I'm saddened and still in shocked of the passing of my husband Yaphet of 24 years,“ she wrote. A presence at 6-foot-4 and more than 240 pounds in his prime, Kotto also was known for his eerie Emmy-nominated performance as the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in Raid on Entebbe, a 1976 NBC movie. In 1969, the Harlem native stepped in on Broadway for James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope, portraying the bo
