Roundtree, Richard, 1942-

found: African American National Biography, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Roundtree, Richard; actor, model; born 09 July 1942 in New Rochelle, New York, United States; enrolled at Southern Illinois University (1961); returned to New York, began acting lessons, joined the Negro Ensemble Company (1967-1969); was selected to portray private detective John Shaft in the movie Shaft (1971), Shaft's Big Score (1972) and Shaft in Africa (1973); worked mostly in small television roles and minor films (1980s); appeared in ABC's Roots (1977), Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored (1996), CBS's Having Our Say (1999), John Singleton's remake of Shaft (2000), Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, and Heroes)